Sec Pâté

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What you'll see (19)

Western Atlantic TrumpetfishAulostomus maculatusseen 3× near here

Yellowtail SnapperOcyurus chrysurusseen 3× near here

Black TriggerfishMelichthys nigerseen 3× near here

Hawksbill Sea TurtleEretmochelys imbricataseen 2× near here

Flamingo Tongue SnailCyphoma gibbosumseen 2× near here

Striped ParrotfishScarus iseriseen 2× near here

Spotted PorcupinefishDiodon hystrixseen 2× near here

Four-eyed ButterflyfishChaetodon capistratusseen 2× near here

Schoolmaster SnapperLutjanus apodusseen 2× near here

Glass GobyCoryphopterus hyalinusseen 2× near here

Maze CoralMeandrina meandritesseen 2× near here

Yellowline Arrow CrabStenorhynchus seticornisseen 2× near here

Chocolate Chip Sea CucumberIsostichopus badionotusseen 2× near here

Bicolor DamselfishStegastes partitusseen 2× near here

Whitespotted FilefishCantherhines macrocerusseen 2× near here

Green Sea TurtleChelonia mydasseen 1× near here

Central Antillean sliderTrachemys stejnegeriseen 1× near here

Horse-eye JackCaranx latusseen 1× near here

Common LionfishPterois volitansseen 1× near here

Planning a trip

8–12 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

17,518km from Singapore — about 24h each way, so two of those days are travel. 8 dive sites within 25km.

When people dive it

Busiest Jan, Mar.

From 3,417 logged sightings — when divers are in the water, which is not quite the same as when visibility is best.

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Moon and tides

Waning gibbous

71% lit · day 20 of the lunar month

Neap tides

Neap tides — the smallest range of the month, so the weakest currents. Easy conditions and usually the clearest water, though a drift site may barely drift.

New 10 Oct Full 26 Oct

Phase computed here, not fetched. This is the spring/neap cycle, which sets how hard the water moves — not a tide table: no free source publishes high and low water for Southeast Asian reefs, and the range peaks a day or two after the moon does, by an amount that varies with the coast. For times on the day, ask the operator.

Getting there

~31h 51m

door to water, each way · 4 legs

FlightSt Lucia (UVF)~26hFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~3h 21mRoad transfer to the coast, usually arranged by the resort or liveaboard.Directions →
Ferrythe crossing~2hAt this distance the last stretch is a scheduled crossing rather than a dive boat, so book it before the flight — a missed sailing usually costs a day. Which crossing it is has been worked out from the distance and not from a timetable; ask the operator.
Dive boatSec Pâté~30 minThen the dive boat out from the island.

📍 Sec Pâté on Google Maps 🧭 Route from St Lucia

Times marked ~ are estimated from straight-line distance and will be roughly right at best. The road legs are the ones Google Maps answers properly; it will not plan the ferry or the dive boat at all. A dive site's coordinates put a pin in open water, so the map link drops you on the site, not on a jetty.

Details

Type: yes
Island: Basse-Terre
Country: Guadeloupe
Marks: 15°55.189'N 61°38.963'W
Position: 15.9198, -61.6494

Where it is

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Nearby

Sightings and photographs from iNaturalist contributors, research-grade records within 6km, under Creative Commons licences. Counts are what divers and snorkellers have bothered to log — a common fish with few records is common all the same.