ORANJEPLAAT 83
Nederland, Zeeland
Oranjeplaat is a good dive site to visit in the winter. There's an abundance of small creatures at the base of the dike and the chain of the channel buoy is overgrown with mussels. The bottom is covered with red seaweed, oyster beds and sea squirts in orange and pink. Shrimp, pipefish and nudibranchs are regullarly found here, even as several species of crabs and gobies. Oranjeplaat is a popular surf spot, take a surface buoy on your dive.
Particulars
Enter Oranjeplaat right in front of the red channel buoy. The maximum depth at Oranjeplaat is 5 meters, this makes Oranjeplaat ideal for beginners.
Warnings
Avoid diving in boating season at Oranjeplaat. Boating channel. Don't make a free ascent.
ORANJEPLAAT Divemaps 1
- Divers Guide Map
- Detailed map
- Wreck map
- Local map
Distribution is illegal
ORANJEPLAAT Features
- Address
- Oranjeplaatweg, Arnemuiden
- Parking
- Parking on right roadside
- Distance
- 10 m.
- Suitable for
- All levels
- Permit
- N.v.t / NA
- Access
- Free access
- Facilities
- Restaurant, toilets (only in summer)
- Water
- Brackish, salt
- Tide
- n.v.t.
- Kind of dive
- Shore dive
- Current
- None
- Visibility
- 8 m.
- Average visibility
- 4 m.
- Depth
- 5 m.
- Bottom
- zand,oesterbanken
- Life
- Goby, crab, red weed, sponge, sea squirt
- Other recreation
- Beach, boating, yachting, surfing , sun lawn
- Emergency
- 112