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Big Hermit crab

Swimming, Snorkeling and Diving to See and Watch the Big Hermit crab

The Big Hermit crab is ten centimeters long, including the legs and claws, and red-colored. It dwells on rocky environments, cavities, walls at a depth of 100 m. It lives with a sea anemone in close collaboration, as the latter is fixed to the shell. Its shell can be entirely covered with anemones. It has to carry all this weight in spite of its small size. Not all empty shells are covered with anemones. The Big hermit crab then seizes a sea anemone with its claw and sets it on its shell. The anemone does not resist. The hermit crab can also change anemones as it changes shells for lack of space. It can also abandon the anemone with the shell. When it moves too quickly, the anemone secretes white and mauve itching filaments.

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Dardanus calidus
Macro
Bernard-l’ermite, Grand Pagure, Big Hermit crab

Food

Big Hermit crab hunts at night, catching prey that swim within range of attack, mainly sea slugs. It also eats the rest of the sea anemones' meal.

Breeding

Like most crustaceans called decapods, eggs are incubated on the female's abdomen and will give birth to larvae.


Dive centers

 

Aquadomia
France  - Marseille
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The Aquadomia diving center is located in Marseille, with departures from the Pointe Rouge harbor. Aquadomia is specialized in diving training, which you can choose in accelerated and/or customized. It offers the whole range of FFESSM, SSI, PADI training courses, from the beginner level with the baptism to the professional level, with the instructor. The Aquadomia diving center offers level 1 diving courses, a level 2 training course, the passage of level 4, a nitrox specialty, and even trimix diving! Good plan: the manager of Aquadomia, Vincent Defossez, offers you to start online, on your computer, by studying the theory integrated into your diving training. Free of charge, from your home, dive into your lessons before starting the practical exercises in the water in Marseille. Your diving course becomes a child's play whether you are a beginner or an experienced diver. Meet at 8:10 am at Aquadomia for your first day of practical training, to settle the administrative points. Around 9:00 am, you will cast off from the boat for your first underwater experiences. After 15 to 40 minutes of navigation, you will arrive at the dive site chosen according to your level, the weather, and the practical exercises to be done. The return to the Aquadomia dive center takes place around 12:00. Return times are never guaranteed: these are the hazards and charms of sailing and diving! After booking, it is also possible to spend the whole day at sea, in the Calanques National Park. Every winter, Vincent Defossez judiciously proposes you join him in Martinique to spend your training sessions in all tranquillity, in a warm sea and under the sun! [+]

  • Friendly atmosphere
  • PADI Training
  • Easy to access
From 89,00 €

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European Diving School Saint-Tropez
France  - Ramatuelle
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A Escola Europeia de Mergulho está localizada no acampamento Kon Tiki, na praia arenosa de Pampelonne, perto de St-Tropez. A Escola Europeia de Mergulho está aberta desde o início de Maio até ao final de Setembro. No entanto, os grupos também são bem-vindos após este período. Alex, o proprietário da Escola Europeia de Mergulho, é também instrutor de mergulho. Recebe-o na sua língua materna, em alemão, inglês, francês ou espanhol. A atmosfera é cosmopolita à medida que mergulhadores de toda a Europa se encontram neste centro. Alex é o único alemão na costa que tem um diploma de mergulho estatal francês e é, portanto, o centro de referência alemão na costa. A Escola Europeia de Mergulho oferece uma vasta gama de cursos PADI e CMAS, para todos os níveis de mergulhadores, desde os principiantes até aos mais experientes, tanto recreativos como tek. O parque de campismo Kon Tiki é muito adequado para mergulhadores Tek, clubes, associações e famílias. Trimix está disponível mediante reserva e Nitrox 32 é gratuito na Escola Europeia de Mergulho. As válvulas cilíndricas têm uma saída dupla DIN ou INT. A partir do centro de mergulho da Escola Europeia de Mergulho, é possível explorar os mais belos naufrágios no Mediterrâneo, incluindo relíquias populares da Primeira e Segunda Guerra Mundial, tais como o submarino Rubis, o contratorpedeiro Poursuivante, o minesweeper Espingnole, bem como navios de carga como o Togo, o Profeta e o Tell. Visite também o Grande Queyrolle, o Sardinaux, o Arche, o Rabiou. Irá também explorar os locais mais belos do Parque Nacional de Port-Cros. [+]

  • Free Nitrox
  • Stay without a car
  • Accomodations and diving
From 29,00 €

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NTR Dive
France  - Cavalaire
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NTR DIVE, directed by Raphaël Rousselle, is a diving school specialized in Nitrox, Trimix, Rebreather diving. It is a concept of itinerant Tek diving school, that is to say that you can choose the places of your explorations and your trainings among the list of the partner centers: CIP Nice, Subvision in Golfe Juan, CIP Fréjus, Club Sous L'eau in Saint-Raphaël, Easy Dive in Cannes and Juan les Pins, la Rague plongée in Mandelieu la Napoule, H20 Sainte-Maxime, Tiki Dive in Cavalaire, Eau Bleue in Cavalaire, Be Free to dive in Villeneuve Loubet, le Gîte de plongée du Gapeau, Saint P'hyères Plongée in. .. Hyères. NTR DIVE offers you a tailor-made service of training and exploration dedicated to Tek, Nitrox and Trimix diving, in open circuit and rebreather. The services also include the sale, rental, and maintenance of top-of-the-range equipment. This school offers you its training courses with certifications from the different organizations IANTD and FFESSM/CMAS. Raphy is an approved technician of the biggest brands of teak equipment and shares his expertise with you as an official dealer of rEvo and AP diving rebreathers. [+]

  • Tek training abroad
  • Lake diving
  • Tek travel
From 12,00 €

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Lavandou Plongée
France  - Le Lavandou
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The diving center Lavandou Plongée is located at the Labbé quay, in the new Port of Lavandou. The sea outings take place from 8 am to 11:30 am and from 2 pm to 5:30 pm. The Lavandou Plongée diving school offers FFESSM and CMAS training courses from the first dive to Level 3. Adults and teenagers from 14 years old can take part in group or private diving lessons. Children can dive from the age of 8. They can do first dives, take advantage of a discovery pack, and benefit from Bronze Diver, Silver Diver, or Gold Diver training. You benefit from comfortable facilities with showers and toilets in the port near Lavandou Plongée. Wifi is free for divers. Divers can take advantage of a spacious classroom, the on-site air inflation station, and free parking on the club's roof! Ask for the inflation of your Nitrox block for an optimized deco in case of deep immersion or long duration. Lavandou Plongée provides you with up to 100% oxygen. Bring your rebreathers, as bails-out and lime are available on reservation. The rental equipment is changed regularly and you have 6l, 12l, 15l, 18l tanks, and 6l deco blocks. The best dives of Port-Cros and Porquerolles are accessible by half-day from Lavandou Plongée for all divers with a diving certificate, whatever the organization, in order to satisfy all levels of divers. Day trips to the Port-Cros and Porquerolles National Parks include 2 dives with a stopover in Port-Cros. The most beautiful dives in Le Lavandou are accessible to self-guided groups of at least 10 divers: the 11th diver gets free diving and accommodation! [+]

  • Showers
  • Free Parking
  • Classrooms
From 31,00 €

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Abyss Underwater World Explorers Nice
France  - Nice
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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 [+]

  • Tek Center
  • Welcome groups
  • Between 20 and 30 dive sites
From 0,00 €

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Where to see, swim, and dive with Big Hermit crab ?

France - Bandol, Sanary,-sur-Mer, Six-Four-les-Plages,ToulonFrance - Cannes, Mandelieu-le-Napoule, Théoule-sur-MerFrance - Carry-le-RouetFrance - CorsicaFrance - Golfe-Juan, Antibes and Villeneuve-LoubetFrance - Hyères, Bormes-les-Mimosas, La Londe-les-Maures and Le LavandouFrance - MarseilleFrance - Mediterranean seaFrance - Menton and MonacoFrance - NiceFrance - Sainte-MaximeFrance - Saint-TropezFrance - Snorkeling at Port-CrosItaly - Europe's largest Marine Park, in MarettimoItaly - the Marine Park of Naples, Area Kingdom of NeptuneItaly - the Marine Park of Naples, the Parco Sommerso di Gaiola Sardinia - CannigioneSardinia - Loiri Porto San PaoloSardinia - PalauSardinia - the National Park of the Maddalena ArchipelagoSicily - MarettimoSicily - Ustica IslandSpain - L'Estartit, Costa Brava

Best season :

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France - Var
France - Alpes Maritimes
France - Bouches du Rhone
France - Corse
Italy - Marettimo
Italy - Naples
Sardinia - Cannigione
Sardinia - Loiri Porto San Paolo
Sardinia - Palau
Sicily - Marettimo
Sicily - Ustica
Spain - L'Estartit
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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