Our day trips to the National Park of Port-Cros are legendary. Dive at La Gabinière with hundreds of barracudas and countless giant groupers and enjoy French lifestyle during lunch at Port-Cros harbor.

Our day trip to the National Park of Port-Cros takes place once a week. We travel by boat from our two diving centers Saint-Tropez (in the Kon Tiki directly on the beach of Pampelonne) and Hyères (in Campéole Eurosurf directly on the beach of La Capte) to the National Park of Port-Cros. Choose the right one for our dive center and come with us!

Mostly we dive between 10 and 30 meters depth at the small island south of Port-Cros, the l'îlot de la Gabinière. On the rocky slope, in addition to countless giant groupers between and on the rocks and hundreds of barracudas in the open water, mostly about us divers, also nudibranchs and many other fish are observed. We have also seen moonfish here.

The leisurely lunch break is spent in Port-Cros harbor. There are no disturbing cars, there are only a few footpaths between the houses and the fortress on the edge of the harbor, which can be explored while waiting for lunch. The delicious lunch is in menu form and served directly on the harbor overlooking the bay and the sea.

Our dive tanks will be refilled during the lunch break and there is nothing in the way of the second spectacular dive in the National Park in the afternoon on the way back to the dive center.

Bring along

  • Changing clothes and beach shoes for the lunch break
  • Some cash for lunch (special menus also available for vegetarians) and souvenirs you might want to buy

Did you know?

  • You do not dive and just want to go boating and go to Port-Cros? No problem, it's definitely worth it!

 

Le Relax

Handels-Frachtschiff

Anfahrtszeit: 15 Minuten, Tauchtiefe: 28m-34m

Der ehemalige Kutter wurde 1984 am Ende seiner Dienstzeit von der Französischen Marine versenkt, um im Golf von St. Tropez ein künstliches Riff zu schaffen. Das Wrack liegt unterhalb der Zitadelle von St. Tropez, ca. 800m vor der Küste.

Der gut erhaltene Eisenrumpf ruht aufrecht in einer Tiefe von 37m, stets von größeren Fischwärmen umgeben. Das ca. 30m lange Wrack ist insgesamt noch gut erhalten, die Decksaufbauten im Bugbereich können durchtaucht werden, wobei es stets wieder eindrucksvoll ist, wie das Licht durch die großen seitlichen Fenster fällt. In den mittleren Bereich des Schiffes sowie die Bugkabine sollte nicht eingedrungen werden, zahlreiche herabhängende Kabel machen dies zu gefährlich. Im Heckbereich kann die gut erkennbare Ruderanlage begutachtet werden.

Das Wrack liegt meist in etwas trüberen Wasser, Sichtweite meist bei 5 bis 10m, was allerdings durch den Fischreichtum mehr als ausgeglichen wird. Besonders häufig sieht man hier Drachenköpfe, von denen meist zahlreiche große Exemplare im Bereich der Bugkabine zu finden sind. Auch farbenprächtige Nacktschnecken können häufig beobachtet werden. Hinzu kommt, daß das Wrack stark mit Gorgonien bewachsen ist.

Das Wrack kann bei einem Tauchgang gemütlich umrundet und durchtaucht werden, die Grundzeiten ermöglichen einem gewöhnlich auch noch mehrere Fotostops.

 

Sardinaux

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Diving Map

Our numerous dive sites in a practical overview on our interactive dive site map for the Saint-Tropez / Port Grimaud area.

Wrecks

The many WW1 and WW2 wrecks, such as the submarine Rubis, the destroyer Poursuivante and cargo ships such as the Togo, the Prophète and the Relax are world famous and promise a first-class diving destination that is second to none.

Port-Cros

Our day trips to the National Park of Port-Cros are legendary. Dive at La Gabinière with hundreds of barracudas and countless giant groupers and enjoy French lifestyle during lunch at Port-Cros harbor.

Reefs & rocks

Our reef dive sites such as Grotte Rouceau, La Grande que'rolle, Sardinaux and Rabiou l'Arche attract divers with beautiful rocks, gorges, cliffs and swim-throughs. The underwater flora and fauna attracts with gorgonians and many other colorful soft corals, huge schools of fish with thousands of barracudas, groupers, conger eels, moray eels and moonfish.

Nitrox and Trimix

Of course you can dive Nitrox or Trimix at our dive centers in Saint-Tropez and Hyères.

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