Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Gironde

France

Lège-Cap-Ferret

L'Herbe

The site is located between the coast and the oyster's parks. There are several sea grass fields with some sea hosrses.

Dive site is located front of the church of the Villa Algerienne at L'herbe village (Cap ferret).
The Villa Algerienne house doesn't exists anymore, so don't look for it !

La Villa Algerienne

La Vigne is a 0-star rated scuba dive and snorkel destination in France, Aquitaine, Arcachon bay which is accessible from shore based on 0 ratings.

La Vigne

This is a great dive site for sea horses observation. The sea grass field is only 4/6m deep. So take care of boats, mainly during summer season...

The dive site is located left from the Grand Piquey's jetty.

Grand Piquey



In front of the Jetée de la Chapelle, near Saint Yves.

The Golf 56 wreck

Very common destination for local divers. The exact name of this wreck is "Cote bleu" and not "Cotre Bleu" as it is often named.

This fisherman boat was sunk june 22nd, 1976. It a classic dive of Arcachon bay.

Northeast for the jetee of La Chapelle. From the Sait Yves entrance (the pipe), cape 330°.

Le Cote Bleu is also known as Joseph-Mathilde, Le Cotre Bleu (wrong spelling!).

Le Cote Bleu

Large fishermen boat sunk near 1980. The wheel is large; many nets.

150m in front of Saint Yves dive site entrance

La Marie-Noëlle

Saint Yves is the main dive site for all diving clubs of Bordeaux. This is a great place for dive training and orientation. You can reach several wrecks, the easyest is named 'Cote bleu'.

With a dive site map, and a good orientation sense, you can try to reach other wrecks... The Marie Noelle (N), the two east wrecks (NE), and several others.

The deepest place is Saint Yves whole (the false one), at hight tide you will find around 30m deep. This is the deepest place of the whole Arachon bay.

This site is located in Arcachon city, right side of  the jetty named 'La Chapelle'. Acces the site from the small Saint François d'assise street, 50m east from the jetty.

Saint Yves is also known as Le trou Saint Yves.

Saint Yves



Saint Yves area.

The Christian Yann wreck is also known as The Christ Yann wreck.

The Christian Yann wreck

The Georges André wreck

There are a lot of fishes and tiny species to see here. The main problem is the current. If you miss the tide, you will probably enjoy the drift dive... except if you have to go back to the boat !

Le Mimbeau is a long natural sandy area at Cap Ferret. There are a lot of oyster's parks along the channel. Dive site is all along this part of the channel.

L'Herbe

Snorkeling and Scuba Diving at L'Herbe