Plunge beneath the turquoise surface of the Calanques National Park with a private marine biologist guide and discover a pristine Mediterranean coral wall teeming with grouper, moray, and sea fans.
What to expect
Your guide, a certified PADI instructor and marine ecologist, meets you at Marseille's Vieux-Port and transfers you by private RIB into the Calanques — a UNESCO-listed fjord landscape of bone-white limestone plunging into turquoise sea. You kit up on deck before dropping into 18–25 metres of gin-clear water where a coral wall blooms with red gorgonian fans, violet sea urchins, and circling dentex. Surface intervals are spent in secret coves with chilled rosé and charcuterie. An experience as rarefied above water as below.
Good to know
Minimum Open Water certification required; introductory dives available for non-certified guests. Marseille calls typically begin at 08:00; a half-day dive excursion fits comfortably within port hours. Book the private boat option directly to guarantee site exclusivity.