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| Port-Louis |  
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Description:
Port-Louis is located on the upper east-north side of Guadeloupe. The divebase stretches from Grand Cul de Sac Marin (natural reserve listed by UNESCO) up to Grande Vigie's cliffs (extremity of the island). Because of its geographic specicifactions (a limestone plateau hollowed by the sea), the divebase results in a succession of underwater caves, arches and tunnels all along the coast, edged by sandy bottoms. | |
| Details: |
 Nearest commercial airport: international airport of Pointe-à-Pitre |
| Average watertemp: Min 25 - Max 30 oCelcius. |
| Average visibility: 30 Horizontal metres |
| Bottom composition: Sand, Slick, Corals, Mud, Rocks, Vegetation |
| Dive conditions: Ocean/Sea, Salt water |
| Seasonality: All year around. During hurrican season, some norhern diving sites are less accessible, (depending on the wind and sea\'s rough). |
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Marinelife in the area:
| Species | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | | | Coastal fish & Reef Life |  | | | | | | |  | | | | | | | lobster, angelfish, parrotfish, yellowtail snapper, octopus, white grunt, snapper...
| | | Common dolphins |  | | | | | | | | | | | |  | |
| | | Green turtles | |  | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | Moray eels | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | Pelagic fish | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | barracuda, palometa, tarpon, hogfish, African pompano...
| | | Stingrays | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Probability of encounter:  0%,  0 > 60%,  60 > 90%,  90 > 100%
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