Blue Hole (Agujero Azul)

The Blue Hole sits on the southeast, leeward coast of Lanzarote, with the island bulk to the north and northwest shielding it from the dominant NW-W Atlantic groundswell and the NE trade windsea — the reason Playa Chica is a reliably calm, protected shore-diving cove. The exposed window is the open Atlantic to the south and southeast, so the S-SSE-SE sector is fully open and any surface chop is generated by Southerly or Southeasterly winds and the occasional distant S swell. The SW-WSW is partly shadowed by Fuerteventura across the Bocaina strait. As a sheltered wall dive it is rarely rough, but a sustained Southerly or Southeasterly blow builds surface waves and surge on the shelf that can make the shore entry uncomfortable or close the site.