Comber
Swim, Snorkel, Dive, See, Meet, Watch the Comber
The comber can be found in the Mediterranean, the English Channel, the Eastern Atlantic, the Black Sea. It is often seen alone. It is quite territorial.
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Serranus cabrilla
Macro
Serran chevrette, Comber, Serranus cabrilla
Food
The Comber feeds on small fish, cephalopods, crustaceans, worms.
Breeding
The comber is a hermaphrodite, meaning that the same individual carries both male and female attributes. It is mature by reaching the size of 15 cm in length by the time it reaches the age of four years. Its eggs are pelagic and will drift as plankton with the currents.
Dive centers
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Aventure sous-marine
France
- Saint Raphael
 
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. [+]
- Near Downtown area
- Functional boat
- Stay without a car
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Unisub
Spain
- l’Estartit (Girona)
   
The Unisub diving centre is located in l'Estartit, on the Costa Brava, Spain, 30 kilometres from the town of Girona. Unisub's premises are also adapted to accommodate groups with full equipment hire, a repair workshop, a conference and projection room, and transport of equipment to the boats. Your personal equipment can be stored on the premises. Embark on 2 to 4 sea trips per day, depending on the season.
The instructors of the Unisub training centre generally welcome you in your own language to follow the PADI and FFESSM courses, from baptism to Rescue Diver. They make it a point of honour to satisfy their clients. The best spots in L'Estartit are located in the nature reserve of the Medes Islands, popular with divers from all over Europe. This small archipelago is a beautiful natural site in Catalonia, located one mile from L'Estartit. Composed of seven islets, several reefs offer very interesting underwater routes.
The coastline extends underwater in steep drop-offs with underwater caves. At Unisub you will enjoy a programme with a mix of the best dive sites in l'Estartit, either on the coast with Les Salines, Negre del Falaguer, El Rossinyol, Puig de la Sardina, La Pedrosa, El Reggio, La Ferriola, or around the Medes Islands with El Salpatxot, Pedra de Déu, El Medallot, Pota de Llop, La Vaca. Take advantage of Unisub's great prices with the hotel or flat stays including 10 dives. A good little restaurant serves as a canteen for divers and offers a daily menu. Unisub is a very well known centre for former divers as it exists since 1960. [+]
- Welcome groups
- Protected Marine Park
- Near beach
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Easy Dive Cannes
France
- Cannes

The Easy Dive Cannes diving center is strategically located near the Palm Beach, in Cannes. Easy Dive Cannes is open all year round. However, in winter, the trips take place on weekends and by appointment during the week. Otherwise, there are trips by reservation every day, from May 1st to October 31st, with boat departures at 9 am and 2 pm. The Easy Dive Cannes diving school is approved as a PADI 5 Star IDC so you have the possibility to do PADI training from the baptism to the instructor level. Courses on the FFESSM program are also given.
You will benefit from comfortable premises of 120m2 with a technical room, a sales area, a workshop for the revision of equipment, an air-conditioned classroom equipped with video and overhead projector. And of course, we meet after the dive, in the relaxation area with coffee and drinks! Easy Dive Cannes is located 150 meters from the Port du Mouré Rouge where you board the semi-rigid Sapristi. You unload your diving equipment there. The tanks are transported by the Easy Dive diving school, by car. From there, you will reach the best diving sites of Golfe-Juan, Juan-les-Pins, and Antibes but also the diving spots of Cannes, with the islands of Lérins. [+]
- PADI IDC*****
- Located close to the dive sites
- Near Downtown area
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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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Mio Palmo Cavalaire
France
- Cavalaire sur Mer
 
The Mio Palmo diving center is located in the Résidences du Port, close to Cavalaire town center. Mio Palmo features a dedicated dive shop, a changing room, and comfortable amenities. Mio Palmo is also equipped with a modern filling station with air and nitrox, as well as buffer tanks for quick refilling of tanks. You can also get oxygen on site.
The Mio Palmo diving school offers the possibility of FFESSM and PADI training, from the first dive to divemaster and instructor. Technical diving is in the spotlight here with TEC REC PADI courses. In front of Mio Palmo, you can take advantage of the paid parking from June 15th to September 15th. You can avoid carrying your diving equipment over a long distance thanks to the boats located in front of the center. The Mio Palmo, a comfortable and fast boat, in yellow aluminum, takes 20 divers. The 25-person Europa boat has a sundeck, toilet, and large cabin.
Dive to your heart's content in the bay of Cavalaire and around Cap Camarat. You visit wrecks like the Rubis and the best dive sites of Cavalaire-sur-Mer around Cap Taillat and Lardier. Take a look around the Roches Quairolles. From Mio Palmo, you can also explore the most beautiful wrecks in the Mediterranean, such as the Greek or the Donator, as well as the underwater world of the Port-Cros and Porquerolles National Parks, which offer the best diving in the Mediterranean. [+]
- Located close to the dive sites
- Near Downtown area
- Carry Less Equipment
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