Tombant de l'Île Verte (Calanque de Seynerolles)

The seaward drop-off on the south-east and east faces of Île Verte, with its clean open window to the Mediterranean over the SE through S. The ESE is only fringing open and the due-E is partly capped by the Saint-Cyr / La Madrague coast a few kilometres off, so the biggest wind-waves arrive from the S-SE on the long Scirocco (Marin) fetch. The strong NW Mistral is blocked by the island and the Bec de l'Aigle, leaving the landward W-NW-N sectors well sheltered. Microtidal Med water means no tidal current to plan around; surface state is wind-driven, so the site dives best in settled or Mistral conditions.