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Snorkeling Tour In the bay of Santa Maria: Explore Sunken Shipwrecks and Diverse Marine Life
3.9
36 Ratings
Santa Maria
Embark on a thrilling snorkeling tour in the bay of Santa Maria and discover sunken shipwrecks and a diverse array of marine life. Swim alongside schools of soldier fish, snappers, parrot fish, and more!
Embark on a thrilling snorkeling tour in the bay of Santa Maria and discover sunken shipwrecks and a diverse array of marine life. Swim alongside schools of soldier fish, snappers, parrot fish, and more!
Duration:
2 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- H3WQ+RPX - The warm waters surrounding Sal are home to a fascinating array of marine life
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making it nothing short of snorkelling heaven.
If you have never tried snorkelling before, then this the ideal chance. Head to the dive centre and you’ll be greeted by friendly guides who’ll give you a quick intro to all the essentials.
Snorkelling around…
- H3WQ+RPX - The warm waters surrounding Sal are home to a fascinating array of marine life
-
making it nothing short of snorkelling heaven.
If you have never tried snorkelling before, then this the ideal chance. Head to the dive centre and you’ll be greeted by friendly guides who’ll give you a quick intro to all the essentials.
Snorkelling around Sal is a wonderful way to explore the underwater world, here we are lucky enough to have shallow reefs and weck with an abundance of marine life, including tropical and Mediterranean fish, rays, turtles, moray eels and many more.The snorkel points are about 5/10min away and you will spend about 45min in the water. The guide is a diving instructor and will be with you in the water the whole time to offer assistance as well as guide you.
We visit a multilevel reef 3m to 6m deep at the end of the reef there is a shallow shipwreck, Bolama or more commonly known as Calderinhia due to the big boiler still left behind. Schools of soldier fish and snappers like to swim around it and are regularly found here in addition to parrot fish, trumpet fish sea turtles and many others.
What's Included
- Use of snorkeling equipment
- Use of snorkeling equipment
What's Not Included
- Snacks
- Bottled water
- Snacks
- Bottled water
Additional Information
A few hundred meters off the coast of Santa Maria Bay, there exists a layered reef that varies in depth from 3m to 8m. This range of depth provides ideal conditions for marine creatures to thrive and adjust to different visibility conditions. The reef ends with a shallow shipwreck, more popularly known as Calderinhia, but also referred to as Bolama,…
A few hundred meters off the coast of Santa Maria Bay, there exists a layered reef that varies in depth from 3m to 8m. This range of depth provides ideal conditions for marine creatures to thrive and adjust to different visibility conditions. The reef ends with a shallow shipwreck, more popularly known as Calderinhia, but also referred to as Bolama, named after the large boiler that remains on the site. You can often spot shoals of soldier fish and snappers swimming about, with the occasional sightings of parrot fish, trumpet fish and numerous other marine species.
- 8 years old minimum age
Location
H3WQ+RPX
Meeting point in Aquarium - dive center
Meeting point in Farol - dive center
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
3.9
(36 Ratings)
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Michelle_j
Dec 29, 2024
Great snorkelling activity - Found the company very professional. Good safety brief before the start of the activity. Equipment provided. It’s only a short boat ride out to the location for snorkelling. We saw plenty of fish! I could have stayed snorkelling all day, fab activity!
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Mischi
Aug 17, 2024
Snorkeling in the sea off Santa Maria - Wonderfully organized, nice guides. Countless fish and also turtles seen 🤩. Would do it again immediately.
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Leilah_hillman
Sep 30, 2024
Pretty good! - It was a decent activity. A bit disorganized but communication with the provider was excellent. The wreck site was beat and there were turtles!
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705miguelangelr
Sep 3, 2024
All right, a little but... - Very good care, our Guide took care of taking the child caught in the lifeguard to facilitate the snorkeling with the mask.If I have to put a but the conditions were not good, there were waves of more than 2 meters and that made some dizzy and more complicated to snorkel, we still got to see a turtle that was the target in addition to many fish.
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Stay534772
Jun 26, 2024
Snorkeling with Jorge - Experience completely recommended! We did Snorkeling with Jorge (TOP monitor), knew perfectly the environment and made great photos. To give it a point of improvement, we were too big a group and it loses a bit of charm the experience.
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Patricktvt
Aug 29, 2024
Some mixed feelings - I booked a snorkeling trip. The equipment was provided, the transfer from the hotel was included. Unfortunately, there was no way to try on the glasses beforehand. As a result, water penetrated my glasses throughout the tour. A guide briefly tried to help, but then didn't take any further interest in it. Unfortunately, the group was quite large, so you quickly lost track of where the guide was. The sea was also quite strong that day. Unfortunately, there was no check at any time if something was wrong with someone. I would call myself a really good swimmer, but the whole thing was already challenging for me and some other participants. But there were turtles to see in the wild, which compensated for some.
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P2062yrjeanlucm
Jan 10, 2025
Not happy at all. - Disastrous experience on Thursday, December 26, 2024. We were 18 Frenchmen to board the zodiac at 3pm to do SNORKELING (PMT snorkeling). It was programmed an hour in the water with a visit to a shipwreck and the turtle site. The welcome was made by a person who spoke good French. Then it was a guide who took us in Zodiac. Arriving at the site, the guide launched and left after 10 minutes. We went at the whim of the current on blind spots. There are questions about security, given that of the 18 people there were children. After 20 minutes the supervisors signaled us back to the boat. That’s when the guide blew his head off by explaining that we had not followed the instructions, in approximate English, and that we were not going to the turtle site. We understood this directive when we came back to the boat point. The whole group was very disappointed. What’s more, at 38 € per person, it’s expensive to go around Zodiac because we get to almost 700 € for the group in 30 minutes. Arriving at the hotel we related this event to the manager of the dive sector who apparently had already echoes on the behavior of this guide. What a pity, that this week of vacation is marred by this unfortunate experience, and I invite the management of this diving club to direct this guide to a function that will be more adapted to his behavior, a potential Darth Vader!
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53killk
Dec 26, 2024
Avoid snorkeling, the times announced in the water are not respected and the supervision is very limited - Do not take the snorkeling activity with this company, they take too many people, so not enough supervisory staff (2 for 20 people) and after 30 minutes (instead of an hour) they stop the activity.
Tourist factory to avoid absolutely.
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Far_n_wide_back
Aug 29, 2024
Shame, was expecting a lot more….. - You (a big group) are literally given an old snorkel and some flippers and put in a wetsuit with a life jacket and then marched down the seafront for half a mile, loaded onto a boat and then told to jump off out at sea in big waves. You swim about a bit and then you’re told to get back on the boat. Your taken back to a beach nearby and told to get off the boat and walk another half mile back to the shop.
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Leschrek
Aug 19, 2024
Very bad experience - Forgot us at the hotel - Not a reliable local provider. They simply forgot to pick us at the hotel RIU despite a proper reservation made and paid a few days ago.
Be careful when you book with them or via a travel tour like Luxair. They are not professionnal.
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