Azores
Gruta dos Camarões (Monte da Guia, Faial)
- Max depth40 m
- CertificationIntro to cave
- Water temperature≈ 14–22 °C, varies with the seasonestimated, no reports yet
- SpecialExperienced divers
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The dive
Through a crack in the slope you swim into a high, narrow corridor that opens after about 25 m into a big cavern.
Profile and sections
Through a crack in the slope you swim into a high, narrow corridor that opens after about 25 m into a big cavern. There you see large conger eels among clouds of narwal shrimp, small nudibranchs and sometimes large almaco jacks (Seriola rivoliana). The cavern has an air pocket, but because of the depth you can only surface there with technical equipment. After the cave you climb the wall on the left to a reef of 8–10 m.
The tourism board calls this one of the best cave dives in the Azores; the name means 'cave of the shrimps'.
Practical: Dive Azores goes there from Horta marina. The site lies in the Monte da Guia marine reserve.
- Depth and profile
- Plan for 40 m: Dive Azores gives 5–40 m for the site, with the cave penetration at 25–30 m. The tourism board puts the crack-shaped entrance at 35 m (max 35 m, average 28 m). A corridor ~1 m wide and ~25 m long leads to a big cavern with an air pocket; on the way back decompression stops along a reef of 8–10 m.
- Configuration
- High, narrow corridor ~1 m wide: sidemount gives the most room, backmount is tight (estimate). Deep, with deco: plan gas and stages accordingly.
- DPV: Not DPV-suitable (estimate)
- Short, narrow corridor to one cavern — not a scooter dive.
Who can dive where
- At least Intro to cave
- Configurations: Backmount / twinset / Sidemount / CCR / Small cylinders / no-mount (speleo sumps)
- Goes down to 40 m (trimix or deco may be needed)
- Experienced divers only
This is how the planner decides who in your team may dive this cave. Rules your own trip adds (organizer, a mail, the AI) show with your trip.
How to get there
Boat dive, ten minutes from Horta harbour, on the slope of Monte da Guia. Dive Azores dives here.
Around Gruta dos Camarões (Monte da Guia, Faial)
FillsNo fill station known nearby
Other sites1 within 1 km
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