The Table Top is one of the best known dive sites mainly because here the variety of dive sites is enormous.

Name Dive Site:	Table Top
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From the entry point leading to the Table Top there are several classic dive routes, including the Fish Ball, the Finger, Arco Pequeno and the Eel Garden. The entry point for this dive can look daunting at first, as the waves can often appear to break right on the entry point. A special entry technique, an underwater channel and the combination of currents make this a lot easier that it may first look. The diver is rewarded with a variety of dive plans, taking him to the Fish Ball, or to the caves and swim-throughs.

Fish life is abundant in this area, and apart from the common species of parrotfish, damsels, wrasse, and bream, you are likely to find yellow snappers (roncadors), trumpetfish, a shoal of barracudas, plenty of morays (tiger, brown and dotted), cernia rossa, and in spring large shoals of sardines and bogas. Several species which are less common have resident populations in this are including Shi Drum (verrugato), glasseye, marmor bream, jurel (yellow jack), painted comber, zebra bream and some stunning giant anemones. If you look carefully or just get lucky you may also see dusky grouper, three types of stingray, forkbeard, unicorn fish, tuna, in exceptional circumstances sea-horses, blue sharks or manta rays. A night dive can reward the adventurous with stingrays, squid, octopus, angel shark and many other night hunters of the reef. And as for plant life and invertebrates there is much more to look at here as well.

In addition to the prolific marine life, there is a fascinating underwater scenery, allowing 'wall dives' around much of the outside of the reef; several caves, the small arch and lots of larger holes to look in for morays and other creatures. Few dive sites in the Canaries have such variety, such abundance, and such scenery so close to shore all available from the same entry point.

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