Dive Portugal - Madeira & Porto Santo - 15 Days/14 Nights

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Dive Portugal - Madeira & Porto Santo - 15 Days/14 Nights

We are now offering great trips to Portugal. Visit Lisbon, Madeira, and the Azores. Our trips are fully adaptable to fit your desires. Experience an amazing country, culture, fabulous food, friendly people, and amazing dives.

2500 € per person
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Stay and dive in Madeira, the World Travel Awards eight times elected "World's Leading Island Destination". Here you will be able to dive into one of the most privileged places in Europe to practice this sport. The temperate and crystalline waters of Madeira make it possible to dive into its natural reserves and to observe numerous species such as cnidarians like anemones, black corals, fish like groupers, moray eels, stingrays, or – if you're lucky – even sea lions, the monk seals, the rarest in the world.

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Info weather conditions

In the summer, the ambient temperature is around 22.2° C and drops to 15.9° C in winter, which means there are rarely very high or very low temperatures. At sea, the temperature varies between 25ºC and 15ºC throughout the year.
Water temperatures: from 16 to 22 C;
Air temperatures: 15 to 25 C.

Day 1 – Madeira, Funchal; After a flight over the Atlantic Ocean, you will arrive at Madeira (FNC) at Cristiano Ronaldo Airport. Your driver will be waiting to take you to the Funchal Harbour. There you will get on the Ferry and sail to Porto Santo Island.

Two hours and a half later, you will arrive at the Porto Santo island, where you'll stay and dive for the next six days.

When you arrive, a driver will be waiting to take you to your hotel.

Days 2 to 6 – Porto Santo; For the next five days, you will have the immense pleasure of diving into the beautiful and crystalline waters offshore Porto Santo. For those who love diving, the sea of Porto Santo hides charms that you will not want to miss.

One of the most looked for dive spots in Porto Santo is "Madeirense".

A container ship that has been part of the history of Madeira's maritime transport and a war vessel awaits you a few meters deep, becoming actual artificial reefs where you can get in and out of its cabins, surrounded by thousands of fish. It is said that it's a unique spot to dive.

Having all sorts of natural dive spots to visit, Porto Santo is also home to the Corveta Pereira d'Eça. For those who like shipwrecks, Porto Santo will be a 100/100 diving location. But there are other types of dives you will love.

Another one is called "Âncoras" (translated to English, Anchors) due to abandoned local fisher boat anchors.

The anchor buoy is at 6mts depth. It is an ideal dive site for Discover Scuba Divers, beginners, check dives and snorkelling. Like most Porto Santo dive sites, this site is inside of the golden breams protected marine reserve with an abundant fish life all along the southern edge of the Ilheu de Cima, which drops right into the sea with no beaches.

As our most frequented dive site, the fish are very used to divers and usually accompany us throughout the dive. Expect to see golden breams, parrotfish, sea bream, spider crabs, the occasional moray or octopus, and triggerfish—a very relaxing dive.

Day 7 – Madeira, Funchal; The driver will pick you up at your hotel and drive you to the harbour. Let's set sail to Madeira Island, where you'll check-in for the rest of your trip and the best dives in Madeira.

Days 8 and 9 – Santa Cruz; The first two days of diving will continue to surprise you. Diving the Madeira waters from Santa Cruz is the right compromise for someone discovering this paradise.

Here you will be able to dive into one of the most privileged places in the world to practice this sport. The temperate and crystalline waters of Madeira make it possible to dive into its natural reserves and to observe numerous species such as cnidarians like anemones, black corals, fish like groupers, moray eels, stingrays, and – if you're lucky – even sea lions, the monk seals, the rarest in the world.

Garajau, a National Park, one of many Natural Reserves in Madeira, is a fantastic and guaranteed great dive.

Warm and crystalline waters welcome you to this stunning diving location. There are several diving spots in the Reserve. In this one, the main highlight is the large shoals of fish of different species, diving real close for your amusement.

The bottom is sand and rolled stones. In some places, we find giant rock formations that form "chimneys", and it is possible to pass through them. We can observe large schools of Salemas, Seabreams, Bicudas and sometimes some Amberjacks that accompany us during the ascent.


Day 10 – Madeira; Today is your first topside program. What's incredible about this trip is that you have plenty of diving time, but you will also spend some hours visiting the island. Maybe your attitude towards these trips is "I don't want to visit; I want to dive"? Well, you will think differently after this one.

Days 11 to 13 – Santa Cruz; Three more days diving, six other fantastic dive spots to visit. Maybe this will be one of them:

You can go for some distinct immersions at the Roca Mar dive spot, and depending on where you start the dive, you'll fall to different depths. However, the maximum is 24 meters. It is located in the coastal area of Caniço de Baixo, 10 meters from the adjacent bathing area to the Hotel Roca Mar. Usually, we start at 6 meters deep, and we find a tunnel that crosses the pier to access the bathing area, from one side to the other.

It is the right spot for OWD and AOWD divers, with plateaus and walls, where we can see lots of sea life like morays eels, anemones, shrimps and much more.

Day 14 – Madeira; They say everything good comes to an end.