Fun Dive

Diving in the Azores in general but particulary in São Miguel has the advantage of the mix of subtropical climate and the Gulf Stream waters, which means more than just one type of marine species available sometimes even on the same dive. You’ll be able to view coastal and oceanic vegetation near the islands.  

Some of the advantages of diving in São Miguel, Azores, with Nerus, is the small group size. Groups are kept between one and five people and our guides are most of them marine biologists.

Diving in São Miguel is best during the months of June trough November but you can actually dive year round in these waters.  Good visibility is almost always a given, and the water temperature makes the dive even more of a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Visibility can be up to 60 meters on a good day. 

During your dives with Nerus, you will frequently see schools of mackerel, barracudas, yellow-fin tuna and trigger fish. Common sting rays grow to enormous size in these waters. Even large mantas are sometimes encountered during our underwater mountains trips. Small sea creatures such as sea spiders, sea urchins, tube worms, octopus, moray eels and lobsters hide in the small underwater formations.

Night dives are particularly spectacular since the luminescent plankton can provide an eerie glow at certain times of the year.  Shrimp in huge swarms provide rainbow colors and nudibranches and anemones provide color as well. 

Around the island you can dive in over 30 dive spots with caves, grottos as well as walls, flats and seamounts close to the island. Again, the tremendous variety of species within a very short distance is a diver's dream.  

Nerus also proposes you to do some special dive by using DPV’S (underwater scooters), underwater photography, wreck dive, deep dive, shark dives with our “SHARK PROJECT”, underwater mountains dives with mantas, and so much more…