Impressions
Here is a short video featuring wonderful impressions of our reef dive sites. Enjoy!
La Grande Quairolle
La Grande Quairolle is a spectacular rocky dive site off Cap Lardier, delighting divers with its steep walls, Mediterranean flora, and impressive gorgonians. The site descends to a depth of around 40 meters, offering varied dives along rocky edges, overhangs, and vegetated slopes. La Grande Quairolle reveals its most beautiful side particularly in the deeper zones – between 20 and 40 meters – where the potential presence of currents adds an extra layer of excitement and challenge to the dive.
Grotte Rouceau / Rocher de Pampelonne
The Grotte Rouceau – also known as the Rocher de Pampelonne – is a charming rocky dive site situated off the famous Pampelonne Beach near Saint-Tropez. Steep walls, canyons, small grottos, and natural swim-throughs make this spot particularly diverse, ensuring a beautiful and richly textured dive experience.
Amidst algae-covered rocks and open blue water, divers encounter gorgonians, soft corals, barracudas, groupers, moray eels, and conger eels. This makes Grotte Rouceau an ideal dive site for anyone wishing to experience the quintessential underwater landscape of the Côte d’Azur, complete with fascinating topography and abundant marine life.
Les Sardinaux
The Sardinaux, located near Sainte-Maxime in the Gulf of Saint-Tropez, is a versatile dive site that delights visitors with its rocky underwater landscape, seagrass meadows, and tranquil atmosphere. Depending on the chosen route, the spot is suitable for both relaxed dives at shallow depths and deeper explorations reaching down to approximately 40 meters.
Underwater, divers can expect a varied Mediterranean landscape featuring rocks, small crevices, sandy passages, and typical coastal marine life. This makes Les Sardinaux an ideal dive site for training, nature observation, and enjoyable dives near Saint-Tropez.
Rabiou l’Arche
Rabiou l’Arche ranks among the most beautiful rocky dive sites near Saint-Tropez, captivating divers with a spectacular underwater landscape of arches, rock pinnacles, canyons, and sheer walls. The dive typically traverses a textured plateau and passes through the eponymous arch, before – depending on the chosen route – opening up into deeper couloirs and impressive rock formations.
At depths of approximately 19 to 36 meters, divers can expect to encounter not only varied topography but also colorful gorgonians and typical Mediterranean marine life – including barracudas, groupers, moray eels, and congers. Consequently, Rabiou l’Arche is an ideal spot for anyone looking to discover a dive site near Saint-Tropez that is both scenically spectacular and teeming with life.