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The Lecques Aquanaut diving center is located in the new port of Les Lecques, in front of a huge car park. Open all year round, you will benefit from beautiful and comfortable facilities, ideal for groups of divers with changing rooms equipped with hot showers, toilets, a classroom equipped for training with a computer. The shop allows you to stock up on any small equipment you may be missing. The air in the filling station is checked. The diving school offers ANMP and PADI training courses from baptism to divemaster. About 50 adult and children's equipment are renewed every two years. Park near the Aquanaut and H2O boats, 30 m away, to unload your personal equipment directly. The boats are also suitable for groups, with capacities of 19 and 29 divers respectively. Board the Lecques Aquanaut boats to explore the dive sites of Bandol and La Ciotat. The former owner of the Lecques Aquanaut diving club, Marcel Camilleri, thought he had found St Exupery's little plane. The wreck of a P-38 Lightning lies upside down on a sandy bottom. This American twin-engine plane is literally covered with fishing nets. Later, divers and experts made the connection with another P-38 lying in the bay of La Ciotat. This one was shot down in the same conditions, the same day, only a few minutes apart! The two wrecks are part of the same Fighter-Group squadron and are separated by 3 nautical miles. [+]

The Espace Mer diving center is located in Hyères, at the Tour Fondue, on the Giens peninsula, opposite the island of Porquerolles. The Espace Mer diving school offers PADI and FFESSM training courses, from initiation to instructor. Espace Mer organizes freediving courses at sea, from April to November, around the islands of Hyères. You will learn techniques to improve your freediving performance in a variety of environments such as cave and tunnel diving and wreck exploration. Come aboard Espace Mer's boats, whatever your level, either as a group or individually, to visit the most beautiful wrecks in the Mediterranean, the islands of Hyères, and the Port-Cros National Park. There are many activities available for non-divers. Take a day trip to the Golden Islands onboard the Brigantin, a traditional sailing boat. Jump into the water with fins, mask, and snorkel for snorkeling trips. Take the opportunity to discover the Mediterranean fauna. Kayak along the Tour Fondue coast and around the Petit and Grand Ribaud islands, opposite Porquerolles Island. The best thing to do is to go on the boat Mousquemer to have beautiful encounters with dolphins and whales. At sunrise, after a quick 30-minute sail, the boat is positioned above an underwater pit. With binoculars in hand, you can observe blue and white dolphins, bottlenose dolphins, pilot whales, sperm whales, and fin whales, depending on the currents, the weather, and the season. Sometimes turtles come to the surface to breathe. Thanks to Espace Mer, benefit from a personalized service to get to the islands of Porquerolles, Port Cros, and Le Levant on board a private taxi boat. Oh yes, please note that Espace Mer also provides logistics for film shoots and filming. [+]

The Europlongée diving center is located in Boulouris, not far from Saint-Raphaël, in the south of France. Open all year round, Europlongée is ideally located, both on the Arène beach and in the Toukan harbor, commonly known as the port of Boulouris. Opening directly onto the beach and the harbor, Europlongée has over 100m2 of premises where individual divers and groups of up to 75 people can be accommodated. At the Europlongée diving school, you can do the whole range of FFESSM training courses, from the first dive to level 4 Initiator. You can also explore the underwater world by snorkeling. On-site, you have two showers, rinsing tanks for suits and jackets, a disinfection tank for masks and regulators and three racks for drying equipment. Inside, you will find a reception desk, the maintenance workshop, the kitchen, WC and cloakroom, the equipment storage room with 55 complete sets of equipment. The inflation station is suitable for the inflation of about 100 cylinders. You can store your diving bags on shelves. Wi-fi internet access is available. The Europlongée diving center offers the use of nitrox, from basic to advanced levels. The tekkies have 11 ponys bottles in 26/200 equipped with 26/200 regulators for decompression. Embark on one of the two catamarans, the Dauphin des Iles and the Barakuda, with 39 and 40 places each, or on the semi-rigid with 18 places to explore the most beautiful dive sites of Fréjus and Saint Raphaël, including the sites of Agay and Anthéor. [+]

The Incantu diving center is located by the sea, in Galeria, 28 km from Calvi, on the west coast of Corsica, on the edge of the Scandola nature reserve. Specialized in group accommodation and training, it is one of the largest diving facilities in Corsica with 7 boats, 25,000 dives per year, 6 permanent state-certified instructors, and a total capacity of 120 divers. The Incantu diving school offers FFESSM technical training courses from level 1 to monitor 2°degré. Of course, you can also try out first dives and snorkeling trips here. Weights and blocks are available, some of which have double exits, inflated to 230 bars. Most of the rental equipment is renewed every year. About twenty complete sets of equipment are available for children. Come aboard the Incantu Dive Club's boats, the Elbu and the Focolara, two comfortable and fast yellow boats, 9.50 m long and 3.50 m wide, with a capacity of 20 divers each. Members of the same group and divers of the same level are brought together to explore the best sites in Corsica. Five fast semi-rigid boats are used for technical training. All levels of divers dive at local sites. The first dives are done at 6 m and the experienced divers meet at 50 m, like at Capu Di Vella or Morsetta which present 3 different dives depending on the slope. The Tombant Ciuttone also allows multi-level explorations. La Roche Bleue is a piton starting at 33 m and dropping to 50 m. U Furanu is made up of 3 rocky pitons from 26 to 55 m. Expect a variety of fun routes at La Faille and Le Tunnel. Stay in one of the 16 large flats in the Incantu residence, which open onto a pool and jacuzzi. [+]

Aventure Sous-Marine is ideally located on the promenade of the old port in St-Raphael. Aventure Sous-Marine is open regularly from March to October. Organizing a diving trip in St. Raphael is easy because you can walk from the Aventure Sous-Marine store and boat to your accommodation and the train station (a 5-minute walk to Aventure Sous-Marine). If you come by car, the Bonaparte underground parking lot is located 150 meters from the dive center. Aventure Sous-Marine offers you the possibility to follow FFESSM training courses from beginner to advanced level. Expect to visit different sites, alternating rocks, and drop-offs, at the foot of the Esterel, a massive red rock that falls steeply into the sea. Explore the wrecks of barges, colonized by conger eels, a miniature underwater village created for the shooting of a movie, a corner with the statues of a Virgin, and a... Mermaid! The owner of Aventure Sous-Marine, Didier, welcomes you aboard his boat equipped with an elevator that allows you to go up from the water with the equipment, gently for your back. This device allows us to welcome handicapped divers to Aventure Sous-Marine with adapted supervision. The roof of the boat offers good protection against bad weather. The large rear platform makes it easy to get into the water. Aventure Sous-Marine offers equipment for sale, with a special area dedicated to photographers. Don't hesitate to invest in your own high-definition photo to immortalize your underwater vacation... Videos of your training or your first dive are edited into a report to share your adventures with your friends and family. [+]