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Med Scuba Diving At The Medes Islands Protected Zone
Over 1,345 different marine species have been recorded there since Jacques Cousteau went scuba diving there and the Medes Islands ecosystem is deservedly classified as the finest natural reserve in the western Mediterranean.
Preservation of Iles Medes started in 1983, and in 1990 the preservation was enlarged to the seabed flora and fauna, encouraging a remarkable recovery of the natural marine life and turning the area into a niche for numerous species facing extinction. The ecosystems supporting marine seagrasses like Posidonia oceanica are especially productive as they are the breeding habitats for many crucial species.
The Medes Islands Protected Zone covers an area of 93,2 hectares with a supplementary protected 418 hectare area stretching up to the Montgri coast. A new Natural Park has been pledged by the Government of Catalunya to include the coast northward all the way to Cala Montgo, L'Escala.
Caves at Medes Islands Marine Reserve
The abundant tunnels and caves make clear that this limestone archipelago was attached to the Montgri Massif over ten thousand years ago. Today caves around the Medes Islands and up the Montgrí coast towards L'Escala provide exceptional opportunities for divers to experience (with a divemaster) the separate fauna that elect to live in semi-darkness.
One of the most renowned sites at Illas Medes is Dolphin Cave, named after a statue at the southern entrance. Inside is a refuge for large groupers, meagres and shoals of silvery bream. Along the reef outside divers glide through shoals of bream and clouds of anthias whilst also watching out into the blue for cruising eagle rays and visiting sunfish and dolphins.
There's another cave system handy with its groupers, always ready to pose for photographs, illuminated by a vast funnel. Yellow cup corals robe the walls and camouflaged scorpionfish perch unseen on ledges. Mediterranean moray eels and congers live in crevices. From here a further tunnel leads back through the island and out onto the reef again, via the most beautiful yellow and red gorgonian corals.
Scuba Diving at Medes Islands Marine Reserve
There are 10 buoyed dive sites, allowing diving during every season. A variety of depths allows dives for every level of diver, and even snorkelers can enjoy the colourful spectacle of underwater marine life of the Medes Islands. In the shallow zones we can delve into a dense blanket of brightly lit seaweeds with over a hundred species hosting shoals of silvery bream, colourful wrasse, and delightful nudibranchs. Beneath 10-15 meters we see light-deprived algae and pretty pink sea perch, large predatory dentex, eagle rays, octopus, lobster and big, friendly groupers. Below 20 meters we enter an area of gorgonian corals inhabited by over 600 species.
The Illas Medes Protected Area, with its 65,000 annual dives, is a model of good custodianship. In 2009 scuba divers helped with an assessment of the the Iles Medes ecosystems by filling out questionnaires following their dives. Questions asked about the abundance of different species present and the number of divers, snorkelers and boats seen at the dives sites.
The results of the ongoing assessment of the Medes Islands Reserve will direct the level of conservation required to safeguard this small archipelago for future generations. An area of exceptional ecological significance, all the underwater environments to be found in the Mediterranean are represented in the sea floor around the Medes Islands, making the area one of the most captivating sites for Mediterranean scuba diving.
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