Dive with sicklefin devil rays in the calm, clear Mar de las Calmas off La Restinga on El Hierro, the Canary Islands' wild southern outpost. Each summer small aggregations of giant Mobula tarapacana gather over this volcanic marine reserve, a lesser-known and less predictable encounter than the Azores. The rays appear from June to October, best around August and September.
Dive with sicklefin devil rays in the calm, clear Mar de las Calmas off La Restinga on El Hierro, the Canary Islands' wild southern outpost. Each summer small aggregations of giant Mobula tarapacana gather over this volcanic marine reserve, a lesser-known and less predictable encounter than the Azores. The rays appear from June to October, best around August and September.
Up to 66% sighting chance in El Hierro / La Restinga (Canary Islands, Spain). Best months: August, September, July.
Not reliably; aggregations are small and unpredictable, with research recording groups of a few to about 50 rays mainly in summer.
June to October, peaking around August and September, during the calm Mar de las Calmas diving season.
From La Restinga, the diving village on southern El Hierro, over the protected volcanic reserve of the Mar de las Calmas.
The sicklefin devil ray (Mobula tarapacana), a large endangered mobula, the same species seen at the Azores' Princess Alice Bank.
