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Hi, thanks for your news from Turkey! Happy Diving! Best wishes.

Hi Loggerhead Turtle, thanks for your welcome! Belles bulles!

Hi there, Thanks for your positive messages! I have made friends with a PADI dive centre in Argeles, and went diving with them last weekend around Coulliore which was fun. Lots of lobster and nudibranchs, and big schools of bream and anchovies. It still looks unlikely I can work here in...

Hi Chrisch, thanks so much for your positive feedback! I am actually thinking of moving to Med side, as being in Hautes Pyrenees is not ideal for diving, unless you want to do ice diving in Piau Engaly... I think you are probably right about the attitude I am getting. I hope when I move to...

Thanks for the info, I will look into it. PADI has a bad name in France for some reason.

Thanks Phil, for your reply!

Thanks, Phil!

Hi guys, Has anyone ever had UK tanks tested in France before? I have a few 12 litre steel Faber tanks that I want to get tested, but because they originate in the UK, my french dive club informs me that they cannot be tested in France. This is the kind of thing that drives me crazy about...

Yup, guess that killed the conversation! lol

Thank you.

OK thanks, guys but I am even more confused now! ; )) I joined a french dive club last year just for pleasure, and they are all FFESSM and this system is benevolent, so they work their way up without getting paid. I have discussed with the club and the best "equivalence" they can offer me as a...

Hi, thanks for your reply. I know all about that, but the problem is to get a BEES, you need to go to Marseilles and spend about 2 years retraining all you already know, and it costs you 10,000 euros for the privilidge!

Hi everyone, I am a dive instructor based in France, which is a bit of an oxymoron if you are with PADI as France is the only country in the world where we cannot work! Anyone else in the same boat as me? Happy diving!

Hi, just joined this site, so thought I would introduce myself. I live in France, near the Pyrenees, bit far from the sea, but nearest places are the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean. Anyone diving around here?