Do you need a license?

No paid license, but the free MASAF declaration is mandatory.

Is Capo Enfola banned?

Not automatically. The Natura 2000 advisory requires local rule checks.

What is the grouper rule?

45 cm minimum, max one per day, banned in MPAs.

No. Recreational catch cannot be sold.

Isola d'Elba Ovest spearfishing forecast — Italy

Isola d'Elba Ovest · Italy

5.3

wave 0.3 m head-on

visibility4m

Today — right on the edge — wave, wind and visibility.

Sources: MeteoAlarm · buoys · Open-Meteo · Copernicus · Sentinel-2 — high confidence · data 03:45

Sources & confidence

Sources: MeteoAlarm · buoys · Open-Meteo · Copernicus · Sentinel-2
Method: spearo sea-state engine: consensus of up to 6 models + satellite clarity (ZSD) + buoy-bias checks
Freshness: Re-read every hour, per coast

Compiled by the spearo sea-state engine · How it works →

The verdict comes from seven water factors and hard safety gates — not ten tabs. Go or stay.

How we score the water

Our own model

Our own forecast engine — not a third-party widget. It weighs these water factors into one go-or-stay verdict for this coast; the 0–10 dial is that verdict, read out as a number.

Swell & wave memory: Height, period and direction of the swell, plus the wake of recent storms — an old storm still stirs the water, and the engine remembers.
Wind & gusts: Speed and gusts, hour by hour — wind speed and an onshore push chop the surface and cut visibility.
Tide phase: Timing and range of the tide, calibrated per coast — big spring tides pull the verdict toward caution.
Water temperature: Sea-surface temperature — sharply cold water vetoes a green verdict.
Currents & outflow: Direction and drift of the current — it pushes you, and it drags turbid coastal water across where you dive.
Rain runoff & air clarity: Rain muddies the water inshore through land runoff, while fog and haze cut visibility at the surface.
Coast shape & exposure: How the coast faces the swell — a sheltered cove keeps the water clean; an exposed, head-on point takes a penalty.

Safety gates

Thunderstorm forecast — an instant red, no exceptions.
An official warning (MeteoAlarm / IPMA) — yellow, or red for the higher ranks.
Missing input data — a would-be green is capped to yellow rather than overstated.
Strong disagreement between forecast models — a green day is pulled back to yellow.
Night hours — where night spearfishing is banned by law the window is forced red; where it is legal (Australia outside NSW, New Zealand, South Africa) it is capped at yellow, never green.

It all folds into a single 0–10 score and one verdict: go or stay.

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Capo EnfolaIsola d'Elba Ovest

borderline

swell on the quarter today (city-level)

window: At Isola d'Elba Ovest it is worth losing ten minutes to check the local order rather than arguing about it later. The 500 m from used beaches is measured from the water's edge, and here the shore is 110 m from the mark: in bathing season do the arithmetic before getting in. With the 350 m that separate you from five metres of water, the return in daylight is planned from the start. The last stretch, the 390 m out to ten metres of water, is the one you will swim tired: put it in the day's arithmetic.
tide: At Isola d'Elba Ovest the tidal cycle shows in the thread of current and not in the level of the water. In a hard Tramontana the level rises more than any spring tide manages. The way back, 350 m to the five-metre band, is decided beforehand and not on the way. The ten-metre line, 390 m offshore, does not move with the level: it moves with the swell.
shelter: A headland gathers sea from a wide sector, so yesterday's swell counts for as much as today's wind from north. The exposure measured on the coastline is 19°, that is full north: in Tramontana there is no shelter here, in Ostro the water flattens. The strip between the shore and the 5 m contour, about 350 m here, is the first to churn and the last to clear. At Isola d'Elba Ovest the old rule holds: watch the sea for ten minutes, then decide.
conditions: With 100 m reached about 2800 m out, the limit of the day is set by your breath and not by the distance. With twenty metres at 470 m from the shore the session is organised in bands rather than in points. In Tramontana the suspension stays inshore; in Ostro it is gone in half a day. At Isola d'Elba Ovest the good days are few and have to be taken when they come.
hazard: In Tramontana the point becomes the worst place on this coast to get out of the water. The marker has to follow you even when you are working 390 m from the shore: 50 m from the vertical below it is the legal maximum. Keep in mind the 110 m that separate you from the coast when you decide on the last descent. With 350 m out to five metres, the exit is short only if you decide on it in time.
access: The opening 110 m transit is already part of the session: count the breath it costs. On a point you get in from the lee flank, never off the exposed tip. If you do not fancy swimming the 390 m back from ten metres of water, do not go any further out. From the entry point to the shore there are 110 m, and they are the metres that weigh most on the return.

Two-sided isthmus, walls and boulders; sea bream, dentex, grouper. Visibility over 20 m in calm.

Google Maps

Spot	Type	Depth	Level	Access	Notes
Capo Enfola	Isthmus, walls, boulders	Rock walls, no exact depth	Intermediate	Shore, calmer side	Seabream, dentex, grouper; visibility over 20 m only in calm. Natura 2000 advisory.
Sant'Andrea / Punta della Zanca	Granite slabs and channels	Shallow to mid rock	Intermediate	Shore over granite	Very exposed to west sea, exceptionally clear only in calm.
Pomonte	Western rock and slides	Slides, no exact depth	Intermediate	Shore	A Libeccio/Ponente calm-window spot, not rough-water shelter.