Conger eel
Swimming, Snorkeling and Diving to See and Watch the Conger eel
The Conger eel is has a very long body, it can reach 2 meters! Its skin is grey to black and its belly white.
The conger eel lives along the coastline, in rocks, wrecks, and under overhangs. It likes to hide in cavities. It can be observed swimming in open water.
Conger eels are very strong and can remain half-submerged at low tide waiting for the tide to come back in. If fed by divers, it can become curious and come after more food. It then bites thinking that it has grabbed a small piece of food. Its bite is not too serious, but it can cause infections due to the rotting food stuck between its teeth.
Its main predators are men and seals.
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Conger conger
Macro
Congre, Anguille de mer, Conger eel
Food
At night the Conger eel ventures out of the burrow to hunt fish, mollusks, cuttlefish, octopuses, and crustaceans. Its jaw is very powerful. It is a carnivorous fish. It enables him to crush the shell of crustaceans. It tears off tentacles by grabbing it and spinning on itself.
Breeding
The Conger eel reaches sexual maturity around the age of 5. It breeds during the summer, in open water and very deep. The conger eel mates only once in its life, and dies immediately after. The female lays several million eggs that are fertilized and then become larvae. They drift like plankton for two years. The larvae fall to the seafloor near the coastline and then adult life begins. A conger eel can reach a weight of 40 kg in five years.
Dive centers
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Mateua Dive
Spain
- L'Escala
  
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! [+]
- SSI Training
- Diving around Islands
- Welcome groups
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Rederis Plongée
France
- Banyuls sur mer

The Rederis diving center is located in the port of Banyuls-sur-Mer, along the Vermeille coast, on the Spanish border. This diving club is close to the SNCF train station of Banyuls-sur-Mer and the hotel recommended by Rederis is a 5-minute walk from the station. If you choose to come by plane, the nearest airport is Perpignan.
On-site you will find spacious facilities with hot showers, toilets, changing rooms, storage lockers, and an inflation station. The Rédéris diving school is specialises in FFESSM training from baptism to level 4 but also offers international PADI and SSI certifications. Specialize in the use of dry suits, wreck diving, and fish identification. Rédéris also organises winter ice dives at Les Angles in the Pyrenees.
Embark on the boats the Aigle, an aluminum barge, and the Caiman, a semi-rigid boat with a capacity of 39 and 19 divers respectively. For an additional fee due to the distance from the wrecks, discover the wrecks of the Alice Robert alias Le Bananier, the Astrée, the Saumur, and the Saint Lucien. Explore the marine reserve of Banyuls or take a half-day trip with 2 dives in the reserve of Cap Creus.
You can also take advantage of a special partnership with the Bleu Marine hotel located not far from the port. Non-divers will appreciate the many walks to do in the area. [+]
- Located close to the dive sites
- Welcome groups
- Near Downtown area
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Diving Portlligat Cadaques
Spain
- Cadaqués
 
The Diving Portlligat Cadaques training centre offers PADI and SSI courses for all levels of divers, from beginners with the Scuba Diver to advanced divers with the Advanced Scuba Diver. The courses, adapted to each one, take place according to the schedules wished and of your availabilities. Theory and practice are taught on-site. The Carpe Diem Cadaqués, a complex of comfortable and equipped flats for 2, 4 and 6 people, includes a swimming pool in which the diving centre is located, and allows you to organise and practise your diving exercises before going out to sea.
The Diving Portlligat Cadaques diving club offers introductory diving courses for children and adults. Nitrox training allows you to safely spend more time underwater, especially on successive dives. Three daily departures are scheduled to 3 different sites in the natural park of Cap de Creus. A quad bike is provided to transport your equipment to the port. Divers are transported by vehicle to the embarkation point.
Experienced divers board one of the 3 semi-rigid boats of 7,5 m length, in which you discover the best diving spots of Cadaques in the Natural Park of Cap de Creus. On your request, Diving Portlligat Cadaques organises night dives, sometimes with the possibility of going out in a boat for 2 people. Don't hesitate to discover the Mediterranean flora and fauna by snorkelling and snorkelling. [+]
- Protected Marine Park
- Accomodations and diving
- Youth diving
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Blu Tek Diving
Sicily
- Marettimo
 
Blu Tek Diving is located on the island of Marettimo, near Sicily. Trips take place from 9 am to 5 pm from the village harbour. Embark on the boat El Merendero, a 15m long fishing boat, converted for divers, equipped with kitchen, WC and storage for equipment. The two compressors on board ensure that the equipment is moved as little as possible during your stay. Relax on the comfortable Sundek which you share with non-divers, friends or family. Discover with Blu Tek Diving the most beautiful dive sites of the Marettimo marine reserve. Jump into the water through the side openings of the ship's hull and climb up the two ladders at the stern. After the first dive, head to a sheltered bay for lunch on board the boat, then make the second dive. No stress, only fun, the Blu Tek Diving training centre offers PADI recreational courses including cave diving, which is very suitable here, as well as PADI technical diving courses. The occasional training outings are carried out on board the 7.40m long RIB boat. Offers include airport or harbour transfer, 5 days 10 dives with 5 meals on board, and 7 nights. [+]
- Protected Marine Park
- Accomodations and diving
- Monk seal observation
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Europlongée
France
- Saint-Raphael

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. [+]
- Functional boat
- Spacious premises
- Nautical activities
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