Le France

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What you'll see (16)

Signal CrayfishPacifastacus leniusculusseen 29× near here

European PerchPerca fluviatilisseen 28× near here

TenchTinca tincaseen 14× near here

Spinycheek CrayfishFaxonius limosusseen 11× near here

Freshwater BlennySalariopsis fluviatilisseen 10× near here

European CarpCyprinus carpioseen 8× near here

Asian ClamCorbicula flumineaseen 5× near here

Zebra MusselDreissena polymorphaseen 4× near here

European ChubSqualius cephalusseen 3× near here

European BullheadCottus gobioseen 2× near here

Common RoachRutilus rutilusseen 2× near here

Common RuddScardinius erythrophthalmusseen 2× near here

Brown TroutSalmo truttaseen 1× near here

Common BarbelBarbus barbusseen 1× near here

Common GudgeonGobio gobioseen 1× near here

Mud BithyniaBithynia tentaculataseen 1× near here

Planning a trip

8–12 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

10,492km from Singapore — about 24h each way, so two of those days are travel. 8 dive sites within 25km.

When people dive it

Busiest May, Jun, Aug · almost nobody dives it Jan, Nov, Dec.

From 844 logged sightings — when divers are in the water, which is not quite the same as when visibility is best.

Dive Crew is a dive group from Singapore. Members plan trips here, log their dives, and share their photos of each site.

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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

~22h 24m

door to water, each way · 4 legs

FlightNice (NCE)~16h 24mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~3h 30mRoad 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 boatLe France~30 minThen the dive boat out from the island.

📍 Le France on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Nice

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

Island: Île Mercier
Country: France
Marks: 45°53.859'N 6°8.971'E
Position: 45.8977, 6.1495

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.