The Cape Verde Islands
CA. 450 km off the West coast of Africa, the Cape Verde archipelago from a depth of more than 5,000 meters from the sea rises. Stark contrasts characterise the image of this still pretty unspoilt islands of volcanic origin in the southern part of the North Atlantic. Because the total 15 Islands with an area on the southern edge of the Sahel, the desert belt of Africa, between 0.2 to 991 km², its vegetation is extremely sparse and drawn by the drought. Even the Islands, which are known as “green” Islands, work in places in the partly long drying times depressingly bleak.
It look very different from under water. A huge fish wealth, the waters owe Canary Islands, power coming from the North awaits the divers. It provides constant water temperatures between 22 to 25 ° C all year round. So take for example seasonal several species of tuna on the coasts of Cape Verde along, and huge swarms with thousands of individuals from the West African doctor fish can almost at every dive suddenly from the nothing show up and take a view of the diving partner! Kaiser -, moth — and parrot fish, which is known only from coral reefs, are ubiquitous. Trumpet fish, brush tail file fish and ocean triggerfish here not solitary but often equally occur in swarms. Lobsters are nothing special already after a few dives more, you get them on almost every dive to face, and on some dives, the fingers of one hand has not been sufficient to include the sighted nurse sharks! With a little luck, then the encounter with hammerhead sharks, a whale shark, or a swarm of Manta Crown the diving holiday.
