Lobería Point
Dive site
Lobería Point is named for the enormous Juan Fernández fur seal colony that hauls out on its rocky shelves — a population that crashed to fewer than 200 individuals in the early 20th century due to commercial hunting and has since recovered to more than 12,000 animals under Chilean protection. Underwater, the fur seals transform from awkward beach-dwellers into hydrodynamic torpedoes, spiralling around divers in tight helices and exhaling chains of silver bubbles at depths of 6 to 20 metres. The volcanic rock walls descend steeply from the haul-out shelves, encrusted with bright yellow and orange sponges endemic to the archipelago and patrolled by the Juan Fernández picarel — a reef fish found nowhere else on Earth.
Conditions
Depth
5 to 35 m
Advanced depths
Current
Can be moderate
Can pick up on the edge
Visibility
20 to 35 m
Clearest in the calm season
Water
16 to 22°C
7mm wetsuit
Month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Water (°C) | 20 | 20 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
| Vis (m) | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 25 | 25 |
| Current | Gentle | Gentle | Gentle | Gentle | Moderate | Moderate | Moderate | Moderate | Gentle | Gentle | Gentle | Gentle |
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