CORSICA DIVING: CERBICALE ISLANDS I

Located less than 5 km from the coast near Porto-Vecchio, the Cerbicale Islands archipelago are a great Corsica diving area made up of 6 rocky islets: Pietricaggiosa Island, Forana Island, Maestro María Island or Isla Plana, Vacca Rock, Toro Island, the most far away from the coast, at 7 km in the sea and Isla Piana. With a total area of ​​36 ha. They are small islands (the largest, Piana, is only 700 meters long!) and not very high (Forana is 35 meters, being the largest and Maestro María, the smallest, 5 meters)

They have been a natural reserve since 1981. As they have never been inhabited by humans, they are an excellent refuge for wildlife, in fact both fishing and hunting are prohibited and represent an important home for a great variety of flora and fauna, including birds. They are of special interest to the Mediterranean crested cormorant, gray shearwater, stormy petrel and Audouin’s gull, among others.

The marine environment is frequented by numerous pelagic birds and in its rocky and poseidonea bottoms we will find a rich biodiversity frequented by groupers, conger eels, amberjacks, moray eels, …

Therefore the dives here offer a multitude of possibilities with plenty of live across underwater canyons. There is also the possibility of diving through the reck of the Pecorella, a cement ship that sank in 1967. And if we are lucky we will also be able to see loggerhead turtles!