Sèche à l'Huile (les Sardinaux)

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What you'll see (20)

Mediterranean Rainbow WrasseCoris julisseen 13× near here

Rustic Dove-shellColumbella rusticaseen 10× near here

Turbinate MonodontPhorcus turbinatusseen 9× near here

Marbled CrabPachygrapsus marmoratusseen 8× near here

Mauve StingerPelagia noctilucaseen 7× near here

White Sea BreamDiplodus sargusseen 6× near here

Common Two-banded SeabreamDiplodus vulgarisseen 5× near here

Salema PorgySarpa salpaseen 4× near here

Painted ComberSerranus scribaseen 4× near here

Mediterranean Cone SnailConus ventricosusseen 4× near here

Saint Piran's Hermit CrabClibanarius erythropusseen 4× near here

Horn ShellThericium vulgatumseen 4× near here

Atlantic Purple Sea UrchinParacentrotus lividusseen 3× near here

Five-spotted WrasseSymphodus roissaliseen 3× near here

snakelocks anemoneAnemonia viridisseen 3× near here

Incognito GobyGobius incognitusseen 3× near here

Hairy ArkBarbatia barbataseen 3× near here

Steromphala variaseen 3× near here

Common OctopusOctopus vulgarisseen 2× near here

Flying GurnardDactylopterus volitansseen 2× near here

Planning a trip

8–13 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

10,480km from Singapore — about 24h each way, so two of those days are travel. 22 dive sites within 25km, enough for several days of diving.

When people dive it

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

From 3,590 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

~18h 21m

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~21 minRoad transfer to the coast, usually arranged by the resort or liveaboard.Directions →
Ferrythe crossing~1h 6mAt 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 boatSèche à l'Huile (les Sardinaux)~30 minThen the dive boat out from the island.

📍 Sèche à l'Huile (les Sardinaux) 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: 55 m
Island: Ilôt des Sardinaux
Country: France
Marks: 43°18.617'N 6°41.105'E
Position: 43.3103, 6.6851

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.