Marseille Calanques
France · Mediterranean
The Calanques National Park offers some of the Mediterranean's most dramatic diving — limestone cliffs plunging into gin-clear water, the Cassidaigne seamount drawing huge barracuda and dentex, and cathedral-like caves explored since Jacques Cousteau's era. May through October delivers the best visibility and warm surface temperatures.
How this reef is doing
ⓘ How we measure thisReef state
Live science signals for this reef are still being gathered.
Coral cover
Fish life
Heat
Fishing
Open to fishing, and the water is busy.
Sources · Global Fishing Watch and reef gravity
What you will see
22 species across the dive sites here
Mediterranean moray
Seen 20 days ago
at Cassidaigne Seamount
Least concern
Common octopus
Seen 23 days ago
at Ile de Riou
Least concern
Dusky grouper
Seen 23 days ago
at Cap Morgiou Wall
European barracuda
Seen 23 days ago
at Cassidaigne Seamount
Least concern
European sea bass
Seen 23 days ago
at Ile de Riou
Near threatened
Leopard Sea Slug
Seen 23 days ago
at Cassidaigne Seamount
Mediterranean Red Sea Star
Seen 23 days ago
at Ile de Riou
Pink Coryphella
Seen 23 days ago
at Cassidaigne Seamount
Red Scorpionfish
Seen 23 days ago
at Cassidaigne Seamount
Least concern
Scorpionfish
Seen 23 days ago
at Ile de Riou
Least concern
Sea fan (red gorgonian)
Seen 23 days ago
at Cap Morgiou Wall
Tricolored Felimare
Seen 23 days ago
at Cassidaigne Seamount
Black-Faced Blenny
Seen 24 days ago
at Grotte de la Triperie
Least concern
Saddled bream
Seen 24 days ago
at Cap Morgiou Wall
Least concern
European spiny lobster
Seen 29 days ago
at Grotte de la Triperie
Vulnerable
Common dentex
Seen 1 month ago
at Cassidaigne Seamount
Vulnerable
Conger eel
Seen 1 month ago
at Cassidaigne Seamount
Least concern
Posidonia seagrass
Seen 1 month ago
at Ile de Riou
Least concern
Greater amberjack
Seen 2 months ago
at Cap Morgiou Wall
Least concern
Mediterranean parrotfish
Seen 5 months ago
at Grotte de la Triperie
Least concern
Orange cup coral
Seen 10 months ago
at Grotte de la Triperie
Angel shark
Seasonal visitor
at Grotte de la Triperie
Critically endangered
Dive sites
Cassidaigne Seamount
european barracuda · common dentex · mediterranean moray · conger eel
Grotte de la Triperie
orange cup coral · european spiny lobster · angel shark · mediterranean parrotfish
Cap Morgiou Wall
dusky grouper · sea fan (red gorgonian) · saddled bream · greater amberjack
Ile de Riou
posidonia seagrass · common octopus · scorpionfish · european sea bass