ANNA JACOBAPOLDER 72
Nederland, Zeeland
Anna-Jacobapolder offers two options. Dive in the former ferry harbor or on the outside of the harbor arm. Go in at high tide. You'll have better visibility and you'll get in and out of the water more easily. In the harbor you'll find an old mussel farm with beautiful mussel strands. The mussels are overgrown with felt weed, sea lettuce, wakame and other marine life in various colors. Here and there, mullet and sea bass swim around and the bottom is teeming with nudibranchs in all colors and sizes. The sloping dike makes an other interesting habitat. You'll see crabs, lobsters snails and much more. Diving in the old ferry harbor is relaxed because the current between the harbor arms is minimal. A dive outside the harbor is completely different. This will take you to the sloping dike wall via a mussel strewn bottom towards cuttlefish, goal and peat bogs.
Particulars
Use a rope if you want to dive in the old harbor of Anna Jacobapolder. Descend and set course for the mussel strands, which usually are teeming with marine life. Anna Jacobapolder is especially beautiful with incoming sunlight as the splendid colors of the vegetation are even more pronounced. For a dive outside of the harbor there is a staircase with railings and grilles. Underwater you'll encounter several areas with beautifully overgrown cuttlefish tents and at a depth of 12 meters there is a soccer goal. The object was once sunk to become an artificial reef and so it did. You'll see lobsters, crabs, snails, brick anemones and sometimes even a seahorse. If your air supply is sufficient you can continue your dive to dive site, De Veenplaten. Return tot the entry point in the shallows for a safety stop between the weed, with sometimes a school of sprat or anchovies nearby.
Warnings
The entry points of the old harbor of Anna Jacobapolder can be slippery at low tide. Diving at high tide recommended. Avoid the fairway. Don’t dive deeper than 15 meters.
ANNA JACOBAPOLDER Divemaps 2
- Divers Guide Map
- Detailed map
- Wreck map
- Local map
Distribution is illegal
ANNA JACOBAPOLDER Features
- Nicknames
- AJP
- Address
- Rijksweg 5, 4675 RB Sint-Philipsland
- Parking
- Sufficient parking
- Distance
- 50 m.
- Suitable for
- Night diving, underwater photography, technical diving , inexperienced Oosterschelde divers (Open Water) under supervision, all levels
- Permit
- N.v.t. / NA
- Access
- Free access
- Facilities
- Small bench, hotel, divers stairs, mobile toilet , picknick table
- Water
- Salt
- Tide
- LW, HW en daarbuiten
- Kind of dive
- Shore dive
- Current
- Limited, variable
- Visibility
- 1 - 6 m.
- Average visibility
- 4 m.
- Depth
- 35 m.
- Bottom
- zand,sediment,oesters
- Life
- Botrylloides, crab, lobster, nudibranch, eel, sludge anemone, green sea finger or felty fingers or codium fragile, plumose anemone, sea lettuce, squid, seahorse , flutefish, stalked sea squirt, oyster, moon jellyfish, sea bass, catfish, lumpfish, starfish, blenny, dahlia anemone, thicklip grey mullet
- Other recreation
- Swimming , biking, fishing , rambling
- Emergency
- 112