Category Diving Overview

All over France in the mountain ranges, lakes are covered each winter with a layer of ice that is more or less thick. A small hole, and the adventure begins!

In France, there are not only 20-meter deep pits. There are also -12 and -15 meters pits that will allow you to dive all year round, to train or test your equipment before a backward roll, for example. All you have to do is make your choice!

From the very first concept of « treasure hunting » to the creation of the underwater investigation in 2018, a look back at thirty years of events that have brought together thousands of divers all over the world.

Organized by the PACA regional committee of the FFESSM, the week-long course that recently took place at the CREPS in Antibes allowed about twenty people with disabilities to practice diving. Here is a review of the organizers’ expectations and impressions gathered from a participant.

Countdown initiated for the 2019 AIDA Freediving World Championship, which will take place in the bay of Villefranche-sur-Mer from September 2 to 15. The athlete from Marseille, Morgan Bourc’his, who dreams of reclaiming his title in constant weight without fins, has been preparing for several months for his last world championships. He answered our questions a few days before the start of the competition.

This year, 5 French competitors participated in the CMAS-FFESSM Open Water Freediving World Championships held from August 6 to 11 on the island of Roatan in Honduras: Alice Modolo, Mireille Neff, Alouach Abdelatif, Thomas Bouchard, and Eddy Laffin.

Throughout the summer, discover the beauty of the Mediterranean coast and the importance of preserving it before even setting eyes on the Big Blue. Vinci Autoroutes, in partnership with the Galathea festival and the CPIE des Îles de Lérins and Pays d’Azur, is organizing an exhibition and awareness workshops for holidaymakers at the Arc area of the A8 motorway.

Do you want to start a diving or freediving course but live far from the sea or ocean? Do you want to train all year round, regardless of the weather? Pools and diving pits meet your needs. In France, there are about a dozen diving pits that are 20 meters deep, you just need to find the closest one to you!

All you need is a smartphone to now « dive » on the wreck of the Fetlar, which sank off the coast of Saint-Malo exactly 100 years ago.

The reputation of Saint Eustatius in the Caribbean for historical dives is well established. More recently, the island has recovered from the passage of Hurricanes Irma and Maria by discovering a new wreck that enriches its underwater museum…