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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. [+]

Mateua Dive is located in L'Escala, in the municipality of Girona, north of L'Estartit. Open from 9 am to 1.30 pm and 3.30 pm to 7 pm all week, Mateua Dive staff are on duty all day on Saturday and Sunday from 8 am to 7.30 pm. You feel like you're somewhere else at Mateua Dive with its white premises and large carpeted terrace with wooden benches. You can have lunch and a drink between dives. What's on the menu? Tapas, burgers and colourful mixed salads. Accessible thanks to ramps, people with reduced mobility are also supervised underwater by specially trained instructors. Enjoy 5 hot showers, a changing room with benches and hangers to leave your towels and personal belongings and put on your wetsuit. The Mateua Dive training centre offers SSI theory courses in the indoor classroom equipped with a blackboard and also outside in a shaded area to take shelter from the sun. All SSI courses for divers are offered from Basic Diver to Advanced Adventure as well as specialities to improve your rescue skills with stress and rescue and react right or more fun dives to become a Night Diver, ideal to discover the Mediterranean fauna of L'Escala in peace by the light of your night lamp. Board the Sirenita, a 10-metre boat with a capacity of 25 people, or the faster 6.20-metre RIB to reach the popular dive spots of the Medes Islands. The Mateua Dive Centre offers around 20 dive sites along the coast with cave dives, ideal for becoming a PADI Cave Diver. Become a PADI Deep Diver by doing deep dives around the small islands of Illes de Cala Ferriolo, Illes Cala Pedroso and of course, Ille Mateua, right in front of the Mateua Dive club! The wreck of the Marmoler is one of the best dives in L'Escala. Follow the Wreck Diver speciality here! [+]

The Eau Bleue diving center is located 100 meters from the restaurant "La Côte à l'Os", at the end of the rue du Port, in Cavalaire. Open all year round, Eau Bleue welcomes up to 11 divers aboard the Maeva, an 11-meter speedboat, regardless of their certification. You will find the place where Gwenaël has set up his inflating station just next to the second harbor office of Cavalaire. Gwen, DEJEPS, TDI Instructor, offers IANTD and TDI training, FFESSM. He is specialized in rebreather diving with oxygen and helium stock. The Eau Bleue diving school is specialized since 2001 in mixed diving with Nitrox and Trimix. From Cavalaire, you can embark on half-day or full-day trips to explore the sites of your choice, with "à la carte dives" being preferred at the Eau Bleue diving center. Gwen will take you to discover the most beautiful dive sites of Saint-Tropez and the Golden Islands, always in a small group, and in a relaxed atmosphere. Expect also dives on the most famous wrecks of the Mediterranean. Wreck and deep diving courses are organized from April to October. [+]

The Subkro Diving Center in Tarragona is located in two different ports, Port de Torredembarra and Port de Tarragona. Enjoy comfortable facilities located 20 meters from Miracle Beach, with hot showers and the opportunity to have a drink against a postcard backdrop, including the beach, port, and Roman amphitheater. Subkro also receives its divers in L'Ametlla de Mar. Subkro is open daily from April to November and in winter by appointment, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. or from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The instructors offer SSI (Scuba School International) training courses ranging from Open Water Diver to Divemaster. Study with Subkro instructors the different specialties such as deep diving, navigation, and night diving. Explore with shore dives offered by Subkro from Miracle Beach, located in the center of Tarragona, a so-called urban beach because city dwellers easily go there; Aquarium, located towards the lighthouse; at Cap Salou in the small cove Cala Reguerot del Claveguer located next to the Salou lighthouse; Vaporet where the remains of a shipwreck are located, whose chimney rises in a profusion of damselfish. In the crevices, discover in the light of your lighthouse, groupers and conger eels. Sunfish (Mola mola) have been spotted here. Diving adventures with Subkro are not lacking. Go hiking along the Route de Ronda (Salou), on the GR92 which crosses L'Ametlla de Mar, with your fins, mask and snorkel in your backpack. Explore the underwater depths of the calas with Subkro and relax blissfully in their translucent waters. This package is ideal for spending quality time with friends or family. Subkro's other wildlife diving package is unique in the world. Immerse yourself and snorkel among schools of hundreds of bluefin tuna with Subkro. Book your accommodation and diving package with Nautic Parc. [+]

The Cap Cerbère diving centre is located in the heart of the Cerbère-Banyuls marine reserve, in the Pyrénées-Orientales. Open all year round, the premises of Cap Cerbère, also welcome people with reduced mobility, in the village of Cerbère. They include three separate men's and women's changing rooms, with a blower to dry your wetsuits between two boat rotations, showers and sanitary facilities, two classrooms equipped with video projectors and wifi, two inflation stations (air and nitrox) including 20 buffer bottles. Wetsuits can be rented from children's size to XXL, from 5 mm to drysuits. Parking is free. The boarding platform is just a few metres from the club. The Cap Cerbère training centre offers PADI and FFESSM courses from beginner level 1 to the more advanced level 4. For those who dive with rebreathers or technical dives, we have soda lime on order, nitrox equipment and 5 ponys for O2 decompression. The Cap Cerbère club is the ideal structure for groups of up to 58 divers with comfort and safety. You can even benefit from a group rate in summer! Come aboard the Cap Cerbère, a 14 m boat approved for up to 39 divers, equipped with a lift to make it easier to get in and out of the water. The Marlasca is also an 8.5 m long boat, equipped with two parrot ladders and can accommodate up to 19 divers. The boat can be rented for 3 hours to meet up with friends or family. The dive sites are located near the Cap Cerbère diving centre with a 5 to 15 minute sail. Possibility of kayaking, paddle. [+]