Dive Centres Calais/Dunkirk area

[freddy326]

Hi,

Does anyone know of or have dived with any dive centres in the Calais/Dunkirk area??

thanks

regards

Freddy326

[chrisch]

There are no commercial centres there as the vis is so bad in that area. There are a couple of French clubs and a bloke called Eric Bonté is the man to talk to (provided your French is good ) He runs a club called, IIRC, club de L'Aa (after the river of that name).

From Dunkers head East into Belgium and Neuwport and there is a boat or possibly two (not sure if both still in business). Vis is still very hit and miss. There are some great wrecks there and the diving is fantastic when the water clears (so I'm told) The key is to be in touch with the locals and be able to go when conditions are good.

Sadly in our time on the mainland we never got it all together to dive our nearest sea

Chris

[freddy326]

thanks for that, I'll try to get in contact with Eric.

[Paul Oliver]

There are certainly clubs in Calais and Boulogne, and the diving off of there is great, we go over that side quite a lot from Dover

I have their addresses somewhere i will have a look. In fact i'm going to be in Calais all this weekend with some spare time so i will endeavor to visit the Calais Club

If you are web searching use the word Plongee and spell Dunkerque as i have which is the French way, Dunkirk is just outside of Canterbury

If you look here this is a video of a dive on HMS Hermes we did last year, an intact and inverted Pre WW1 Cruiser converted to Seaplane carrier in 32m roughly halfway between Calais and Dunkerque about 7 miles offshore

[Paul Oliver]

There are other clubs that travel quite a way out in their Rhibs to dive Mid-Channel wrecks. We met a club from Gent on the site of the Cuvier last year.

[chrisch]

Originally Posted by freddy326

thanks for that, I'll try to get in contact with Eric.

Here's their club.

Club Plongée de l'Aa

Bonne chance mon brave!!

Chris