Journée Découverte Plongée Souterraine

A full-day cave diving discovery course run by the CIP Marseille team out of Port de la Pointe Rouge. The center's professional arm, Immadras, has managed security operations in the Grotte Cosquer since 1995 — a submerged prehistoric cave under Ministry of Culture oversight — and that hands-on background informs how cave diving is taught here.

The full day format allows more time in the cave environment than the half-day initiation (112€), covering equipment handling and technique across more than a single dive. The grottos in and around the Calanques — La grotte du CNRS, La grotte Arc-en-ciel, La grotte Mystérieuse, La Grotte à corail among others — provide the training sites.

This discovery day sits in the middle of the cave diving progression at CIP. The two-day structured cave course runs at 416€ and the advanced three-day course at 580€. All are taught by the same team that conducts archaeological survey, 3D scanning and security work in a real submerged decorated prehistoric cave.

For the Cosquer work specifically, CIP and Fugro partnered from 2015 on 3D digitization of the cave — first for scientific data, then from 2017 toward the replica inaugurated in 2022. Divers training in cave technique here are learning from the people who do it professionally.