Dive trip Menton and Monaco

Stay, Diving holidays in France, in Menton and Monaco

A charming french destination on the Italian border, Menton is a very pleasant tourist resort on the French Riviera, located 7 km from Monaco and close to Ventimiglia. The city, with its colorful architecture, is located at the foot of the mountains, facing the Mediterranean Sea. The old town is superb with small squares, ochre façades with blinds, and narrow, winding alleys that lead down to the Promenade du Littoral. A dive trip to Menton is easily organized, thanks to the range of accommodations for all budgets, its microclimate, and its central location in the middle of its large diving area from Italy to Monaco.

The sites here do not present any particular difficulties. It is the ideal place to discover scuba diving. If you are already a diver, CMAS and PADI training courses are possible in the local dive shop, Palmes Beach Menton et l'Académie Monégasque de la Mer. To snorkel, go to Roquebrune-Cap-Martin below the hotel to make a departure from the beaches and rocks. Nevertheless, there are often free places on diving boats for snorkelers and freedivers. It's much more friendly and comfortable! Prepare your diving holidays in France with the tourist office of Menton.

Marine species in the area

Dive sites

As the coastline is cut up, there is always a place sheltered from the east or west wind. The dive sites are accessible to all levels of divers. Menton coastline presents about thirty sites distributed between the tip of the Mortola in Italy until Monaco, including drop-offs, shoals, and wrecks. The wreck of Heinkel 111 was laid 60 meters in Cap Martin and sank at the end of World War II. It's a German bombardier discovered in the 1960s. To see the hold where the bombs were stored, large wings, the landing train with wheels.

Accessible from France and Italy, The wreck of the Toulonnais, at a depth of 34 m, will leave you with a good memory for the groupers, conger eels, moray eels, octopus, and lobsters that have taken up residence there. Off the coast of Monaco, diving on the wreck of the Catalina seaplane is for experienced divers. The wreck of the Royal Air Force Gazelle helicopter is available to experience and expert tek divers.

Pretty dives are also carried out on a shoal covered with gorgonians in front of the village Grimaldi; on the Loews drop-off with big groupers; under the mythical oceanographic museum of Monaco perched on its cliff; around the sec à Chapons with capons and red gorgonians; in the Sainte Dévote, a dive site in open water, with forkbeard and lobsters.

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Menton and Monaco : Dive shops

Abyss Underwater World Explorers Nice
France - Nice
French

The Abyss Underwater World Explorers diving center has just opened its doors in Nice, rue Lascaris, close to the car park overlooking the embarkation platform to Corsica. Patrick Vanstraelen has more than 25,000 dives under his belt and has certified more than 4,000 divers! At Abyss Underwater World Explorers, you will discover recreational diving with first dives and benefit from small group courses. Take an interest in specialties such as night diving and diving first aid. But the highlight of Patrick Vanstraelen's diving school is tek with courses in JJ-CCR Rebreather and trimix. Abyss Underwater World Explorers and its instructors have been teaching the world's most popular diving programs and meeting the standards of the top TDI, IANTD, and PADI certification agencies for almost 20 years. Also participate with Abyss Underwater World Explorers in courses, expeditions, and trips around the world. Explore the underwater world on scooters. Abyss Underwater World Explorers is a school like no other that brings new blood to traditional diving in the Alpes Maritimes. You will also explore further and deeper the drop-offs of Nice and Villefranche-sur-Mer to live unforgettable adventures. The school's specialty? To reserve tek products go to https://divingaway.com/fr/centres-de-plongee-2384/abyss-underwater-world-explorers [+]

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Palmes Beach Menton
France - Menton
French

Open all year round, the Palmes Beach diving center is located in Menton's Garavan harbor. Olivier Faure, Paolo Marocco and Roberto Braida welcome you aboard the Yoyo, a 12 m long, 3.5 m wide launch capable of taking 30 divers and 2 crew members to Menton's dive sites, which extend as far as the bay of Villefranche-sur-Mer. For comfort-conscious divers: on the Yoyo, you're sheltered from the sun, there are 2 ladders for ascent, a hoist to get your equipment out of the water, a wide sundeck for launching, 2 adjustable stop bars at depths of 6m and 3m for training, and plenty of space for rebreather equipment. The Palm Beach Plongée boat can be used for private outings with friends and family, taxi-boating and birthday celebrations. Here you can take diving courses ranging from PADI/SSI Scuba Diver or FFESSM Level 1 to Level 3. Or simply try a scuba diving experience in Menton! Initially known for the wreck of the German Heinkel bomber from the Second World War, located 60 m below the surface, Menton's seabed offers interesting exploration dives for divers of all levels. Menton divers now meet up after the diving season for diving trips to the Red Sea and the Maldives. Take the opportunity to laze on Menton's beaches, stroll through the Madone greenhouse, visit the Basilique Saint-Michel, the Pénitents blancs chapel and the Jean Cocteau museum. The colorful old town by the sea, with its markets set against the mountains, has a charm all its own, and its micro-climate means you can enjoy the season for a long time to come. [+]