Dive Review of Cente des Islets in
Guadeloupe (Caribbean)/Cousteau Marine Park/Pigeon Is

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Cente des Islets: "Lovely reef but no photography in the Cousteau marine reserve!!", Mar, 2024, by Keith Willmott, FL, US ( Contributor 17 reports with 8 Helpful votes). Report 13095.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food	N/A
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
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Comments	Turned up at the small dive shop on the beach at 7.30am to find a bunch of divers already kitting up. Somewhat chaotic, we left most our stuff in the shop, space was limited on the boat. We dived the Franjack wreck, a 50x7m sand barge sunk in 1980s about halfway to Pigeon Island. Depth 23m at sand, wreck had lots orange, yellow and purple tubular sponges, small gorgonians, schools barjack & snapper, yellowfin grouper, black gr ... Subscribe to get the full story. Active subscribers continue reading here
Websites	Cente des Islets
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	Florida, Belize, Panama (Coiba, Pearl Is) St Vincent and Grenadines, UK, Red Sea (Sharm), Myanmar, Sulawesi (Wakatobi), Philippines (Mindoro, Palawan), Solomons (Guadalcanal), New Zealand (Poor Knights), Papua New Guinea, west Australia
Closest Airport	Point-a-Pitre airport	Getting There	Rented car at airport, 1 hr or so drive.
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm
Water Temp	24-24°F / -4--4°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	15-20 M / 49-66 Ft
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	NO CAMERAS ALLOWED IN THE RESERVE! Sorry, but I haven’t got over this yet. Photography was allowed on F ... Subscribe to get the full story. Active subscribers continue reading here

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Dive Review of Cente des Islets in Guadeloupe (Caribbean)/Cousteau Marine Park/Pigeon Is

Cente des Islets: "Lovely reef but no photography in the Cousteau marine reserve!!", Mar, 2024,

Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

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Reporter and Travel

Dive Conditions

Dive Policy

What I Saw

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Dive Review of Cente des Islets in
Guadeloupe (Caribbean)/Cousteau Marine Park/Pigeon Is