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Sparkling and stressless
Martinique island... No doubt that you never had in mind such a destination for diving. However, despite all those who only swear with Maldives and Egypt diving, dives do deserve your best consideration : • 6 to 7 sunny hours in the day. Just enough for making explode and spark the colours of the numerous corals and sponges. • Warm waters year-round (79°F - 26°C as a minimum, 86°F - 30°C as a maximum). • No temperature difference. Whatever the depth of your dive, you will have to go through a fresh current for feeling a decrease of temperature of ... horror! 2°F. A 3mm or 5 mm wet suit will be ok. And for the most cold sensitives, the hood... • Crystal waters year-round. • An horizontal visibility of more than 33ft (10m), and more than 66ft (20m) for the vertical visibility. Dive lights can be left at home. • Calm waters on the Caribbean side of the island, the dived coast. Forget the rough navigations, and the hard water entries. • A very changing sea-bed with grassy and sandy areas (white and black sand), walls, piles of rocks, coral reefs... from North to South, the caribbean coast offers a large palette of settings and ambiances. 4 different areas use to be dived : St Pierre - Le Prêcheur with its black sand and its walls, Anses d’Arlet with its rocky slopes, walls, canyons, sandy and grassy areas, the Diamond bay with its rock and coral walls, St Luce - Le Marin with its coral reef. • A strong diversity : 47 corals, 35 gorgons, 70 sponges, 18 sea urchins, 3 crinoids, 7 sea stars, 327 benthic fishes, 200 grasses, 2 sea turtles, 113 crustaceans...Diving in Anses d’Arlet
The diving area of Anses d’Arlet, this is : • The calmest surface conditions of Martinique island. • Less than 5 min of boating to reach the Burgos point. An uneven sea-bed with large and small walls, stretches of sand and grass, a quick access to dizzy depths, the largest density of fishes between Fort de France and the Diamond bay. • Less than 10 min of boating to reach Cape Salomon and the point “La baleine”. An homogeneous sea-bed composed of rocky slopes. A wide coral and sponge diversity. • At 10 min of boating, the only wreck in the south of the island. The Nahoon, a three mast wreck sunk by a depth of 115ft (35m). • More than 20 min of boating to reach the Diamond bay and especially its rock, which holes, the coral and grassy slopes and its huge crack make the dive so amazing and spectacular.
Selected dive spots around Les Anses d’Arlet
1. From Grande Anse d’Arlet to Anse Dufour : o Point “La baleine” o The Nahoon Wreck 2. On Cape Salomon ; o Salomon’s swimming pool o The Cape o Salomon’s gardens 3. From Anses d’Arlet to Grande Anse d’Arlet : o Point “La Lézarde” o The cavern of colours o The Jorasses (Burgos point) o Burgos Point o The Little Mermaid (Burgos Point) 4. From Petite Anse d’Arlet to Le Diamant : o The Madman Channel o Cockroach Cove 5. The Diamond Rock 6. The Diamond Bay o The wall of the Church o The Horseshoe
Diving in Martinique
Webmaster - Olivier Bezaudun
Photos - Olivier Bezaudun, J-Claude Rozet
Tous droits réservés - All rights reserved
Sparkling and stressless
Martinique island... No doubt that you never had in mind such a destination for diving. However, despite all those who only swear with Maldives and Egypt diving, dives do deserve your best consideration : • 6 to 7 sunny hours in the day. Just enough for making explode and spark the colours of the numerous corals and sponges. • Warm waters year-round (79°F - 26°C as a minimum, 86°F - 30°C as a maximum). • No temperature difference. Whatever the depth of your dive, you will have to go through a fresh current for feeling a decrease of temperature of ... horror! 2°F. A 3mm or 5 mm wet suit will be ok. And for the most cold sensitives, the hood... • Crystal waters year-round. • An horizontal visibility of more than 33ft (10m), and more than 66ft (20m) for the vertical visibility. Dive lights can be left at home. • Calm waters on the Caribbean side of the island, the dived coast. Forget the rough navigations, and the hard water entries. • A very changing sea-bed with grassy and sandy areas (white and black sand), walls, piles of rocks, coral reefs... from North to South, the caribbean coast offers a large palette of settings and ambiances. 4 different areas use to be dived : St Pierre - Le Prêcheur with its black sand and its walls, Anses d’Arlet with its rocky slopes, walls, canyons, sandy and grassy areas, the Diamond bay with its rock and coral walls, St Luce - Le Marin with its coral reef. • A strong diversity : 47 corals, 35 gorgons, 70 sponges, 18 sea urchins, 3 crinoids, 7 sea stars, 327 benthic fishes, 200 grasses, 2 sea turtles, 113 crustaceans...Diving in Anses d’Arlet
The diving area of Anses d’Arlet, this is : • The calmest surface conditions of Martinique island. • Less than 5 min of boating to reach the Burgos point. An uneven sea-bed with large and small walls, stretches of sand and grass, a quick access to dizzy depths, the largest density of fishes between Fort de France and the Diamond bay. • Less than 10 min of boating to reach Cape Salomon and the point “La baleine”. An homogeneous sea-bed composed of rocky slopes. A wide coral and sponge diversity. • At 10 min of boating, the only wreck in the south of the island. The Nahoon, a three mast wreck sunk by a depth of 115ft (35m). • More than 20 min of boating to reach the Diamond bay and especially its rock, which holes, the coral and grassy slopes and its huge crack make the dive so amazing and spectacular.
Selected dive spots around Les Anses d’Arlet
1. From Grande Anse d’Arlet to Anse Dufour : o Point “La baleine” o The Nahoon Wreck 2. On Cape Salomon ; o Salomon’s swimming pool o The Cape o Salomon’s gardens 3. From Anses d’Arlet to Grande Anse d’Arlet : o Point “La Lézarde” o The cavern of colours o The Jorasses (Burgos point) o Burgos Point o The Little Mermaid (Burgos Point) 4. From Petite Anse d’Arlet to Le Diamant : o The Madman Channel o Cockroach Cove 5. The Diamond Rock 6. The Diamond Bay o The wall of the Church o The Horseshoe
Diving in Martinique
