How Deep Does the Lanzarote Submarine Go?

The Lanzarote submarine goes down to 30 metres (about 100 feet) at most, normally 25 to 30 metres, and settles on the seabed off Puerto Calero, where three shipwrecks lie and fish swim freely around them. The dive lasts about 50 minutes, and all the way down the cabin is kept at normal atmospheric pressure, so you feel no change in your ears. You watch through 22 large view ports, rated 4.6 from 1,573 reviews and from US$72 a person (checked October 2026).

Up to 30 metres, at surface pressure

At 30 metres a diver breathes air at four times the pressure of the surface and has to equalise their ears on the way down. Inside the submarine none of that applies: the hull holds the cabin at the pressure you left on the pontoon, so the dive feels like sitting in an air-conditioned bus, and it is safe for pregnant women and for people with heart conditions or ear problems. That is why the submarine reaches a depth no beginner reaches: a first scuba dive in Lanzarote, and the Museo Atlántico dive at its 12 to 15 metres, stay well above it.

How long you are under

The dive itself lasts about 50 minutes; with boarding, the trip on the submarine takes about an hour. Allow 30 minutes before for checking in at the Submarine Safaris office in Puerto Calero marina, and, if you take the free bus, the ride from your resort each way. You have time to look around the marina afterwards.

What you see

• The three wrecks. The submarine settles on the seabed close to three shipwrecks resting on the ocean floor.
• The fish. The water off this coast holds a wide range of subtropical fish. They are wild, so no sighting is promised, but you are given a fish chart to put names to what passes the window.
• The pilots. While the submarine rests on the bottom you can see into the cockpit, and photograph the crew at work.

The audio guide, in ten languages with headphones, explains the creatures and the ecosystem as you go, and why they matter for the sea’s future.

Sea life around Lanzarote

The Canary Islands are the last stronghold of the angelshark, a flat, sand-coloured shark that lies buried on the seabed and is listed as Critically Endangered; the Angel Shark Project, a research partnership with the Zoological Society of London, studies them around the archipelago. Divers off Lanzarote also meet rays, barracuda and groupers. None of these is a promise from a submarine window, but it is the sea you are looking into.

To be among the fish rather than behind glass, the first dives and snorkel trips start from the beach, from the age of 8.

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Depth, length, the windows, the wrecks and the cabin pressure from Submarine Safaris’ own site and booking page and from the GetYourGuide listing, read on 28 and 29 October 2026. The angelshark’s status is from the Angel Shark Project. The Museo Atlántico depth is the range its published descriptions give.