Centre International de Plongée- Saint-Nicolas

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What you'll see (18)

Marbled TorpedoTorpedo marmorataseen 4× near here

snakelocks anemoneAnemonia viridisseen 4× near here

Black Squat LobsterGalathea squamiferaseen 4× near here

Snakelocks shrimpPericlimenes sagittiferseen 4× near here

Common OctopusOctopus vulgarisseen 3× near here

Krohn's DoridRudmania krohniseen 3× near here

European lobsterHomarus gammarusseen 2× near here

Goldsinny WrasseCtenolabrus rupestrisseen 2× near here

NursehoundScyliorhinus stellarisseen 2× near here

Black-faced BlennyTripterygion delaisiseen 2× near here

Blue-rayed LimpetPatella pellucidaseen 2× near here

Common PrawnPalaemon serratusseen 2× near here

Knotted Thread HydroidObelia geniculataseen 2× near here

Saint Piran's Hermit CrabClibanarius erythropusseen 2× near here

Atlantic Black Sea CucumberHolothuria forskaliseen 2× near here

Mauve StingerPelagia noctilucaseen 2× near here

Warty Venus ClamVenus verrucosaseen 2× near here

Yellow FeathersGymnangium montaguiseen 2× near here

Planning a trip

8–12 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

11,215km from Singapore — about 24h each way, so two of those days are travel. 3 dive sites within 25km.

When people dive it

Busiest Jul, Aug, Sep · almost nobody dives it Jan, Feb, Nov.

From 3,181 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

~27h 6m

door to water, each way · 4 legs

FlightLondon Heathrow (LHR)~17hFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~7h 36mRoad 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 boatCentre International de Plongée- Saint-Nicolas~30 minThen the dive boat out from the island.

📍 Centre International de Plongée- Saint-Nicolas on Google Maps 🧭 Route from London Heathrow

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 Saint-Nicolas
Country: France
Marks: 47°43.390'N 4°0.229'W
Position: 47.7232, -4.0038

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.