Torre de la Sal.
A dive off the Torre de la Sal, a square watchtower on a small promontory on the Casares coast, between the mouth of the Río Manilva and the Arroyo Camarate. Playa de la Sal is reached from a promenade beside the tower, and Piedra Paloma beach lies to its east. No dive-centre description of the underwater site could be retrieved.
What's down there.
- Torre de la Sal watchtower on the promontory
- Playa de la Sal, reached from a promenade beside the tower, and Piedra Paloma beach to the east
No published depth range was found for the dive.
No dive-specific account of conditions at Torre de la Sal was found. Buceo Estepona says it has made many boat dives on the coasts of Estepona and Sabinillas, either side of Casares, and describes the whole area as fed by the Strait of Gibraltar; whether Peter's dives here were from the boat or the shore is not known. Protection: a spatial query of the EEA Natura 2000 dataset (2024) found no marine Natura 2000 site here; the nearby site ES6170029 'Río Manilva' lists only river-bank and land habitats. The tower is protected as a Bien de Interés Cultural.
How it got there.
The tower, also called Torre del Salto de Mora, has a square plan about 9.2 m a side, stands more than 10 m high and is protected as a Bien de Interés Cultural. Wikipedia says it is known from the 16th century but may be Nasrid work; Casares council describes it as Nasrid in style, notes a mention in 1567, and says it takes its name from saltworks the Duke of Arcos built nearby. It is included in a project to restore the historic watchtowers of Málaga province.
4 dives.
From the log — the dates follow the pattern I dived, so read them as representative rather than exact.