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The Saint Malo Plongée Émeraude diving centre is located in Saint Malo, in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany. The premises, accessible to people with reduced mobility, are open from February to mid-December. The Club House area is a place to meet for coffee or tea. Two classrooms are equipped with video projectors and whiteboards. The 8m deep diving pool is heated and used for exercises. Men's and women's changing rooms are equipped with hot showers. A rinsing tank and storage cages for drying equipment are available. Nitrox, pure oxygen and helium are available. A truck transports the equipment to the boats. The Saint-Malo Plongée Émeraude training centre, which is also approved for professionals, organises FFESSM courses either in block courses or à la carte, whether for beginners with level 1 baptisms or for the more experienced, with levels 2, 3 and 4. From the age of 8, alone, with family, friends or in a group, everyone has their own air or nitrox diving programme. Meet at the centre for 45 minutes before walking to the boats at the Naye slipway. Your equipment is transported by truck. Embark on one of the boats, either the MacLow catamaran of 12 metres, which can accommodate 30 divers, or the semi-rigid Margatte or the 11-metre speedboat, Cassiopée. The best spots in the Channel are accessible to you with conger eels, lobsters, scallops, spiders, sea bass and pollack. Visit the German wrecks of the Second World War such as the Walter Darré and the Hinrich Hey, the M4600, the RO 21 cargo ship, the V213. The wrecks of turn of the century steamers such as the Hilda, Skeldon and Fetlar are still recognisable. The most beautiful wreck in Saint-Malo? It is the meteorological frigate of the French Navy. [+]

The Cap Trébeurden diving school is located in Trébeurden, on the Pink Granite Coast, in the Côtes d'Armor. Cap Trébeurden is a national federal base approved by the FFESSM, whose aim is to develop and promote knowledge of the underwater world. Open all year round, except for Christmas and New Year, you are welcome from October to May, Monday to Friday, from 9am to 12pm and from 2pm to 6pm. This period is reserved for the training of professional divers. From June to September, Cap Trébeurden is open from 8am to 7pm. During July and August, it's continuous day! The Cap Trébeurden training school offers FFESSM courses for recreational diving with baptisms, Discovery packs and levels from 1 to 4. Extended weekends such as Ascension and Pentecost are reserved for groups. The CAP diving club also provides training for professional divers class A and B, which takes place at the Pôle Phoenix in Pleumeur-Bodou with classrooms, equipment maintenance, workshop, welding box, dryer, initiation pool and hyperbaric chamber. Concerning the outings in the natural environment, whatever the weather, the Kerdaniou quarry in Bégard, 40 metres deep, is used for these professional training courses certified in accordance with the regulations of the Ministry of Labour. For recreational diving, go to the main building in Trébeurden which includes a reception office, classrooms and an underwater biology laboratory. A club-house, the campsite with mobile homes, a drying room and a sanitary block complete this beautiful infrastructure. In the marina of Trébeurden, Cap Trebeurdin has a room with diving equipment, an inflation station, changing rooms, toilets and showers. Embark on one of the two RIBs, Axot and Gwen Braz or on the school barge, Chimède, or on the new aluminium boat with a capacity of 30 divers. [+]

The Plougasnou diving center is located on the Diben fishing port, in Plougasnou, in Finistère. Open all year round, you will benefit from comfortable facilities with, on the one hand, a reception desk, a classroom and changing rooms and, on the other hand, an equipment room and a dryer. The diving equipment available for hire includes 7 mm thick wetsuits for men, women, and children. The Plougasnou Diving School offers PADI courses from beginner level with the Discover Scuba Diver to instructor level with several IDCs per year. You will board the Plougasnou Plongée boats, La Bretonne and Le Toukenn, located 20 m from the premises. One is a 12m boat with a covered sundeck, a forecastle, and a comfortable saloon and the other is an aluminum boat, approved for 10 divers. The mixture of fresh and saltwater in the Bay of Morlaix allows for the proliferation of specific underwater fauna and flora. Dives take place around numerous islets, the Château du Taureau and La Pointe de Primel. Go around the islands to observe the grey seals! During the 40-minute navigation, a briefing is given on local legends and seal behavior. The observation mission includes counting and identifying the seals through photos. Bring warm clothes for the late afternoon. Families can enjoy a variety of snorkeling trips to discover the area in a different way. No swimming ability is required. The duration of the tours varies from 30 minutes to 2 hours, depending on your physical condition. You swim in a wetsuit, with mask, snorkel, and swim boards over a beautiful granite plateau. [+]

Aber Wrac'h Plongée is located in Landeda, Finistère, in the west of France. Aber Wrac'h Plongée is open all year round. The infrastructure of Aber Wrac'h Plongée is adapted to the comfort of the divers, in the heart of the deep water harbor, a few steps away from the shops. Aber Wrac'h Plongée offers you the whole range of FFESSM training courses from the baptism to the level 3 initiation as well as explorations. The dives at Landeda are done along the Côte des Légendes, near Aber Benoit up to the Ile Vierge. Expect also nice dives with an abundant fixed fauna on the Roche aux Moines, Basse Marie, La Grande Fourche. When the weather allows it, take advantage of wreck trips such as the Elektra, a Greek cargo ship, sunk in 1963 on 20 m of water, or the Amoco Cadiz, a supertanker that ran aground about thirty years ago in the north of the Abers, in Portsall. The dives in Aber Wrac'h take place at a depth of 10 meters in the middle of a great wealth of flora and fauna such as sole, tilefish, edible crab, curlew, and sepiola. Don't miss the memorable observation of the grey seals. They live in a colony at the exit of the Aber, next to the lighthouse of the virgin island! Aber Wrac'h Plongée organizes very interesting organic courses. [+]

The Korejou Plongée diving centre is located in Saint-Pabu, in the North Finistère, 20 minutes north of Brest. Open from February to November, Korejou Plongée provides two trips per day, one in the morning and the other in the afternoon, with meeting times confirmed at the time of booking. The premises include a reception, rental equipment stock, men's and women's changing rooms with hot showers, sanitary facilities and an inflation station. The Korejou Plongée training centre offers PADI and FFESSM courses for adults and children, both beginners and advanced, from the first dive to Scuba Diver and from Open Water Diver to Rescue Diver. Children's certifications go from Tetardo to Aquaticus, and from Bronze Diver to Gold Diver. Ask to take the specialities of bio, wreck, deep, night and drift diving, as the dives at Saint Pabu lend themselves to this. In a friendly atmosphere, embark on a 7.5m RIB on the Stellac'h quay to go quickly to one of the 25 listed diving spots in Brittany. Discover with the Korejou Plongée club not only the richness of the biodiversity of Aber Benoît but also travel by boat from Porsall to the Virgin Island. Take the time to stay long enough to explore, with good weather, the mythical wrecks of the Amoco-Cadiz, as well as the Levenvale, the Elektra, the T-27 and the Podesta. And then go snorkelling with fins, mask and snorkel (PMT) and a wetsuit. Take the opportunity to see the seals endemic to the area. A minimum of 4 people is required to organise this unforgettable trip! [+]