Belushi:
So, gozumutti, you have seen mantas and whales in The Canaries have you?
Your website doesnt seem to point to any.
I must be honest I would not book a diving-specific holiday to the Canaries after diving the GBR and the Caribbean!
You might be better going to the Red Sea for warmer water, better chance to see big stuff, if that is your thing.
Dear Belushi
Inform yourself, please, at other dive centers. Mantas are spotted here yearly, and no, I do not have any photos on my website, to my disappointment I have not yet been able to get one.
I have been diving in the Red Sea 4 times, and have never seen a whale shark there. (and NO, not just diving on day trips out of Sharm or Hurghada).
But here a list for you of the species to be spotted around the Canaries:
Makos, whale sharks, basking sharks, hammerhead, smooth hounds, angel sharks
Common stingray, round stingray, roughtail stingray, eagle ray,bull ray, butterflyray, marbled electric ray, Manta (
mobular mobular, manta birostris
Dotted morays, dark morays, tiger morays, golden-tail morays, mediterranean morays
Conger eels, garden congers, golden balearic congers, golden spotted snake eels
Pipefish, seahorse (hippocampus guttlatus), sharpnose sorcerer eel, trumpetfishn
snipe, pilchards, barracudas, grey mullet, amberjacks, guelly jacks, black jacks, atlantic mackerel, pilot fish, barrel fish, remoras, bluefish, lizardfish, weevers, striped mullet, streaked gurnards, wide-eyed flounder, sand sole, tonguefish, ******* grunts, striped grunts, scorpionfish of various species, sharpnose puffers, band-tail puffers, spotted burrfish, pygmy filefish, gray trigger fish, unicorn fish, ocean trigger fish, sunfish, glass-eyes, cardinal fish, dusky grouper, black-tail comber, comber, learned rockfish, macronesian grouper, atlantic damselfish, blue-fin or neon damselfish, various gobies, blennies, hogfish, ballan wrasse, atlantic wrasse, ornate wrasse, rainbow wrasse, razorfish, 10-12 species of bream, umbrines, brown meagres, stargazers, frogfish, wahoos, atlantic bonitos...
This according to the wonderful book "Diving in Canaries" by Sergio Hanquet.
There is an instructor here who freelances for me from time to time, he worked GBR for 5 years. His opinion (not mine, I have never dived GBR) that the diving here is just as good, if different.
Thanks for the wonderful and friendly welcome back to the Scubaboard, Belushi ;-)