Sponges, anemones, spirographs and many more
Life at sea is much more than fish, algae, octopuses and lobsters, the sea is also the habitat of a great diversity of species, many of which invertebrates that appeared on Earth billions of years ago.
They are organisms whose initial structure has not changed much, and which are easy to confuse with a rock or an inert object, they are however living creatures, often without no defined shape: animals without feet or heads.
Our recommended dive: Illa Messina- Cap de Creus
The Messina Island is a diving point of Cap de Creus of great beauty. From the Island it gradually gets deeper along the walls that create canyons along a sandy bottom at a depth of 30 metres. Throughout the dive we will go from well-lit surface areas to shaded areas and darkness as the light begins to dissipate due to the depth.
Although we categorise it as a single dive, several routes can be taken from the same starting point: to discover the whole seabed surrounding the Messina Island we will have to do a few dives.
The route that we propose follows a channel that creates two rocky formations that come out of the two islets located to the south of the island, the dive descends along the west wall to a depth of 20 metres and continues to the eastern side to visit the deepest part of this channel and finally return to the boat.
It is not an overly difficult dive but the depth and exposure to currents makes it one for divers with an advanced level.
Around Messina Island we’ll find countless nooks and crannies full of encrusted organisms, invertebrates without any feet or heads that live to filter the water and capture the suspended particles in it. It will be in the less illuminated areas of this dive where we will find a true abundance of these organisms.
In addition to organisms without any feet or heads, the Messina Island offers us a large number of interesting species: groupers, predators, corals and gorgonians, the deep blue sea and its special fish as well as fish of a thousand colours and nudibranchs that will make this dive very complete.
Remember that the organisms that live attached to the rocks are usually fragile and have very slow growth rates, for this reason it is highly important not to damage or disturb them with our presence.