EXPLORARIUM · A diver’s logbooks
Explorarium by Jean-Luc
8 shared logbooks
I share my most memorable underwater encounters here. Through these logbooks, I invite you to join me beneath the surface and discover the life that makes every dive unique.
Autumn Twilight
Town, island or area : Hyères
12 species encountered
The sky hangs low, the sea is rough, and a fine drizzle falls on this November Sunday. We leave Port Saint-Pierre in conditions very different from those of our summer outings. The easterly wind, which…
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La Gabinière All to Ourselves
Town, island or area : Hyères
15 species encountered
October at La Gabinière. The sun is shining, the sea is calm and, unusually for such a popular dive site, there isn't another dive boat in sight. We have the western wall all to ourselves…
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The Rock of a Thousand Lives
Town, island or area : Hyères
15 species encountered
We have already been descending for a while. Anne, Siu, Fred and Daniel surround me. Our bubbles rise towards the surface in long strings, while strange translucent organisms occasionally cross our field of view. Little…
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The Perforated Rock
Town, island or area : Hyères
18 species encountered
The descent seems as though it will never end. Little by little, the colours disappear into a deep blue where only the beams of our torches still mark the way. The silence becomes almost tangible…
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Living Desert
Town, island or area : Hyères
14 species encountered
Sand stretches as far as the eye can see, immense and silent. Only a few rare outcrops break this vast plain, as though the rock barely dares to emerge above the sediment. In the pale…
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Cliffs Beneath the Sea
Town, island or area : Hyères
13 species encountered
As we descend, daylight fades into a soft, unreal blue glow. Rocky pinnacles gradually emerge. Two form a single massif before separating at the summit, while a third stands a little apart. Their sides plunge…
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Islands in the Blue
Town, island or area : Hyères
14 species encountered
A long descent gradually takes us into a blue-tinted night. Suddenly, in the beams of our lights, two coralligenous islets emerge from the sand, entirely covered in exceptionally dense, small purple sea fans. Numerous basket…
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Between Rock and Sand
Town, island or area : Hyères
14 species encountered
Rising from sand and maerl, sharp-edged rocky ridges form a row of petrified teeth. An old fishing net gradually merges into them, slowly absorbed by marine growth that, over the years, erases it from the…
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