Émergence du Bestouan

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What you'll see (19)

Marbled CrabPachygrapsus marmoratusseen 35× near here

Mediterranean Rainbow WrasseCoris julisseen 11× near here

Salema PorgySarpa salpaseen 11× near here

Saddled SeabreamOblada melanurusseen 9× near here

Saint Piran's Hermit CrabClibanarius erythropusseen 9× near here

Five-spotted WrasseSymphodus roissaliseen 8× near here

Incognito GobyGobius incognitusseen 8× near here

Mediterranean Red Sea StarEchinaster sepositusseen 7× near here

White Sea BreamDiplodus sargusseen 7× near here

Painted ComberSerranus scribaseen 7× near here

Common OctopusOctopus vulgarisseen 6× near here

Striped Red MulletMullus surmuletusseen 6× near here

Red-black TriplefinTripterygion tripteronotumseen 6× near here

Mauve StingerPelagia noctilucaseen 6× near here

Gilthead SeabreamSparus aurataseen 6× near here

Atlantic Purple Sea UrchinParacentrotus lividusseen 5× near here

Common Two-banded SeabreamDiplodus vulgarisseen 5× near here

Mediterranean Red CoralCorallium rubrumseen 5× near here

Turbinate MonodontPhorcus turbinatusseen 5× near here

Planning a trip

8–14 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

10,574km from Singapore — about 24h each way, so two of those days are travel. 49 dive sites within 25km, enough for several days of diving.

When people dive it

Busiest Apr, Aug.

From 39,444 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

~20h 15m

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~1h 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 boatÉmergence du Bestouan~30 minThen the dive boat out from the island.

📍 Émergence du Bestouan 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

Max depth: 30 m
Type: cave
Country: France
Marks: 43°12.491'N 5°31.974'E
Position: 43.2082, 5.5329
Note: Moved 600 m off the OSM position, into the water

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.