Arrecifal Centro de Buceo | Dive Center
C. la Orchilla, 30, 38917 La Restinga, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, La Restinga, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, ESP
Informazioni sul Centro
Arrecifal Centro de Buceo, situato a La Restinga, El Hierro, offre esperienze subacquee immersive nel Mar de las Calmas. Certificato PADI e SSI, il centro propone corsi per tutti i livelli, dal Discover Scuba Diving all'Instructor Development Course, includendo specialità come Boat Diving e Night Diving. I subacquei possono esplorare oltre 20 siti d'immersione, raggiungibili in massimo 20 minuti di barca, godendo di visibilità eccezionali fino a 40 metri e paesaggi vulcanici sottomarini unici.
Le strutture di Arrecifal includono spogliatoi, un negozio di articoli subacquei, noleggio attrezzatura, aule per la formazione e ricariche d'aria (incluso nitrox). Il centro dispone di una flotta di imbarcazioni ideale per escursioni giornaliere. Il team multilingue parla spagnolo, inglese, francese, tedesco, italiano, portoghese, russo e ucraino, garantendo una comunicazione fluida per i clienti internazionali.
Arrecifal Centro de Buceo è impegnato nella sostenibilità, riflettendo lo spirito ecologico di El Hierro. La riserva marina protegge una biodiversità eccezionale, arricchita dalle eruzioni vulcaniche del 2011, creando un ambiente sottomarino senza pari per le immersioni. Il centro si distingue per la sua professionalità, sicurezza e dedizione, offrendo non solo immersioni ma anche supporto logistico ai suoi visitatori.
Corsi Disponibili
8 cursosOpen Water Diver
Corso di certificazione subacquea per principianti. Impara le tecniche fondamentali dell'immersione in acque libere. Include teoria, pratica in acque confinate e immersioni in acque libere.
BATTESIMO
Corso di battesimo tenuto da istruttori certificati PADI.
AVANZATO
Migliora le tue abilità subacquee con immersioni avventurose. Include immersioni profonde e navigazione subacquea. Perfette per ampliare la tua esperienza.
Nitrox
Corso di specialità per imparare a immergersi con miscele di aria arricchita fino al 40% di ossigeno, consentendo di aumentare i tempi di fondo e i margini di sicurezza.
Immersioni PROFONDE
Impara a immergerti in sicurezza tra i 18 e i 40 metri di profondità, scoprendo i limiti delle immersioni senza decompressione e le tecniche necessarie per esplorare le profondità.
REACT RIGHT
Corso di primo soccorso e emergenza per agire come primo soccorritore in caso di emergenza medica, inclusa RCP e somministrazione di ossigeno.
DIVEMASTER
Qualifica che riconosce le conoscenze e la formazione necessarie per assistere gli istruttori e pianificare e guidare immersioni.
Stress & Rescue
The SSI Diver Stress and Rescue course at Arrecifal runs four days and is consistently described by SSI instructors as the most demanding course in the recreational programme — technically, physically, and mentally. The course covers self-rescue, recognising and managing stress in other divers, emergency equipment handling, rescuing a panicked diver, and managing an unconscious diver in the water. None of this is theoretical comfort: it's practised repeatedly in scenarios until the responses become instinctive. The four-day duration reflects how much ground the course covers and how much repetition is built into the training. Stress and rescue skills degrade without practice, and the course is designed to install habits under pressure rather than knowledge for an exam. Arrecifal's instructors are the same multilingual certified professionals who guide recreational dives — they know the local conditions and can run scenarios that are grounded in what actually happens on El Hierro's dive sites. A prerequisite for certification is current first aid and CPR training, no older than two years at the point of card issuance. If you don't hold that certification, Arrecifal offers the React Right course (one day) which can be completed back-to-back with the Stress and Rescue programme. The two together run five days total and leave you with both certifications. Minimum age is 12 years. The Stress and Rescue certification is a prerequisite for the Divemaster programme, so divers heading toward a professional qualification will need it in any case. For recreational divers with no professional aspirations, the course changes how you dive — the awareness of your buddy, of group dynamics, of early signs of problems — in ways that make every dive after it more considered.
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No. The Bautismo (intro dive) is open to anyone from age 10 with no prior experience. It runs from the boat, includes about 20 minutes crossing the Mar de Las Calmas, and is fully supervised by an instructor throughout. Certified divers need a valid certification card, a completed medical questionnaire, and dive insurance — Arrecifal can arrange the insurance for you.
The Mar de Las Calmas Marine Reserve enforces a cap of 10 divers plus guides per site at any one time. Arrecifal keeps to this limit. All dives are guided by multilingual certified instructors — you are not dropped at the site and left to explore alone.
The centre operates in Spanish, English, French, and German. Reviews from guests confirm instruction and guiding in all four languages. The website is fully available in Spanish, English, French, and German.
Water temperature ranges from 17°C in winter to 24°C in summer. A 5mm suit covers the warmer months; a 7mm is recommended in winter. Arrecifal has both thicknesses in their rental fleet, along with thermal undersuits and hoods for the colder periods. Full rental equipment is available — wetsuits, BCDs, regulators, computers, tanks — all maintained to current standards.
Yes, and that's the point. After booking any SSI course, Arrecifal sends a personal link through SSI to your digital manual. You complete the theory at home, at your own pace, before travelling. Once in La Restinga, all your time goes to in-water sessions. The online theory access is included in the course price — nothing extra to buy.
Yes. La Restinga has one hotel; almost everything else is apartments, and the centre can guide you to options and make the reservation. For car rental they work with a local company — cars can be picked up at Valverde Airport or at the La Estaca ferry terminal. Accommodation fills fast in high season and on long weekends, so they recommend booking well in advance.
The Mar de Las Calmas reserve sits at the edge of a steeply dropping continental shelf, which draws oceanic species close to shore. Devil rays, hammerhead sharks, sea turtles, sunfish, dolphins, and occasional whales have all been documented in the area. None are guaranteed on any given dive, but the site's conservation status and low fishing pressure mean the encounters are genuine rather than managed.
Arrecifal operates year-round. The reserve is sheltered from the dominant trade winds, which keeps conditions diveable across all months. Visibility exceeds 40 metres for most of the year and is rarely below 20 metres. Water temperature is lowest in late winter (around 17°C) and peaks in late summer (around 24°C). Summer brings warmer water and longer days; winter brings slightly richer pelagic activity.
How to get there
C. la Orchilla, 30, 38917 La Restinga, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, La Restinga, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, ESP