Sites de plongée de la Basse des Esclaves

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What you'll see (17)

Marbled CrabPachygrapsus marmoratusseen 14× near here

European Pond TurtleEmys orbicularisseen 11× near here

Portuguese Man o' WarPhysalia physalisseen 9× near here

Common OctopusOctopus vulgarisseen 3× near here

Atlantic Beadlet AnemoneActinia equinaseen 3× near here

Peacock BlennySalaria pavoseen 2× near here

Montagu's BlennyCoryphoblennius galeritaseen 2× near here

European Sting WinkleOcenebra erinaceusseen 2× near here

Cantabrian NudibranchFelimare cantabricaseen 2× near here

Thick-lipped DogwhelkTritia incrassataseen 2× near here

Atlantic Purple Sea UrchinParacentrotus lividusseen 1× near here

Horned BreamDiplodus cervinusseen 1× near here

European Green CrabCarcinus maenasseen 1× near here

Great Pond SnailLymnaea stagnalisseen 1× near here

European PerchPerca fluviatilisseen 1× near here

Corkwing WrasseSymphodus melopsseen 1× near here

Blue MusselMytilus edulisseen 1× near here

Planning a trip

8–12 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

11,140km from Singapore — about 24h each way, so two of those days are travel. 6 dive sites within 25km.

When people dive it

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

From 1,518 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

70% 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

~25h 18m

door to water, each way · 4 legs

FlightBarcelona (BCN)~17hFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~5h 48mRoad 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 boatSites de plongée de la Basse des Esclaves~30 minThen the dive boat out from the island.

📍 Sites de plongée de la Basse des Esclaves on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Barcelona

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: Garritz
Country: France
Marks: 43°29.002'N 1°36.850'W
Position: 43.4834, -1.6142

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.