• CALA GRANDE •

CALA GRANDE

Depth: 3-20 metres

Typology: face/landslide

Degree of Difficulty: easy

Current: absent

Located along the western side of the Palmaria Island, Cala Grande is easily identifiable because, as the name says it all, it’s the biggest bight hosted by this falaise. Depth, in this area, is within a dozen of metres, whereas it increases when departing from the coast. The development of this bottom is excellent for beginners who want to further their experience, as the accentuated indentation almost always succeeds in delivering a calm sea without any strong currents. Nevertheless this is also a dive site where enthusiast cave dive experts face darker tunnels within which they can observe the tipycal cave organisms. Two of these caves are practically living opposite one another, but they entirely differ due to their submarine development. One of them is less deep, its entrance is at four/five metres of depth; it’s a dark and suggestive cave, ideal for underwater speleology enthusiasts. Within the corners, where light is reduced to its minimum, hundreds of small Palaemon serratus shrimps swim and move at ease, but as soon as the artificial light beam embraces them all, they start scattering around in an untidy and frenetic way. The second cave (called the Vulcanic Cave), with a wider entrance but set at six/seven metres of depth, allows simultaneous penetration to more divers plus this dive is enlivened by a couple of ramifications. This exploration starts from the wide semi-submerged vault; the aerial cave side can be visited by boat while the submerged one leads to a first small area characterized by a pebbly bottom where it’s advisable to stop and admire the concretions adorning these faces. Carrying on, this dive is never completely dark; we’re going up by a metre and a half from the surface to then find ourselves again in the open water inside the bay.

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