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1Cazaux buoy n°20
Training dive site The Flamment wreck is located 55m east from the buoy. Cazaux lake.
BeginnerBoat entry
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2Le Chariot
This wreck is a barge that was used to build a pipe from the coast (the warf). It sunk with the crane, so you can see caterpillars and a lot of pipes. There are a lot of conger eels and fish shoals. The wreck is located near the south danger buoy, after the Arcachon pass. It's only 1.6 nautical miles from the Wharf of La Salie. This is an interesting wreck. The worst is to get out of Arcachon bay. Pass can really be dangerous... Le Chariot is also known as Le câblier.
IntermediateMax depth 82 ftBoat entry
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3Cazaux buoy n°19
Training dive site. Note that there is a twin-engine plane wreck 150m north from the buoy. This dive site is located into the Cazaux lake. The buoy n°19 can be used by dive clubs for dive training. Cazaux buoy n°19 is also known as The plane wreck.
BeginnerMax depth 59.1 ftBoat entry
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4Les deux digues
This is a quiet place to dive. The two dams limit the curent and you can observe at high tide fishes entering into the bay. Maximum depth was previously 14m. Channel sweep operation has put a lot of sand in the area, so now, there are only few meters depth at low tide... We need to wait the bay to resore the area. The site is located 50 m before the last road turn of the Pilat (when you drive along the coast to the South from Le Moulleau). Dive site is just betwwen two dams.
BeginnerMax depth 19.7 ftShore entry
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5Le Bateau en Ciment
This wreck probably sunk at the end of 1940. It is a 50m long wreck broken into 3 parts. Mostly covered by sand now. South of the Dune du Pyla Le Bateau en Ciment is also known as Le Caméléon.
IntermediateMax depth 72.2 ftBoat entry
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6Les blockhaus
Most dived are 3 big blockhaus from World War 2 named the net, the conger and the passage (distance from one to another is between 30 to 50m). They slept from the beach into the chennal. Take care if you enter into some of them ! There are som big conger eels and some time european lobsters. Blockhaus are located south of the bay, after the Pyla dune and just befor the Petit Nice beach. There are a lot of underwater Blokhaus in the area, located into two diferent places: Gaillouneys and Sablonneys. Access is usually done by boat or by 4WD, some courageous divers walk by the shore. Les blockhaus is also known as Gaillouneys, Sablonneys.
BeginnerMax depth 49.2 ftShore or Boat entry
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7L'Alfred Meyer
60m long auxiliary Kringsmarine fishboat based at Saint Jean de Luz. It was sunk in 1943. This is one of the accessible wrecks of the area, many others are deeper than 80-100m, so really hard to dive in ! The drag is 61m deep, main of the dive is around 55-58m. Most of time, you dive the rear of the wreck, but the poop is also impressive. No current at this depth, but sometime a strong current for the deco. Out of Biscarosse coast. 23 nautical miles from Arcachon harbour. Le Frigolin is a wreck located around the famous (ghosty) wrecks of the world war one convoy, far away out of Arachon, in front of Biscarosse. It is located into a military area (C.E.L., Centre d'essai des Landes). You have to check before to go that no weapon tests are schedduled. If so, the area is forbidden... L'Alfred Meyer is also known as Le Frigolin, Le Fridolin, Le Gauleiter Alfred Meyer.
AdvancedMax depth 180.4 ftBoat entry
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