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💧 Water should clear by Friday (~5d) — tentative (distant windows uncertain)
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Today — sit it out — wave, wind and surge pounding. 💧 Water should clear by Friday (~5d) — tentative (distant windows uncertain)

Sources: AEMET/MeteoAlarm · buoys · Open-Meteo · Copernicus · Sentinel-2 — high confidence · data 02:37

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AEMET/MeteoAlarm · buoys · Open-Meteo · Copernicus · Sentinel-2
Method
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Freshness
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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.

01
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.
02
Wind & gusts
Speed and gusts, hour by hour — wind speed and an onshore push chop the surface and cut visibility.
03
Tide phase
Timing and range of the tide, calibrated per coast — big spring tides pull the verdict toward caution.
04
Water temperature
Sea-surface temperature — sharply cold water vetoes a green verdict.
05
Currents & outflow
Direction and drift of the current — it pushes you, and it drags turbid coastal water across where you dive.
06
Rain runoff & air clarity
Rain muddies the water inshore through land runoff, while fog and haze cut visibility at the surface.
07
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

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  • 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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Las Palmas (Gran Canaria) — solo, off the rocks
DON'T GO
don't go · wave 2.2 m (occasionally up to ~4.4 m)
wave 2.2 m head-onwind 20, gusts 26 km/hsurge pounding the rocksvisibility ~1 m
today, best window 06:00–09:00
fish · Visibility 1 m · Water 24.1°C
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Next 3 days — not divable: wave up to 2.2 m

💧 Water should clear by Friday (~5d) — tentative (distant windows uncertain)

↓ low tide 05:44 · slack water ~04:59–06:29 bite times: 11:00–13:00 · 17:17–18:17

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Sunday · today2026-10-25
07:08–18:22 · full moon
▲ 00:00▼ 06:00▲ 12:00▼ 18:00mid-range tides · 2.2 m
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Tide0.67 m
Wave1.88 m
Wind15 km/h
Water24 °C
fish activity: moonset 06:18 · moderate · moon underfoot 12:00 · high · moonrise 17:47 · moderate · moon overhead 00:00 · high
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Hs 2.20 m · roughperiod 12 s head-onwind 20→26surge 10.6viz 1 m
2.20 mrough · up to ~4.40 · 356° head-on
12 sswell building
20→26gusts 26 km/h
10.6pounding the rocks
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24.1°C5 mm + hood
▲12:00tide turn near
Atmosphere2 kmovercast
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  • wave 2.2 m (occasionally up to ~4.4 m)
  • wind-wave — choppy surface
  • first hours of the flood — fish moving in
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🔒 Acantilados de la MarfeaLas Palmas (Gran Canaria)
dangerous
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exposed head-on to the swell today (city-level)
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Agaete / Las NievesLas Palmas (Gran Canaria)
dangerous
exposed head-on to the swell today (city-level)
window
As everywhere in the archipelago, only inside an acotada and only from sun to sun. At Las Nieves the fast-ferry timetable to Tenerife also rules: pick the gap between departures and avoid weekend or holiday mornings, when the pier never stops. Summer and autumn give the flattest sea.

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Reference

What's in season,
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Minimum sizes by caladero (in the table below). Season depends on the species and place.

In season now
  • European seabass
    Dicentrarchus labrax · Canaries · RD 560/1995 Anexo III
  • gilthead seabream
    Sparus aurata · Canaries · RD 560/1995 Anexo III
  • white seabream
    Diplodus sargus · Canaries · RD 560/1995 Anexo III
  • two-banded seabream
    Diplodus vulgaris · Canaries · RD 560/1995 Anexo III
  • salema / saupe
    Sarpa salpa · Canaries · RD 560/1995 Anexo III
    ⚠️ Do NOT eat the head/guts (ichthyosarcotoxism).
  • black seabream
    Spondyliosoma cantharus · Canaries · RD 560/1995 Anexo III
  • red porgy
    Pagrus pagrus · Canaries · RD 560/1995 Anexo III
  • Málaga
  • Melilla
  • Nerja
  • Almuñécar
  • Motril
  • Adra
  • Almería
  • Carboneras

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    • Águilas
    • Cartagena
    • Cabo de Palos

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    • Baiona
    • Vigo
    • Sanxenxo
    • O Grove
    • Ribeira
    • Muros
    • A Coruña
    • Viveiro

    Levante

    • Santa Pola
    • Benidorm
    • Cullera
    • Xàbia
    • Dénia
    • Valencia
    • Burriana
    • Benicàssim

    Cantabrian coast

    • Gijón

    Balearics

    • Formentera

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    transparency ~14 m · satellite, 2 days agosatellite estimate · may differ right at the shore

    Las Palmas buoy: wave 2.1 m · 39 min ago

    tide
    The Canary springs, those 2.4 m that can reach 3.1, show up here in the Salinas rock pools and on the boulder step: at low water the step is high and you have to jump. At high water with NW swell, the backwash off the cobbles pulls seaward harder than it looks.
    shelter
    Puerto de las Nieves sits right under the Tamadaba cliff wall, and that face cuts the first-quadrant wind dead: with the trade blowing, the water by the pier stays still. The catch is NW ground swell, which comes straight into the cove; when that runs the ferry sails and you don't.
    conditions
    Here the bottom drops away fast just past the shoreline, so the water is blue and clear almost all the time, with 20 m of view in summer. It rarely goes murky, since there is little sand to lift; what shuts it down is not turbidity but the surf, which makes the cobble entry impossible.
    hazard
    The warning here is double. One: in the Canaries you may only spear inside the acotadas of the 1988/2002 and 2007 Ordenes, and since none of them are drawn, a stretch with no closure on it is not a permitted stretch; you look it up on the list. Two: harbour areas are off limits (art. 36.j) and fast ferries use the channel. And a third item, already verified: Las Nieves falls inside none of the acotadas named by the Orden of 29/10/2007 (BOC no. 222; 3/7/2008 amendment), so spearfishing has no place here; the spot still works for breath-hold diving and reading the bottom.
    access
    You park on the village promenade and walk south, away from the harbour mouth, to the cobble stretch under the cliff. Entry is a scramble down between big boulders, best with a quiet sea, and four strokes out you already have depth. Exit is the same gap: do not look for another, the wall gives nothing.

    Agaete harbour rocky ground; deep drop-offs, exposed to the NW, entry off the rocks.

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    Arinaga / Punta de la SalLas Palmas (Gran Canaria)
    dangerous
    exposed head-on to the swell today (city-level)
    window
    Canary framework first: only inside an acotada and only from sunrise to sunset. Then the practical hour is early, because the trade starts at mid-morning and because the Cabrón dive groups take over the water from ten onwards. Winter and spring bring less wind than the summer months.
    tide
    With 2.4 m springs, and up to 3.1 at the extremes, the black slabs along the shore uncover completely at low water and pools appear that you have to walk around. That same moment is the best one to walk in; at high water the step is covered and a lot slipperier.
    shelter
    Punta de la Sal faces southeast, so the NW ground swell that shuts the north coast never reaches here: the island acts as a screen. What does rule is the trade, which accelerates down the east coast and by midday raises a short chop; the corner south of the point stays in the lee.
    conditions
    This piece of coast has the name of the best visibility in Gran Canaria, and in summer 25 m over the lava tongues and sand patches is normal. What drops it is the afternoon trade chop, which puts bubbles into the top few metres; with light morning wind the water is glass.
    hazard
    The legal point first: in the Canaries an empty map authorises nothing, because you may only spear inside the acotadas listed in the 2007 and 1988/2002 Ordenes, and none are drawn; look this stretch up in the annex. On top of that there are swimmers on Arinaga beach (150 m) and the industrial port to the north. The annex was searched and the answer is no: Punta de la Sal is not among the acotadas of the Orden of 29/10/2007 (BOC no. 222, amended on 3/7/2008), and with no acotada there is no lawful spearfishing; it stays a freediving and scouting point.
    access
    From Arinaga you follow the dirt track that skirts the housing estate to the Cabrón car park, and from there it is a five-minute walk to the water. You get in over the boulder ramp, better on a low tide, and the good rocky ground starts a few strokes out. Come out through the same channel.

    Volcanic rocky ground in the SE; more sheltered from the trade wind, good visibility, good for beginners.

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    El Confital / La IsletaLas Palmas (Gran Canaria)
    dangerous
    exposed head-on to the swell today (city-level)
    window
    First things first: in the Canaries spearfishing is only allowed inside the designated acotada zones, and always between sunrise and sunset (Decreto 182/2004, art. 35.1). Here the good slot is first light, while the trade is still soft; in winter you wait for a window between NW swell trains.
    tide
    Canary tides are real: springs move about 2.4 m and the extremes touch 3.1. Here that decides the entry, because at low water the lava slabs dry out and you scramble down loose cobbles. At high water with any swell the shorebreak lands straight onto the stones.
    shelter
    El Confital opens west under the La Isleta massif, and that volcanic bulk cuts the NE trade: the wind comes off the land and the bay goes glassy. What it does not filter at all is NW-N ground swell (worst around 330 degrees): with any of that the cobble bank breaks right across.
    conditions
    On calm days visibility runs 15-25 m, proper blue water, and you can pick out the drop-off from the surface. NW ground swell kills it: two days of it lift the cobbles and leave a brown milky band along the shore. Heavy rain also flushes dirty city runoff down here.
    hazard
    A map with no closed zone on it does not mean this is open: the Canary regime is the other way round, you may only spear inside the acotadas listed in the 1988/2002 and 2007 Ordenes, and none are drawn. Check this stretch against that list first. Add military ground on La Isleta and swimmers at Las Canteras: keep 150 m (art. 36.j). That check is done, and the answer holds: El Confital is not among the acotadas named by the Orden of 29/10/2007 (BOC no. 222, as amended by the Orden of 3/7/2008), so spearfishing is not permitted here; the point stays on the map for freediving and for looking around.
    access
    You park at La Puntilla, at the far end of Las Canteras, and follow the dirt track around La Isleta to Confital bay, a good twenty-minute walk. Entry is over the cobbles, in booties, picking a gap between boulders. With any swell do not climb out on the right-hand point: come back out where you went in.

    Volcanic rocky ground NW of La Isleta; drop-offs and caves, parrotfish, sea bream and amberjack, exposed to NW swell.

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    🔒 El Juncal (Punta del Cardonal)Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)
    dangerous
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    🔒 Playa de GuayedraLas Palmas (Gran Canaria)
    dangerous
    Pro · subscribers
    exposed head-on to the swell today (city-level)
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    🔒 Playa de San FelipeLas Palmas (Gran Canaria)
    dangerous
    Ultra · subscribers
    exposed head-on to the swell today (city-level)
    window
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    🔒 Punta Camello (Bañaderos)Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)
    dangerous
    Pro · subscribers
    exposed head-on to the swell today (city-level)
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    🔒 Punta de JinámarLas Palmas (Gran Canaria)
    dangerous
    Pro · subscribers
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    Sardina del Norte (Gáldar)Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)
    dangerous
    exposed head-on to the swell today (city-level)
    window
    Remember the framework: in the Canaries you may only go inside an acotada, and only between sunrise and sunset. That said, Sardina is a morning job, before the slipway fills with dive-centre RIBs; by mid-morning in summer there is constant traffic heading for the point.
    tide
    With springs of about 2.4 m, what changes here is mostly the slipway: at low water the concrete is slick with weed and you step down onto the boulder ledge. Off the cape the current also picks up while the tide runs, so it pays to get in near slack rather than mid-flood.
    shelter
    Sardina bay sits in the lee of Punta de Sardina, the lighthouse cape: the NE trade and the northern sea run past above it and the corner inside stays quiet. What does get in, wrapping round the cape, is NW ground swell; with the 290-40 sector loaded you feel current off the point.
    conditions
    Sardina has a name for clean water and earns it: on a normal day you get a good 20 m and read the rocky bottom from the surface. It goes off when the NW pushes for two or three days and stirs the sand in the beach corner. With a hard trade the inner bay still works even when the point is choppy.
    hazard
    Mind the Canary regime: you do not fish here because no closure is painted on the map, but only if this stretch appears on the acotada lists of the 2007 and 1988/2002 Ordenes; none of those shapes are mapped, so check first. Add the current off the cape and the constant boat traffic over the ramp. The lookup has been done: Sardina del Norte does not appear on the acotada list of the Orden of 29/10/2007 (BOC no. 222, in the wording of the Orden of 3/7/2008), so spearfishing here is banned; the stretch remains a freediving and scouting mark.
    access
    You drive down from Gáldar to Sardina village and park by the beach or higher up on the viewpoint street. The easiest entry is off the sand in the cove, walking in; from there you swim towards the lighthouse looking for the rocky ground. With a northerly sea do not try to exit on the slabs on the cape side.

    Sardina rocky ground and drop-offs; rich grounds, clear water, moderately exposed to the N.

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    SOLO is the biggest risk: underwater you can black out from lack of oxygen silently and fatally, with no one around. Solo is never truly «safe». Below are the best weather windows; carry a buoy, tell someone your plan and exit time, and any doubt — don't go.

  • striped red mullet
    Mullus surmuletus · Canaries · RD 560/1995 Anexo III
  • dusky grouper
    Epinephelus marginatus · Canaries · RD 560/1995 Anexo III
    Sin prohibición estatal de captura (NO está en el Catálogo Español, RD 139/2011).
  • common octopus
    Octopus vulgaris · Canaries · 1 kg
    Talla por PESO: mín. 1 kg (RD 560/1995, todos los anexos). No coger hembras con huevos.
  • Mediterranean parrotfish
    Sparisoma cretense · Canaries · RD 560/1995 Anexo III
    • Law
    • ✓Spearfishing licence mandatory; the AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY issues it (not the State) and it is valid in the exterior waters of the whole coast. Free-diving only — scuba is banned (, art. 3).
    • ✓Spearfishing catch may not be sold or traded — it is non-commercial fishing ().
    • ✓Night prohibited: spearfishing only in daylight (sunset to sunrise not allowed) — , art. 16.d.
    • ✓Marker buoy MANDATORY: mark your position with a clearly visible buoy and stay within 25 m of it — , art. 15.
    • ✓Never keep the speargun loaded out of the water — , art. 16.a.
    • ✓Keep at least 300 m from professional fishing vessels that are working — , art. 12.b.
    • ✓The state act (, art. 16) bans, for spearfishing: a loaded gun out of the water; explosive/electric points and lamps (hand torches excepted); underwater scooters; night — from sunset to sunrise. Plus art. 12 b), d), e): 300 m from professional fishing vessels, light as an attractant, poisons/explosives. A ban in a PARTICULAR reserve, port or beach comes from that place's OWN instrument (the reserve's order, the autonomous community's rules, the port authority) — see the no-take zones on the map and your community's rules.
    • ✓Min. sizes by ( + + EU 2019/1241): sea bass 42 cm (rec.) / 36 cm / 25 cm Mediterranean / 22 cm Canaries; gilthead bream 20 cm and white seabream 23 cm in the Mediterranean (EU 2019/1241); grouper 45 cm. See your zone's species card.
    • ✓Only species in Annex I of may be taken; keeping, landing or transporting undersized specimens is prohibited.
    • ✓The licence needs a medical fitness certificate for free-diving and civil-liability insurance (or a federative licence, which includes it). Mandatory in the Basque Country/Murcia/Asturias/Galicia; the federative licence covers it in Galicia/Balearics/Cantabria; the Canaries and Andalusia do NOT require it for the individual licence (a responsible health declaration). Minimum age generally 16 (14 in Andalusia).
    • ✓There is no fixed national catch cap (, art. 5 delegates it to the communities); the standard is 5 kg/person/day, with 1 specimen allowed not to count (Canaries — Decreto 182/2004, art. 38.3; Murcia; Galicia; Basque Country). Protected species have per-piece quotas.
    • ✓Only a harpoon is allowed — hand-held or mechanically propelled, with one or several points (, art. 14.1). Carrying spearfishing gear and underwater breathing equipment aboard AT THE SAME TIME is prohibited (art. 14.2) — an offence in itself, even if you dived on a breath hold.
    • ✓Spain is not one jurisdiction. The licence is issued by a coastal autonomous community, and you must comply with the rules of the administration on whose littoral you are in the water: «debiendo cumplir la normativa establecida por la administración en cuyo litoral se realice la actividad» (, art. 13). Interior waters — inside the straight baselines: bays, coves, rías, the whole coastal strip — are the community's competence; exterior waters are the State's. So the age, the days of the week, the distances and the are found in your community's act, not in the state one.
    • ✓🔴 The Canary Islands run a PERMISSIVE regime, not a prohibitive one. In the archipelago's interior waters spearfishing is allowed ONLY INSIDE the zonas acotadas listed in the act's annex: «las zonas acotadas dentro de las cuales se permite la práctica de la pesca marítima de recreo submarina, son las que figuran en el anexo» (Orden 29.10.2007). For the archipelago's exterior waters the same is set by an act of its own (Orden 22.02.1988). So the question is not «is there a closed zone here» but «is this point inside an acotada»: outside one, spearfishing is NOT permitted, even if the map shows no closures at all.
    • ✓Canary Islands (special regime, Decreto 182/2004): the «2nd-class» licence enables recreational spearfishing (free-diving only, scuba banned), valid 3 years; applied for at the Gobierno de Canarias (procedure 1186).
    • ✓Canaries (Decreto 182/2004): the speargun may not be used within 150 m of bathers, beaches, busy areas or surface fishers (art. 36.j); kept loaded/armed out of the water (art. 41.a); any protected, closed-season or undersized catch is returned to the sea (art. 38.1). State distance 300 m to professional fishing (, art. 12.b).
    • •Bans (RMIP): La Restinga–Mar de las Calmas (El Hierro), La Palma island, La Graciosa and the northern Lanzarote islets — spearfishing banned (see zones).
    • ✓Canaries (Decreto 182/2004): spearfishing from sunrise to sunset (art. 35.1), with a speargun, a knife and a (art. 31.1). The recreational daily cap is 5 kg per person, in several pieces or in a single heavier one, and one piece may be left out of the count (art. 38.3). The catch is for own consumption or for charity only, and any commercial use is prohibited (art. 38.2). Carrying catch BETWEEN ISLANDS is capped at 10 kg — in several legal-sized pieces, or in one that may exceed that weight (art. 38.5). This regulation sets NO closed seasons of its own: under art. 172.2 the minimum sizes and the épocas de are «las establecidas en la normativa comunitaria, nacional o autonómica», so the Canarian closed-season calendar has to be looked for in another act, not in this one.
    • ⛔ Seahorses (Hippocampus) — protected (RPE).

    Rules change and are REGIONAL. Before heading out, check with the competent autonomous community (licence) and the min-size table in force.

    Safety protocol
    • Sets: watch the wave trains ≥15 min before entering; Hmax ≈ 2×Hs, the wash can run 50 m past the foam line. A lull >10 min with period >12 s = a big set «overdue», do NOT enter; enter right after a full set passes and re-check at minute 30.
    • Exit FIRST: find your exit AND a backup before entering. On a rocky/boulder shore a 0.5 m rise in swell can make the exit impossible — getting pinned/unable to climb out is the main killer.
    • Headland rip: prominent points often have a permanent topographic rip regardless of the model — locate it, enter/exit on the windward side, never swim against it.
    • Cold: wetsuit per the SST chip; the first shiver = a metabolic surge and a drop in breath-hold → get out at the first steady shiver. Cap the session at 45–60 min below 15 °C.
    • Solo discipline: buoy up; tell someone the spot and exit time; conservative breath-hold (never push it in cold/murky/surfy water); visibility <3 m — don't enter.
    • Afternoon wind: on many coasts the wind builds from midday — plan to be out of the water by midday; the chop builds — get out.
    • UV 11:00–15:00 (UVI ≥6): sunscreen and cover up on the surface interval.
    • Solo is a fundamental risk (hypoxic blackout with no buddy). Any doubt = No-go.

    FAQ — spearfishing in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)

    Where can I spearfish in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)?

    Las Palmas (Gran Canaria) has rock entry points such as El Confital / La Isleta, Sardina del Norte (Gáldar) and Agaete / Las Nieves. Las Palmas looks north-west from La Isleta. Below you'll find each spot (access, shelter and hazards) and today's forecast.

    When is the best season in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)?

    Year-round — 20 m+ visibility over volcanic relief. Ocean swell hits the islands' north faces, so pick the sheltered (south/west) side for the day. The Canaries have their own species rules.

    How cold is the water in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)?

    Warm for the Atlantic and steady all year: ~18–24 °C. A 3 mm suit in summer, 5 mm in winter. Very clear water over volcanic rock.

    Is Las Palmas (Gran Canaria) good for a beginner?

    Intermediate: very clear water but volcanic drop-offs, ocean swell on the exposed faces and rock entries. Pick the sheltered side, and apnea comfort helps.

    Do I need a licence in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)?

    Yes — in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria) you need a recreational sea-fishing licence (issued by the autonomous community); breath-hold only (no scuba), with a marker buoy and no night diving. See the guide.

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