Ilha dos Currais

The Currais Islands make up one of Brazil's three national marine parks, alongside Fernando de Noronha and Abrolhos. The Ilhas dos Currais National Marine Park was created by Law No. 12,829 of June 20, 2013. More than 8,000 birds live on the islands.

Underwater there are corals and well-preserved vegetation, with yellowtail snappers (guaiúbas), squirrelfish (jaguareças), moray eels, hermit crabs and butterflyfish. On the dives you can also see turtles, schools of passing fish such as mackerel, and many damselfish. A scientific visual census recorded 48 reef fish species in the archipelago, and the most numerous were the tomtate Haemulon aurolineatum, the damselfish Stegastes fuscus and the sergeant major Abudefduf saxatilis. The region is home to the mero, or goliath grouper, a large, endangered fish, and there are reports that its population has grown with enforcement efforts.

Trips tend to run throughout the year, but not often, because they depend on extremely calm seas, and unstable weather and murky water from the Paranaguá and Guaratuba bays cancel many of them. It is a rare dive: since 2001, one of the operators that take divers to the islands has run only 335 tourist trips up to 2025, just two of them in 2024, and cancels 60% to 70% of scheduled trips because of sea conditions and safety.