The most beautiful dive sites around Cassis

Take advantage of a family camping holiday near Marseille to discover diving in Cassis.

Le Tombant

The Tombant de Cassidaigne lies off the coast of Cassis Bay, at the end of the plateau bordering the Cassidaigne lighthouse. Pelagic fish, peacock wrasse and moray eels can be seen in the 45-meter depth. If you look more closely, you can spot long-clawed eels hiding in the holes.

Le Fortier

This Cassis dive is sheltered from the easterly wind. The Fortier rock starts at 25 meters and drops to 35 meters. Holes in the rock reveal sars, conger eels, dentex and capons. As this dive near Cassis is reserved for the most experienced divers, they’ll be lucky enough to encounter moonfish or barracuda.

Port Pin

Situated between the calanque de Port-Miou and the calanque d’En-Vau, Port Pin offers a sandy and pebbly seabed, until it is completely covered by posidonia meadows. A calanque with turquoise waters, Port Pin’s marine fauna is a victim of its own success.

The Arena

The 6-centimeter bottom of l’Arène reveals sepioles, flatfish, spirographs and other small fish. This dive in Cassis, on the edge of the Posidonia meadow, is for beginners only.

La Pointe Cacau

The Pointe Cacau dive is sheltered from the easterly wind and mistral. Thanks to its colorful drop-off starting at 15 – 20 meters and descending to 43 meters, you can admire conger eels, sometimes lobsters, groupers, a few squids or amberjacks. On the way up, you can stop between 15 and 9 meters to see 3 cannons.

Les Rascasses

The Rascasses dive, with a bottom of between 6 and 15 centimeters, is well sheltered from the easterly wind. Its boulder field is home to posidonia and nacres, moray eels, octopus, sauper, periclimene shrimp and the occasional syngnathus, barracuda and grouper.

Castel Vieil

The Castel Vieil dive is sheltered from the Mistral and offers a profusion of corals and gorgonians thanks to its rocky niches. You’ll find groupers and the occasional saint-pierre. At its maximum depth of 15 – 17 meters, you can encounter nudibranchs, and a little further up, at 9 meters, a small concretioned L-shaped tunnel.

Diving schools in Cassis

Cassis Calanques Diving

Located 30 meters from the port of Cassis, Cassis Calanque Plongée has welcomed many divers since 1956.
The center offers baptisms, explorations, training courses from level 1 to 4 (not forgetting children’s courses), twilight dives, discovery dives and technical dives in Cassis, for individuals or groups of 6 to 28 people. It’s possible to dive the most beautiful sites in the Parc National des Calanques, between Marseille and La Ciotat. The center offers a range of packages, from €80 for a first dive to €55 for an exploration dive.

Narval Plongée

Narval Plongée offers an unforgettable experience at the best sites in the Parc Naturel des Calanques. The center offers various training courses (for children, adults up to level 3, for future supervisors) and specializations (Nitrox, deep, Normoxic Trimix, underwater photography and biology…), baptisms, exploration dives and “sunset dives”, trekking, training courses, as well as the privatization of the boat for 4 hours to discover the calanques during a trip adapted to the diver’s level. Prices vary according to the activity: €68 for a baptism, €38 for a hike.