Ships died, reefs were born

The waters here are so clear that if you fly over them on a sunny day you can catch a glimpse of the two sunken ships south of the harbour that delights divers.

The M/V Madeirense, part of the Portuguese maritime transport history, and General Pereira d'Eça corvette that travelled the waters as a military vessel. Dive in. Explore. Pass through the dining rooms, offices, cabins, the command bridges, the doors where so many stories have come and gone over the decades. Tell yours too, for a moment at a depth of just over twenty metres, take a photo with the shoals that seem to play with visitors and at the same time invite them to visit their quarters.

A popular destination for many amateur divers who visit our sea year after year, the artificial reef, begun in 2000 and complemented in 2016, proves that in nature nothing is lost, everything is transformed.