Top Snorkeling and Scuba Diving in La Teste-de-Buch

Training dive site The Flamment wreck is located 55m east from the buoy. Cazaux lake.

This wreck is a barge that was used to build a pipe from the coast (the warf). It sunk with the crane, so you can see caterpillars and a lot of pipes. There are a lot of conger eels and fish shoals. The wreck is located near the south danger buoy, after the Arcachon pass. It's only 1.6 nautical miles from the Wharf of La Salie. This is an interesting wreck. The worst is to get out of Arcachon bay. Pass can really be dangerous... Le Chariot is also known as Le câblier.

Training dive site. Note that there is a twin-engine plane wreck 150m north from the buoy. This dive site is located into the Cazaux lake. The buoy n°19 can be used by dive clubs for dive training. Cazaux buoy n°19 is also known as The plane wreck.

This is a quiet place to dive. The two dams limit the curent and you can observe at high tide fishes entering into the bay. Maximum depth was previously 14m. Channel sweep operation has put a lot of sand in the area, so now, there are only few meters depth at low tide... We need to wait the bay to resore the area. The site is located 50 m before the last road turn of the Pilat (when you drive along the coast to the South from Le Moulleau). Dive site is just betwwen two dams.

This wreck probably sunk at the end of 1940. It is a 50m long wreck broken into 3 parts. Mostly covered by sand now. South of the Dune du Pyla Le Bateau en Ciment is also known as Le Caméléon.

Most dived are 3 big blockhaus from World War 2 named the net, the conger and the passage (distance from one to another is between 30 to 50m). They slept from the beach into the chennal. Take care if you enter into some of them ! There are som big conger eels and some time european lobsters. Blockhaus are located south of the bay, after the Pyla dune and just befor the Petit Nice beach. There are a lot of underwater Blokhaus in the area, located into two diferent places: Gaillouneys and Sablonneys. Access is usually done by boat or by 4WD, some courageous divers walk by the shore. Les blockhaus is also known as Gaillouneys, Sablonneys.