Haliotis - Faial Diving CenterDive center

Haliotis Faial Diving Center is a PADI Dive Center in Horta, working the waters around Faial in the Azores. The season runs only from June to October, because weather turns rough the rest of the year.

Dives here are easy and full of life, with small caves and a few shipwrecks. The standouts are the Princess Alice bank, where mantas are seen regularly, and the dives where blue sharks show up. Water runs 18 to 23 degrees Celsius, and visibility is 10 to 20 meters, climbing to 40 on the more remote sites.

Beyond scuba the center offers technical diving with PADI TecRec, freediving and snorkeling. Staff speak English, Spanish and Portuguese.