Points of Scuba Diving in Los Roques. Los Sábalos

Located: The Sábalos is located in the North end of the National Park the Roques, in the end the West of the Island Great Roque, We can accede to this point from a boat sailing single 10 minutes.

Kind of depth: Of net rocky formation, rocky Grotto formed by the action of the cliff Sea of the Island Great Roque, In its beginning the bottom is net rocky. The depth in this immersion oscillates from the 5 to the 20 meters ideal site for Advanced divers, current moderate to forts..

Life forms: During this immersion great sponges can be observed, barracudas, parrots, fish angel, mere, pargos, brown green, rays, sábalos and with luck some shark.

Briefing of Scuba Diving: When arriving at the Sábalos, first that is going to enter the water she will be the guide so that it is the one who maintains a mark in the water in where will be the group. Once the group is reunited and that a control has been let to know that everything is well will begin the reduction. This it will be free since the diving point lacks buoy. It is important to do a reduction controlled and to be compensating constantly.

During the first fifteen minutes of the immersion we will by hand stay to a depth between three and six meters taking the left wall and watching towards the surface since in that place it is where usually they group the Sábalos. Followed from this we will arrive the mouth of the cave and we will stay patches to the left wall of this cave. This becomes since in some opportunity it has happened that inside are sharks and the divers have the opportunity to see leave them when feeling the bubbles. We will continue navigation and we will descend to about eighteen meters, this will be the Maxima depth of the immersion and the total time of the immersion is considered in forty and five minutes.

Once passed thirty and five minutes approximately we will arrive at a rocky formation that we called "the Tower". This is an impressive vertical rock that arrives until the surface and generally this surrounded by enormous amounts of fish.

After this we will begin our ascent separating to us of rocks so that therefore the guide can send a buoy to surface which will serve as line of ascent in where the shutdown becomes of security to five meters or fifteen feet during three minutes.