A real submarine dive to 30 metres and three shipwrecks

The dive starts at Puerto Calero marina, on the south coast between Puerto del Carmen and Playa Blanca. You check in at Submarine Safaris' office on the marina 30 minutes before your dive time, walk out to the yellow submarine, Sub Fun Tres, and climb down a short vertical ladder through the hatch. Inside it looks more like a narrow bus than a film submarine: 44 seats along a central aisle, each facing one of 22 round viewports 80 cm across, with two larger windows, 1.6 metres across, at the ends. The cabin is kept at the pressure of the surface, so ears do not pop, and the operator says that makes it fine in pregnancy and for people with heart or ear conditions.

Then it dives. The operator gives the normal depth as 25 to 30 metres, where most of the fish are, and settles the submarine on the seabed so you can take photos. A screen shows the depth and the sea temperature, the pilots work in view at the front, and an audio guide on headphones explains what passes the windows. The route takes in three wrecks. One is the Tenderete, a tuna boat of about 30 metres that the company stripped of its engines and fuel tanks and sank at 25 metres in June 2009, as an artificial reef for fish, La Voz de Lanzarote reported at the time. The operator calls it a 50-minute dive, about an hour with boarding; afterwards you get a dive certificate, a fish chart and free time on the marina.

Submarine Safaris had been running daily dives off Puerto Calero for 12 years by 2009, by La Voz de Lanzarote's count. The operator says Sub Fun Tres is the island's only tourist submarine, built in Finland, 18.5 metres long and 106 tonnes, with six electric motors, every system duplicated and a surface boat watching each dive. Its sister, Sub Fun Cinco, dives from Amarilla Marina on Tenerife, and the operator puts the two at over 52,000 dives between them. The listing says there are up to seven dives a day, six days a week.

There is one tourist submarine on Lanzarote, so the choice is where to buy it, and whether you would rather see the sea some other way. On GetYourGuide on 26 October 2026 this dive was rated 4.6 from about 1,600 reviews, from 65 euros, with the guide scored 4.7, the transport 4.6 and value for money 4.2. Submarine Safaris sells the same dive on its own site for 61.75 euros an adult and 39.90 a child with its online discount, against 65 and 42 at the desk, and says its bus is free. Booking direct saves a few euros a head; GetYourGuide lets you reserve now and pay later, with the same free cancellation up to 24 hours before, alongside the rest of your trips.

If you would rather be in the water yourself, two of our other sea pages are the better choice for swimmers: a first scuba dive with an instructor for two (75 euros, rated 5.0 from about 450 reviews) or the kayak and snorkel trip to the Papagayo coves (45 euros, rated 4.8 from about 520 reviews, from age 5). The submarine is the one for children from 2, non-swimmers, grandparents and anyone who wants the wrecks at 30 metres without a wetsuit.