The Arona (Pecio Arona)

The Arona sits in open water off the northeast coast of Gran Canaria, just offshore of Punta Jinámar and southeast of the Las Palmas / La Isleta peninsula. The exposed window is the open Atlantic from the north through northeast to east, which takes the full force of the prevailing NE trade windsea and any north-swinging swell — the reason the site is frequently choppy with current. The island bulk to the south and west (roughly SSE clockwise to WNW) blocks those sectors almost entirely, and the La Isleta/Las Palmas headland to the northwest partly shadows the dominant NW-W Atlantic groundswell, though a large NW swell still wraps around the northern tip onto this coast. In practice a NE trade blow or a north/northeast swell builds surface waves and reinforces the current, forcing dives to be postponed, while southerly and westerly weather leaves the site sheltered.