How can you dive in the Columbretes Islands?
The Columbretes Islands are considered Nature Reserve, so there are very restrictive rules to dive and swim in its waters. In order to do so, it must be followed exhaustively, since its existence is what allows the diversity of its fauna and flora to be maintained. That is why you should try it yourself.
To start, you can not visit the Columbretes Islands freely. It has to go with a contracted trip from any of the ports from where these exits are made. You can find trips from Castellón, Oropesa and Alcocebre, which allow you to get close to this group of four islands that hide an extremely rich and surprising underwater treasure.
Diving activities are regulated in the Columbretes Islands, so they can not be practiced freely, but in organized groups
In the organized groups you have authorization to dive, although there are some limitations that you need to know. To start, only two dives per day per person are allowed. In addition, you must respect the schedules communicated for these dives. You can not do night dives and you should always dive in the company of a guide who will indicate the route to follow in each of them.
You have to always follow the guide’s instructions and do not go independently, since what you are looking for in these dives is to contemplate the majesty of the submerged part of the Columbretes Islands and for this it is necessary to keep as free as possible of human intervention.
It is also necessary to remember that to dive in the Columbretes Islands it is necessary to have all the documentation in order and to prove 25 previous dives, the last of them being registered within 12 months prior to the trip to the Columbretes.