Puerto de Morro Jable

Puerto de Morro Jable — the Port of Morro Jable — is a beginner dive at the harbour of Morro Jable, the main resort town at the southern end of Fuerteventura's Jandía Peninsula. Port diving here combines the accessible conditions of a sheltered harbour with the marine quality of the Jandía Peninsula's biosphere reserve context, delivering a relaxed beginner experience in the most convenient location for diving from the peninsula's largest resort base. Morro Jable's harbour serves the resort's tourist fleet, local fishing boats, and the inter-island ferries that connect the southern Jandía to other Canary Islands. The submerged infrastructure of this working port — pilings, mooring structures, harbour walls, and the accumulated debris of port operations — provides the artificial reef habitat that harbour diving is built around. Lanzarote and Gran Canaria have demonstrated that harbour diving in the Canary Islands consistently delivers excellent marine quality even within the confines of actively used maritime infrastructure. The encrusting community on the harbour's submerged structures is well-developed: sponge colonies in the Canarian palette of reds and oranges, sea squirts in translucent clusters on sheltered surfaces, and the tube worms that cover every available centimetre of hard substrate in productive Canarian water. Common octopus are invariably present in harbour environments, their intelligent adaptability making them successful colonisers of the complex structure that ports provide. Moray eels occupy the larger crevices and enclosed sections of the harbour wall. The sandy bottom of the harbour basin provides habitat for the species characteristic of Fuerteventura's coastal sandy areas: stingrays rest partially buried in the substrate, and the angel sharks that are one of the Jandía Peninsula's signature encounters are possible even within the harbour's protected confines. The convenience of the Morro Jable port location — walk-in access from the town, immediate shelter from any ambient conditions — makes this an excellent practical choice for the first dive of a Jandía Peninsula visit.