PIKGAT 37
Nederland, Zeeland
Pikgat is a remote dive site with a limited biodiversity. The bottom consists of sand, mussel beds and some rocks. Spot eels, clam and lobsters between the mussels and watch how flatfish and small crabs hide in the sandy areas. The small parking lot lies on private grounds.
Particulars
Pikgat has a small parking lot located on private land. Avoid any inconvenience and park at dive site Kistersnol (36) or make a boat dive. Don't enter the water at the stairs but 500 meters further away at the bend in the breakwater. Explore the sandy bottom and the mussel beds in search of marine life.
Warnings
Professional fishing grounds, watch out for fishing gear. Boating channel, don’t make free ascents!
PIKGAT Divemaps 1
- Divers Guide Map
- Detailed map
- Wreck map
- Local map
Distribution is illegal
PIKGAT Features
- Nicknames
- Pikgat
- Address
- Nieuwe Koolweg, 4301 Zierikzee
- Parking
- Limited parking park at Kistersnol/Borredamme
- Distance
- 700 m.
- Suitable for
- No groups, no night dives from shore, advanced divers
- Permit
- N.v.t. / NA
- Access
- Private property
- Facilities
- None
- Water
- Salt
- Tide
- LW en HW
- Kind of dive
- Shore dive, boat dive
- Current
- Medium
- Visibility
- 2 - 6 m.
- Average visibility
- 3 m.
- Depth
- 30 m.
- Bottom
- zand,stenen,slib,mosselbedden
- Life
- Anemone, butterfish, green weed, goby, flathead grey mullet or striped mullet, lobster, oyster, flatfish, eelpout, red weed, catfish, sugar weed, lesser cylinder anemone, sea squirt, sea bass, bull-head or shorthorn sculpin, conger eel
- Other recreation
- None
- Emergency
- 112