Water Temperature and Diving Conditions Log
- March 2008 to June 2008
Here is our diving centre's log of the conditions and special sightings for diving in Arinaga, Gran Canaria. As we dive different parts of the reserve every day we only visit some locations (such as the seahorses) once a week.
Other logs : Current log and Oct 2007 to Feb 2008| Date | Conditions | Temp | Sightings |
| 30/6/2008 | Above Normal | 21C | Butterfly Ray, Sand Sole, Stargazer |
| 29/6/2008 | Did not dive | 21C | Sunday - Day Off |
| 28/6/2008 | Normal | 21C | Triggerfish, stargazer, eagle ray, Gilt headed sea Brean, Tiger & common morays |
| 27/6/2008 | Normal | 21C | angel shark, big shoal of barracudas |
| 26/6/2008 | Normal | 21C | 3 angel sharks, Triggerfish, big shoal of barracudas |
| 25/6/2008 | Normal | 21C | Huge common stingray, Mediterannean Moray, Gilt headed bream |
| 23/6/2008 | Above Normal | 21C | Four Marbled Electric Rays, Mediteranean Moray, Stargazer, lots of big Gilt Headed Bream. |
| 21/6/2008 | Normal | 21C | Stargazer, moray, lots of cuttlefish |
| 20/6/2008 | Normal | 21C | Butterfly Ray, Morays, Barracudas |
| 19/6/2008 | Above Normal | 21C | 2 Butterfly Rays & Angelshark, Lots of cuttlefish |
| 18/6/2008 | Above Normal | 21C | Angelshark, Lots of cuttlefish, big shoal of barracudas, stargazer |
| 17/6/2008 | Above Normal | 21C | Big Octopus, Tiger Moray, Barracudas |
| 16/6/2008 | Normal | 21C | Butterfly Ray. Last week we had some technical problems and some of the updates have been lost. Sightings included Butterfly rays, angel sharks, morays, rays and triggerfish! |
| 10/6/2008 | Normal | 21C | Butterfly Ray and two Triggerfish! |
| 8/6/2008 | Did not dive | 21C | Sunday, day off |
| 6/6/2008 | Normal | 21C | Small butterfly ray! (we have spent all week searching for one!), eagle ray and angle shark |
| 5/6/2008 | Normal | 21C | Stargazer and large school of baby (tiny) barracudas |
| 4/6/2008 | Above Normal | 21C | Marbled Electric Ray, big shoal of Herrera bream, Mediteranean Moray, (and Tiger, brown and dotted as usual), stargazers, plus a big barracuda in just 2m of water. |
| 3/6/2008 | Above Normal | 21C | Angelshark,7 (yes seven) Marbled Electric Rays in a new area!, round stingray, eagle ray, stargazer |
| 2/6/2008 | Above Normal | 21C | 4 Angelsharks, Marbled Electric Ray, Mediteranean Moray, common stingray, Verrugato, Cape Lobster (sadly killed by a spear fisherman), Forkbeard |
| 1/6/2008 | Normal | 20C | 2 Angel Shark, 3 Marbled Electric Rays, Camouflaged Spider Crab, Striped Grunt, Hairy Blenny in mating colours, 2 large octopus having sex! |
| 31/5/2008 | Normal | 20C | 2 Angel Shark |
| 30/5/2008 | Above Normal | 20C | First Triggerfish of the year! 2 Angel Shark including a juvenile (80cm), Lots of Nudibrachs suddenly |
| 29/5/2008 | Above Normal | 20C | Angel Shark, Raton (eagle Ray), Stargazer |
| 26/5/2008 | Normal | 20C | Angel Shark, School of baby Barracudas, Hairy Blenny in mating colours |
| 24/5/2008 | Above Normal | 20C | Mediteranean Moray, Nudibrachs, Verrugato(Shi Drum) |
| 23/5/2008 | Above Normal | 20C | Lots of morays (20+) including 5 Tiger Morays; Stargazer, Gilt Headed Bream |
| 22/5/2008 | Above Normal | 20C | Angel shark, Bastard grunts in only 3m in the bay!, Canarian Lobsterette |
| 21/5/2008 | Above Normal | 20C | Angel shark, Brota |
| 20/5/2008 | Above Normal | 20C | 3 Angel shark (in 2 locations) |
| 19/5/2008 | Above Normal | 20C | Angel shark, Doncella (Rainbow Wrasse), Stargazer, a small group of grunts in the bay! |
| 18/5/2008 | Above Normal | 20C | Large Grouper, Striped Grunts, nice Hermit crab with encrusting anemones. Lots of Butterfly ray beds but not today. |
| 17/5/2008 | Above Normal | 20C | Beautiful conditions in thebay.nothing special but a lovely divein great viz with lots of life. |
| 15/5/2008 | Excellent | 20C | 5 Angelshark in 2 different areas, marbled electric stingray, big shoal of Barracudas, Striped Grunts, 2 Groupers in different areas. Now is the time to dive here as there is so much to see and great conditions! |
| 14/5/2008 | Excellent | 20C | Angelshark, common stingray, stargazer, cuttlefish, barracudas. Lovely viz and conditions! |
| 13/5/2008 | Above Normal | 20C | Stargazer, garden eel, plenty of beds of Butterflys about but they have moved on. Still huge shoals of fry in the bay. |
| 12/5/2008 | Above Normal | 20C | Butterfly Ray!! 3 Angelsharks, Common Stingray, shoal of big barracudas, big shoals of Salema, bogas, about 5 Gilt headed bream together, large branching Gorgonia |
| 11/5/2008 | Did not dive | 20C | Sunday - day off |
| 10/5/2008 | Above Normal | 20C | Angelshark, large barracuda, plus shoal of about 20-40 baby barracudas. |
| 9/5/2008 | Did not dive | 20C | Pool training day |
| 7/5/2008 | Above Normal | 20C | Angelshark, Canarian Lobster, Big barracuda, and again shoal of about 40 babies in the bay. |
| 6/5/2008 | Above Normal | 20C | Shoal of about 40 baby barracudas, more jurel than normal, good viz. |
| 5/5/2008 | Normal | 20C | Angelshark, Common Stingray, giant Jurel, a 'fish-ball' of about 80 pygmy filefish, two huge octopus, abade, shoal of big barracuda, maria francesa, we also found a new large outcrop of soft coral, and two new caves, and saw lots of beds from butterfly rays ... not bad for one dive! |
| 4/5/2008 | Did not dive | 20C | Sunday - day off |
| 3/5/2008 | Normal | 20C | Shallow dives only, lots of new life and several Jurel. In places there is a carpet of tiny microscopic fish with cuttlefish, wrasse and bream picking them off. |
| 2/5/2008 | Above Normal | 20C | 2 Angel shark, seahorse, Garden eels, Eagle ray |
| 1/5/2008 | Above Normal | 20C | Two Common Stingrays, 3 large Arrowcrabs, group of 10 baby cuttlefish in a 'kindergarden', stargazer |
| 30/4/2008 | Poor | 20C | Poor in Arinaga, so we dived in Sardina del Norte - (Above Normal) - Angelsharks, Marbled Electric Ray, Barracudas |
| 29/4/2008 | Below Normal | 20C | Seahorse, Barracudas, stargazer, pez trompeta, lots of salema, three big octopus |
| 28/4/2008 | Normal | 20C | Barracudas, Sama (Gilt headed bream), sardines |
| 28/4/2008 | Normal | 20C | Seahorse, Barracudas |
| 27/4/2008 | Did not dive | 20C | Sunday - day off |
| 25/4/2008 | Normal | 20C | Angelshark, Seahorse, Sama (Gilt headed Bream), Striped Grunts. Huge shoals of Bogas and sardines in several areas of the reserve now. Weather hot above water too! 35-38º as a kalima blows hot air in from Africa |
| 24/4/2008 | Below Normal | 20C | Angelsharks, Stingray, barracudas, stargazer, Large hermit crab, Lots of small sand smelt being chased by barracudas, jurels and bream at the same time. |
| 23/4/2008 | Below Normal | 20C | Angelsharks, Stingray, barracudas, stargazer, Large hermit crab, Lots of small sand smelt being chased by barracudas, jurels and bream at the same time. |
| 22/4/2008 | Normal | 20C | Four Angelsharks, barracudas, stargazer |
| 21/4/2008 | Above Normal | 20C | Shallow dives only with all the usual local life. |
| 20/4/2008 | Did not dive | 20C | Sunday - day off |
| 19/4/2008 | Above Normal | 20C | 3 Angelshark, Striped Grunt (all in different places to yesterday), small Mero (Dusky grouper). This week we have been seeing lots of sea hares (vaca de mar) during the day. These are normally nocturnal. |
| 18/4/2008 | Above Normal | 20C | Angelshark, Bonito, Striped Grunt, v. big barracudas, then at the end a school of 50 baby barracudas, Large hermit crab with parasitic anemones. |
| 17/4/2008 | Normal | 20C | We found the nursery again! 14 baby cuttlefish, all hovering as a group in a ragged line. Bogas are starting to come back into shallow water as well. Several angelshark beds but not a live one today. And yes it is getting warmer (hood and gloves off now!) |
| 16/4/2008 | Normal | 19C | 2 large Morays, Stargazer |
| 15/4/2008 | Normal | 19C | Angelshark |
| 14/4/2008 | Normal | 19C | Only one shallow dive, lots of new life, big cuttlefish, pygmy filefish etc |
| 13/4/2008 | Did not dive | 19C | Day off |
| 9/4/2008 | Poor | 19C | Clear visibility, rough surface with waves, angelshark and shoals of damsels. |
| 8/4/2008 | Above Normal | 19C | Eagle Ray and two seahorses were seen by our lucky divers today. |
| 7/4/2008 | Poor | 19C | Angel sharks |
| 6/4/2008 | Did not dive | 19C | Sunday, our day off |
| 5/4/2008 | Excellent | 19C | Excellent dive conditions in Arinaga. After the storms of last weekend the visibility has improved very quickly. Angel shark spotted again today. |
| 4/4/2008 | Above Normal | 19C | A group of divers enjoyed two wreck dives in Las Palmas, the Kalais and the Arona. Both conditions and visibility were excellent. Meanwhile in Arinaga, in the Marine Reserve, divers enjoyed good conditions and amongst the species that they saw were stargazer, moray eel and barracuda. |
| 3/4/2008 | Normal | 19C | Angel Shark and stingray. Again a good improvement on visibility. Conditions improving daily. |
| 2/4/2008 | Below Normal | 19C | Angel Shark and Stingrays! First time for a few days in the deeper areas, conditions now improving all the time. |
| 1/4/2008 | Poor | 19C | Conditions still very rough in Arinaga but we did 2 dives |
| 31/3/2008 | Did not dive | 19C | Conditions very rough in Arinaga so we dived in Amadores instead. |
| 30/3/2008 | Did not dive | 19C | Sunday - Day off |
| 29/3/2008 | Below Normal | 19C | Morays, cuttlefish, Sama, Abade. |
| 26/3/2008 | Below Normal | 19C | Angelshark, Garfish |
| 25/3/2008 | Below Normal | 19C | Huge Barracuda; Angelshark, stargazer, Echiurida on the night dive |
| 24/3/2008 | Below Normal | 19C | Centoyo (Camouflaged Crab), Octopus, Sama (gilt headed bream) |
| 23/3/2008 | Did not dive | 19C | Sunday - Day off |
| 22/3/2008 | Below Normal | 19C | Conditions this week have been very variable. The viz was poor in the morning but had improved by the second dive. Lots of shoals of small new life appearing, Atlantic Wrasse are making nests, some big cuttlfish about. |
| 19/3/2008 | Above Normal | 19C | Three Angelshark, two seahorse |
| 19/3/2008 | Normal | 19C | Tuna, Morays, Barracuda |
| 16/3/2008 | Did not dive | 19C | Sunday - day off |
| 15/3/2008 | Below Normal | 19C | Small common stingray, pair of abades showing opposite colours:one black, one white. Visibility has improved after a stormy week. |
| 14/3/2008 | Did not dive | 18C | Admin and maintenance day |
| 13/3/2008 | Below Normal | 19C | Two Seahorses, angel shark, common ray. Recent poor weather and strong groundswell decreasing |
| 12/3/2008 | Poor | 18C | |
| 11/3/2008 | Poor | 18C | |
| 10/3/2008 | Below Normal | 18C | Two Seahorses, Eagle Ray, Marbled Electric Ray |
| 9/3/2008 | Did not dive | 18C | Sunday- day off |
| 8/3/2008 | Below Normal | 18C | Conditions improving, only a couple of shallow dives, a nice big octopus and all our normal friends. |
| 7/3/2008 | Did not dive | 18C | Conditions improving, our snorkellers enjoyed the shallows. |
| 6/3/2008 | Did not dive | 18C | No diving here for the first time for ages. We went to Amadores instead where we saw Verrugato, Maria Francesa, Abade plus most of the usuals. |
| 5/3/2008 | Poor | 18C | Two Seahorses, and one huge common stingray, without a tail! Conditions were poor so only one dive. |
| 4/3/2008 | Normal | 18C | Three Angelsharks, three types of moray (tiger, dotted, brown), Three big Octopus (and some small), Lady escalarta shrimps, |
| 2/3/2008 | Did not Dive | 18C | Sunday - day off |


