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Rainbow wrasse

Swim, Snorkel, Dive, See, Meet, Watch the Rainbow wrasse

The Rainbow wrasse has a slender, long, cylindrical body with a height of 25 cm. Females have a brown back with a white stripe along the flanks. The Rainbow wrasse evolves, alone or with other congeners, along the coasts up to a hundred meters deep, in rocks, along drop-offs and in posidonia meadows. It may occasionally clean another fish.

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Demoiselle, Rainbow wrasse

Food

The Rainbow wrasse is carnivorous and feeds on crustaceans, mollusks, sea worms, juvenile sea urchins, sponges, and fish eggs.

Breeding

The Rainbow wrasse has the particularity of being born female and finishing male according to its size and the number of individuals in the area where it evolves. It reaches sexual maturity at the age of one year. Males compete with each other to seduce females. Then, the couples will swarm their semen in open water for external fertilization. Then the eggs and larvae drift with the current.


Dive centers

 

Club de plongée Bastiais
France  - Bastia
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The Club de Plongée Bastiais is located on the Toga marina in Bastia, Corsica, in the south of France. Open from March to October, the premises are spacious enough to accommodate groups, and are also accessible to people with reduced mobility. The Club de Plongée Bastiais has hot showers, changing rooms, storage lockers, and toilets. A shop allows you to buy small equipment. After the dive, you can meet on the shaded terrace to sign your logbook. A beach and a restaurant allow you to spend a pleasant moment between 2 dives. Embark on one of the two boats of the Bastiese Diving Club, which are moored in front of the premises. The Vanga II is an aluminum boat with a roof, 9 m long, with a capacity of 25 people. The Lucerna II is a semi-rigid boat for 24 people. The Club de Plongée Bastiais specialises in FFESSM training. The Club de Plongée Bastiais specializes in FFESSM training and offers first dives and rehabilitation dives for those who have not been in the water for some time. These dives take place in a rocky cove at the foot of the citadel of Bastia, in Ficaghjola. Different explorations on wrecks, rocks, and drop-offs are offered to certified divers according to their level, with a visibility of 10 to 25 m depending on the season. Level 1 divers have access to La Roche de l'Oursin Blanc, Yoco and La Roche. Nice surprises await you at La Louise and on the American fighter P47 Thunderbolt, at a depth of 20 m. Level 2, you can dive around the rocks at Les Gorgones, Cinquini, Les Vallons, Elvina and La Roche à Guy. The Heinkel 111 bomber, at a depth of 33 metres, will no longer hold any secrets for level 2 divers! [+]

  • Friendly atmosphere
  • Near the old town
  • Showers
From 40,00 €

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Aqua Evasion
France  - Gignac La Nerthe
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The diving center Aqua Evasion is located in Gignac la Nerthe. Run by Xavier and Laure Trubert, Aqua Evasion is open 7 days a week, including holidays, by appointment, from 8 am to 10 pm. The Aqua Evasion diving center is composed of a store, a high-performance inflation station for filling cylinders with quality air, a workshop for equipment maintenance, leakage tests as well as a test bench for regulators adjustments. The Aqua Evasion dive center offers training courses in a large classroom especially equipped for first aid. The boarding on the Aqua Evasion boat takes place at the port of Carry-le-Rouet, at the P. Malleville quay. The transfers of the divers and the equipment, of a duration of 16 minutes (distance 11 km) from Gignac to the port of Carry, are carried out with the vehicles of the center Aqua Evasion, respectively of 5 and 7 places. At the Aqua Evasion diving center, the 20-seater Lomac boat is ideal for families and groups, with or without the instructor on board. Aqua Evasion offers a wide range of diving sites around the harbor of Marseille with rocky bottoms, beautiful drop-offs, the Planier, the Frioul, the Elvine, and the numerous wrecks Chaouen, Dalton, Messerschmitt. The snorkeling trips take place in the creeks. The Quicksilver boat, belonging to Aqua Evasion, and moored at the Vayssière quay, is used to pass the boat license. [+]

  • Accomodations
  • Functional boat
  • Boat rental
From 60,00 €

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Le Brusc Plongée
France  - Six Fours les Plages
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The Brusc Plongée diving center is located 30 meters from its boats, in the port of Le Brusc, near Six-Fours-les-Plages. There is a paying parking lot, 20 meters away from the Brusc Plongée diving center. You can leave your equipment in front of Brusc Plongée, then park further away. On the spot, you have a 50 m² store with a reception area, rental equipment, changing rooms, and space to store your equipment, as well as an area for selling equipment and accessories. The inflation of the blocks takes place on the spot, with 2 compressors. You will embark on Brusc Plongée aluminum catamaran, the Matata, 10.50 m long, sailing at 8 knots and carrying 34 divers. The launch is done by a straight jump from the back platform with a return dive using the 2 parrot ladders. Also coming aboard the Rubis, a semi-rigid boat with a capacity of 10 divers. It is ideal to go to small creeks or to drop experienced divers on dry land falling between 20 and 40 meters deep. It also allows you to reach remote dive sites such as the 2 Brothers, the Arroyo, and P38 Wrecks. The Brusc Plongée Diving Center also offers discovery diving courses for children. You have at your disposal the whole range of SSI and FFESSM diving courses from the baptism to level 4, and from Try Scuba to Divemaster. Scuba diving is for everyone. Whether you are an autonomous diver or whether you are supervised by a guide, you will discover the seabed off the island of Les Embiez, 20 minutes away by boat. Brusc Plongée offers you the ideal conditions to observe the fauna and flora of the Mediterranean Sea and to refine your knowledge of marine biology! [+]

  • Stay without a car
  • Near beach
  • Functional boat
From 20,00 €

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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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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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Where to see, swim, and dive with Rainbow wrasse ?

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