BARGES
Belgie
Barges is a well-maintained dive site in Belgian Hainaut. It's a beautiful quarry where in the past stone and lime used to be mined. Since 1958, the quarry is rented to several dive clubs in the region. Every dive has to be booked in advance and a small fee is required. During your dive in Barges you'll see remnants of the old mine such as cars, rails, a wagon, old tools and even buildings. Paid diving.
Particulars
Barges has a well-maintained infrastructure and is easily accessible. The spacious pontoon, with benches and diving steps, is reached via a long staircase. Barges has a lot of objects, such as five care wrecks. At depths between 28 and 40 meters are five buildings, one even being a three-story apartment.
Warnings
De Barges is only accessible for a few local diving clubs. Paid diving. Long staircases. Diving deeper than 40 meters is not allowed. Only experienced divers. Be prepared when you enter one of the buildings.
BARGES Divemaps 1
- Divers Guide Map
- Detailed map
- Wreck map
- Local map
Distribution is illegal
BARGES Features
- Nicknames
- De Barges
- Address
- Rue du Pont à Rieu, 7500 Tournai, België
- Parking
- Sufficient parking
- Distance
- 50 m.
- Suitable for
- Experienced divers
- Permit
- Vergunning vereist
- Access
- Guest divers on request
- Facilities
- Locker rooms , toilet, fill station
- Water
- Fresh
- Kind of dive
- Shore dive, limestone quarry
- Current
- None
- Visibility
- 2 - 6 m.
- Average visibility
- 4 m.
- Depth
- 48 m.
- Bottom
- zand en steen
- Life
- Perch, zebra mussel, carp, turtle, eel, pike, cray fish, pumpkinseed, catfish, sturgeon
- Other recreation
- None
- Emergency
- 112