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Mallorca, Spain

18 caves · down to 40 m · 11 suitable for an intro team

Cave diving in Mallorca

  • Caves18
  • Max depth40 m
  • For intro teams11
  • Dive centres4
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Fills nearby

  • Fill stationSkualo Porto Cristo1 kmUnknown — ask about fills (air/nitrox); no trimix mentionedRoute ↗
  • Fill stationZOEA Mallorca73 kmNot stated — askRoute ↗
  • Fill stationDive & Fun Font de sa CalaAir, nitrox, O₂, trimix (per its SSI listing); pressure (200/300 bar): askRoute ↗
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Why come here

Cave divers know Mallorca for the long, shallow anchialine caves of its east coast, such as sa Gleda, one of the longest underwater caves in Europe. Nearly all of them are protected Natura 2000 sites and closed to recreational cave divers: the Balearic government only grants access for scientific work or on behalf of a public administration, and this is enforced. What you can dive are sea caves with air chambers at Dragonera, Cala Ratjada, Font de sa Cala and Formentor, with a dive centre and mostly at open water or cavern level. The Dragonera and Llevant marine reserves require a permit and at least 25 logged dives. Porto Cristo is the base.

Don't miss

  • Cueva de la Ventana: a tube leads up to a pitch-dark lake in an air chamber, from where you leave your gear and climb to the 'window', about 10 m above the sea.
  • Cave of Jeronimo (Jeroni): from the entrance you ascend to an inner lake with an air chamber, usually without current and with 10–30 m visibility.
  • La Catedral (Font de sa Cala): a large entrance and cavern with two branching passages, one of which leads past a few thermoclines to a chamber where you can surface.
  • Cueva de Sa Madona: a large cave under the cliff with a statue of the Madonna, two air pockets and a halocline and thermocline inside.

On a rest day

  • Coves del Drac (Caves of Drach): The show cave in Porto Cristo itself, with the underground Lake Martel.
  • Coves d'Artà (Caves of Artà): A show cave entered from a cliff above the sea near Canyamel, with a stalagmite about 25 m tall.
  • Serra de Tramuntana: The mountains of the northwest coast, listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage cultural landscape.

All 18 caves

Configuration
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6 closed not shown ·

SiteMax depth
Arabica CaveBackmount · Cavern24 m
Baile de las Brujas (Dance of the Witches, Font de sa Cala)Backmount · Open water / no overhead17 m
Cala sa Nau (Mariengrotte)Backmount · Open water / no overhead18 m
Cap des FreuBackmount · Cavern40 m
La Catedral (Font de sa Cala)Backmount · Cavern–
Cave of Jeronimo (Jeroni)Backmount · Open water / no overhead30 m
Cueva de la VentanaBackmount · Cavern22 m
Cueva de Sa MadonaBackmount · Open water / no overhead25 m
Cueva del Raya (Font de sa Cala)Backmount · Full cave–
Es Caló des MonjoBackmount · Open water / no overhead18 m
Plaza de Torres (Font de sa Cala)Backmount · Cavern14 m
Skylight Cave (Cala Bona)Backmount · Open water / no overhead26 m

Certification requirements, configurations and trimix depths are estimates for planning. Always check them locally and dive within your training.

Map

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Dive centres and fill stations

4 dive centres, fill stations and instructors

  • Fill station

    Skualo Porto Cristo

    Passeig des Cap des Toll 11, 07680 Porto Cristo

    Fills
    Unknown — ask about fills · Ask
    Website ↗Route ↗

  • Dive centre

    Technical Diving Mallorca

    Palma (no fixed base; pin: city centre)

    Training
    Cavern, Intro to cave · TDI
    Website ↗Route ↗

  • Fill station

    ZOEA Mallorca

    Club Nàutic Santa Ponsa, Santa Ponsa (also Via Creu 46, 07180, Palma)

    Fills
    Not stated — ask · 1 Apr–31 Oct daily
    Website ↗Route ↗

  • Dive centre

    Dive & Fun Font de sa Cala

    Carretera de sa Font de sa Cala 48, 07589 Capdepera (SSI listing: Avda. de Canyamel s/n, Font de sa Cala)

    Fills
    Air, nitrox, O₂, trimix · Daily 9:00–18:00
    Training
    Sidemount · SSI
    Guided dives
    La Catedral (Font de sa Cala), Cap des Freu, Cueva del Raya (Font de sa Cala), Baile de las Brujas (Dance of the Witches, Font de sa Cala)
    Website ↗Route ↗

Order: partners first, clearly marked as partner; then dive centres by distance from Porto Cristo and independent instructors by name. Not a recommendation: check what they offer yourself.

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Where to stay

Find a place near Porto Cristo, Portocolom, Cala Millor, Cala Ratjada, Port de Pollença, Santa Ponsa, Sant Elm

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Practical info: rules, fills and emergency numbers

Emergencies

  • 112 (medical 061). Hyperbaric chamber: MEDISUB, Clínica Juaneda, C/ Company 30 / Son Espanyolet 55, 07014 Palma — the only multiplace chamber in the Balearics, linked to 061/112; MEDISUB office +34 971 731 647 (no direct 24/7 number confirmed: call 112). DAN Europe +39 06 4211 5685.

Access and rules

  • Permits: 30 of the Balearics' >7,000 catalogued caves are ZEC (Natura 2000, Decreto 14/2015), incl. sa Gleda, Cova des Coll, Pirata, Pont, Cova des Drac de Cala Santanyí, Cova dels Ases, Cova d'en Bessó (Genovesa), Pas de Vallgornera, Cova del Dimoni and Cova dels Estudiants. No access is granted to recreational cave divers; permits only for scientific work (institution/university) or on behalf of a public administration. Some entrances are closed off. These are extremely fragile habitats, where vandalism and the destruction of formations have happened before.
  • For scientific projects: apply via caib.es ('activitats espeleològiques a les coves ZEC') to the Direcció General de Medi Natural i Gestió Forestal.
  • Rules are enforced: in June 2019 environmental agents reported foreign cave divers who dived Cova des Drac (Santanyí) without a permit. Many entrances are also on private land (owner's consent needed).
  • Federació Balear d'Espeleologia (FBE): federation licence with insurance that also covers cave diving; C/ Uruguai s/n (Velòdrom Illes Balears), Palma; Tue 19:00–20:00; federaciobalear@gmail.com.
  • Marine reserves: Dragonera (permit DG Pesca Sostenible; min. 25 logged dives, ≥1 in the past year; season 1 Apr–30 Nov; max. 12 divers per centre boat) and Llevant de Mallorca–Cala Rajada (permit DG Recursos Pesqueros; min. 25 dives; night dives, shore dives and scooters banned outside the Cala Lliteres and Cala Gat zones). El Toro and the Malgrats islands are marine reserves too; reserves run by the Balearic government need an individual or group permit (caib.es), and in the Nord de Menorca reserve diving inside underwater caves is banned. Dive centres usually hold the permits. Apart from the closed anchialine caves, the east coast (Font de sa Cala, Cala Ratjada, Cala Bona) and the north (Formentor) have many sea caves, caverns and tunnels that dive centres dive guided, from shallow air chambers to the Cueva del Raya, whose deeper part needs cave certification.
  • Cabrera National Park: diving only with a permit requested in advance and in designated zones; show it at the park office in Cabrera harbour before diving.

Water and season

  • Water in the anchialine caves: salt, ~19–20 °C, with strong haloclines in the top ~10 m.

Safety

  • Cave rescues so far were done by Guardia Civil GEAS divers together with FBE cave divers (sa Piqueta 2017, sa Gleda 2022).

Rest day

  • Rest day: boat trip with a swim into the Cova des Coloms sea cave from Porto Cristo (Skualo).

News

News articles that mention one of the caves in this region, collected automatically and not checked by us.

Access and rules change: check what applies locally right before your trip. Source: GDELT Project and the news feeds of diving magazines.

Searched automatically, last on 13 Nov 2026.

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Compiled from web research (Sept 2026): Govern de les Illes Balears (Xarxa Natura 2000, marine reserves), BOE, Papers SEB and Endins (Gràcia et al.), Federació Balear d'Espeleologia, news (Ultima Hora, eldiario.es), dive centres, ActivityFan and wannadive; Govern de les Illes Balears – Servei de Planificació al Medi Natural (message, Oct 2026). Published surveys of the caves appear in the journal Endins (Federació Balear d'Espeleologia); we don't reproduce them. Pins come from OpenStreetMap, Grottocenter/grottomap, Wikipedia and wannadive (for sea caves a boat position); seven sites have no pin yet. The sea caves near Font de sa Cala (Cueva del Raya, Baile de las Brujas, Plaza de Torres) come from the dive-site page of Dive & Fun Font de sa Cala (Oct 2026). ~ = estimate; certification levels and configurations are estimates. Rules change — check locally.