La Gabinière - Tombant Est

別名： Gabinière East wall · Ilot de la Gabinière - Tombant Est

The east face is fairly bare in the first metres, then rich scree with gorgonians, sponges and encrusting anemones leads to the sand. Groupers are the main attraction, often a dozen or more between 15 and 25 m, together with moray and conger eels, dentex, sea bass, mullet, sunfish and rays. Saint P'Hyères Plongée reports a school of about 200 barracudas around 10 to 20 m since 2001, and a huge boulder called the Dolmen that divers can pass under. Anchoring is forbidden on the east face, so the dive is done as a drift from the Calanque aux Loups or from a mooring in the Calanque Sombre. Current can be strong.