Gilt-head seabream
Swim, Snorkel, Dive, See, Meet, Watch the Gilt-head seabream
The Royal Sea Bream has an oval silver-grey body with a golden band on the forehead and cheeks, earning it the nickname "Golden-browed Beauty". It reaches a size of 50 cm long and weighs 2 kg.
It lives alone or in small groups, at shallow depths, in Posidonia meadows and sandy bottoms up to a hundred meters deep. It has been turned into a farmed fish.
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Sparus aurata
Macro
Daurade, Dorade royale, Gilt-head seabream
Food
The Gilt-head seabream is a carnivorous fish and from time to time, a herbivorous one. It can crush the shells of its prey. It, therefore, feeds on mussels, oysters, shrimps, small crabs, sea urchins, and fish.
Breeding
The gilt-head seabream is first a male and becomes a female around the age of three and a length of 40 cm. It can live for eleven years. It reproduces externally.
Dive centers
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Plongée Club de Cannes
France
- Cannes

Fred and Véro welcome you aboard the Sylpa in the old port of Cannes, on the Quai St Pierre. This boat of the Plongée Club Cannes can accommodate 43 divers. The equipment and the inflation is on board, and you can leave your personal equipment on the spot.
Open every day from April to November, it is possible to make two dives per day. The dive center is also open during the low season, every weekend and during the week by reservation.
From Saint-Honorat Island to Sainte-Marguerite Island via La Fourmigue, the dive sites are quickly accessible. Tailor-made group packages with dives and accommodation are available. It is possible to do FFESM and PADI training, from beginner to advanced level. Whether with family or friends, you can also discover the richness of the Cannes seabed by snorkeling with the Ile de Lerins Tour, a 3 hours outing with the equipment included. [+]
- Functional boat
- Popular dive sites
- Welcome groups
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Ocean VID
France
- Marseille

The Ocean 1 boat, the real diving center of Ocean VID, is located in the marine city of Port la Galère, in Théoule-Sur-Mer, 25 minutes from Cannes airport, on the French Riviera. You can easily park your car in the secure car park. Embark with Arnaud Guillaudin for a beautiful trip to the Mediterranean! Visit the islands of Lerins as well as the Golden Islands with Port Cro and Porquerolles. Dive the most beautiful wrecks of the Mediterranean such as the Togo, the Rubis, the Donator, the Ville de Grasse.
Decide to rent the Ocean 1 boat by the hour, half-day, or day, for the duration of your choice, to create your unusual event whether it is a wedding, birthday, seminar, stag, or hen party! Let your imagination run wild! Onboard, you benefit from a dedicated diving instructor, great safety with state-of-the-art equipment, the comfort of a modern cabin cruiser.
Highly personalized PADI training is offered to divers through the Ocean VID Dive School, from Discover Scuba to Divemaster level. Nitrox, deep, and boat specialties are also offered. Discover the underwater world with fins and snorkels, while snorkeling. Going on a trip to the other side of the world to meet sharks, dolphins, and manta rays? Take the time to rehabilitate yourself if you haven't dived for a long time or to pass levels to enjoy your diving trips even more. [+]
- Comfortable boat
- Wrecks
- Diving around Islands
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Ecole de plongée d’Ile Rousse
France
- Ile Rousse

The EPIR diving center is located in the fishing port of Ile Rousse, in the Balagne region of northern Corsica. Open from March to November, EPIR has a parking lot near its premises, to unload your equipment. On-site, state-qualified instructors who are also PADI instructors will welcome you and guide you in your choice of training. The EPIR diving school offers FFESSM and PADI training courses from the first dive to level 4, dive guide.
The EPIR training center also organizes 2 weeks in a hyperbaric environment for professionals, in Scuba Class 1B or Class 2B, with a package of accommodation, catering, and courses. EPIR promotes PADI E-Learning to validate the theoretical part of the preparation for a diving level. With this method, you do your theoretical courses at home and then you do your dives at Ile Rousse during your vacations. This is a way to enjoy your stay without the theory courses on site.
Embark on the EPIR boat to go to the most beautiful dive sites of Calvi when the weather conditions allow you to go west, as well as to the dive spots of Ile Rousse, nearby. EPIR can offer you diving packages for couples, families, and groups. For non-divers, the beach of Ile Rousse is located at 100 meters from the premises. Boat, sailboat and speedboat rentals, windsurfing, and jet ski rentals are available. Otherwise, take a nice walk to the market of Ile Rousse accessible in 10 minutes by foot. [+]
- Near Downtown area
- Nautical activities
- Near Downtown area
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Plongée Bleue Banyuls
France
- Banyuls-sur-Mer

Blue Diving is a small friendly structure located in Banyuls-sur-Mer, in the south of France. Board the boat in Banyuls-sur-Mer to go and discover the underwater wealth of the Cerbere-Banyuls Reserve and the Cap Creus Nature Reserve in Spain. You can also explore the dive sites along the Côte Vermeille and their wrecks. The sites are accessible to all levels, from beginner and advanced divers, coming individually or in groups. The offered service is personalized and takes into consideration everyone’s needs and desires, with the objective of diving safely. Blue Diving is also a diving school in Paris. You are trained during the whole year in the diving pit of Charenton le Pont, in Paris. Then you come and validate your training in natural environment. You can discover the pleasure of Scuba diving when on holiday in Banyuls and continue in Paris the rest of the year ! [+]
- Near Downtown area
- Friendly atmosphere
- Protected Marine Park
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SubTortue Diving
France
- Lecci

Sub Tortue Diving is located in the bay of Saint Cyprien, 10 mn from the Cerbicales Islands Nature Reserve, south-east of Corsica. The place is ideal for snorkeling, discover Scuba diving, for levels 1 and 2 training, FFESSM and ANMP, or for PADI Open Water Diver and Nitrox training. Special diving program for children according to their age, physical and psychic abilities. Coached by certified instructors. They welcome confirmed divers with 10 sites accessible from level 2. Group diving is also possible because SubTortue puts the infrastructure, the boats and the great knowledge of the most beautiful sites in the region at the disposal of the group leader. Group rates available from 10 divers. Packages including 7 nights’ accommodation to share, half or full board and 10 dives. Snorkeling allows you to discover the fauna and flora of the Mediterranean without a lot of equipment and enjoy being in the water and have the feeling of freedom of movement. The 2 semi-rigid boats, the 8.50 m Zepelin and the 6,20 m Vanguard, are quickly on dive sites. The majority of the dives takes place in the Cerbicales Islands Nature Reserve with a great diversity of fauna, from Flabelines to Groupers, with pelagic fish such as Dentis and Amberjack. Fauna and flora mainly fixed. Very rich and colorful subjects, ideal for macro photographers. A must-see is the wreck of the Pecorella cement boat, 45 m long, in the Gulf of Porto-Vecchio. In the Lavezzi Nature Reserve, dive to the Sec of the Pellu, a dry rock nicknamed Mérouville, known for the thirty Groupers living there. Octopuses, Spiders, large Cicadas, Moray Eels [+]
- fast boat
- Youth diving
- Protected Marine Park
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