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Roussillon and Aude, France

8 caves · down to 312 m

Cave diving in Roussillon and Aude

  • Caves8
  • Max depth312 m
  • Water temperature11–12.8 °C
  • Dive centres4
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  • Fill stationCAP Port-Vendres (Centre d'Activité Plongée)59 kmAir, nitrox 32/40/50, oxygen, trimix and CCR fills up to 300 bar (surcharge above 230 bar); custom blends too (O₂ and helium per m³)Route ↗
  • Fill stationPlongée Bleue (Banyuls-sur-Mer)63 kmAir, nitrox (membrane) and oxygen (B50 cylinders, booster for CCR) up to 300 bar; trimix not listed — askRoute ↗
  • Fill stationL'Argonaute (Ramonville-Saint-Agne, Toulouse)117 kmAir (200 and 300 bar) and nitrox 32 (membrane); no trimix or O₂ listedRoute ↗
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Why come here

Around Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet and in the Corbières this is mostly explorers' ground: short, tight and shallow sump series with dry sections, climbs and lots of carrying, plus the long sumps of En Gorner in the Conflent. Everything calls for full cave certification and experience with restrictions; the water is cold, around 11–13 °C, and most descriptions date from 1970–2008. Bad air has been measured in the underground Verdouble and in the Mousque d'Aze, so do not breathe the cave air there. The springs react quickly to rain, and low water runs roughly from July to October. Font Estramar is closed, and En Gorner, Las Doux de Soulatgé and the Mousque d'Aze need permission.

Don't miss

  • Source de la Tirounère: pitch-dark, cold water and changing visibility in the karst spring of the Fanges–Paradet massif, where the FFESSM runs supervised discovery days.
  • Grotte d'En Gorner: an underground river beneath the Mont Coronat, greatly extended between 2016 and 2018, in 2018 by 25 divers over three days.
  • Résurgence du Bosc: an active underground river with eleven sumps, large 4 x 6 m galleries between S1 and S2 and a 217 m meander after S3.

On a rest day

  • Gorges de Galamus: A narrow gorge with a small road along the rock face and the Saint-Antoine hermitage, which seems to cling to the cliff.
  • Château de Peyrepertuse: A Cathar castle built along the length of a rocky ridge, high above Duilhac-sous-Peyrepertuse.
  • Château de Quéribus: A castle on a rocky peak above Cucugnan, known as the last stronghold of the Cathars.

All 8 caves

Configuration

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SiteMax depth
Barrenc de la Mousque d'AzePermission neededSidemount · Full cave52 m
Grotte d'En GornerPermission neededSidemount · Full cave42 m
Source de la TirounèreSidemount · Full cave13 m
Résurgence du BoscSidemount · Full cave24 m
Gourg de l'AntreSidemount · Full cave12 m
Las Doux de SoulatgéPermission neededSidemount · Full cave10 m
Font MaureSidemount · Full cave14 m

Certification requirements, configurations and trimix depths are estimates for planning. Always check them locally and dive within your training.

Map

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Dive centres and fill stations

4 dive centres, fill stations and instructors

  • Fill station

    CAP Port-Vendres (Centre d'Activité Plongée)

    Anse Gerbal (ancienne criée), 66660 Port-Vendres

    Fills
    Air, nitrox 32/40/50, oxygen, trimix and CCR fills up to 300 bar · Not listed — ask
    Website ↗Route ↗

  • Dive centre

    Plongée Bleue (Banyuls-sur-Mer)

    Port de plaisance, 10 quai George Petit, 66650 Banyuls-sur-Mer

    Fills
    Air, nitrox and oxygen up to 300 bar · Not listed — ask
    Training
    CCR
    Website ↗Route ↗

  • Fill station

    L'Argonaute (Ramonville-Saint-Agne, Toulouse)

    14 rue Hermès, 31520 Ramonville-Saint-Agne

    Fills
    Air and nitrox 32 · Tue–Fri 10:00–19:00, Sat 10:00–18:00, closed Mon
    Website ↗Route ↗

  • Independent instructor

    Frank Vasseur

    Works in: Ardèche, Lot, Hérault and Gard, Roussillon and Aude (based in Vendargues near Montpellier)

    Training
    Cavern, Intro to cave, Full cave, Sidemount, CCR, Trimix · TDI · Listing at the agency ↗
    Website ↗

Order: partners first, clearly marked as partner; then dive centres by distance from Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet and independent instructors by name. Not a recommendation: check what they offer yourself.

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Where to stay

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Practical info: rules, fills and emergency numbers

Emergencies

Access and rules

  • Permission needed: Grotte d'En Gorner (locked gate; key via the owner's property manager), Las Doux de Soulatgé (municipal water catchment; every dive needs the town hall's permission), Barrenc de la Mousque d'Aze (private land within hunting grounds), Résurgence de Dourgas (access path: owner's permission). The Tirounère supplies Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet's drinking water — check beforehand.
  • Information and clubs: plongeesout.ffspeleo.fr (FFS) describes dozens of sumps per département; the FFESSM cave-diving commission Occitanie Pyrénées Méditerranée (Maison régionale des sports, 7 rue André Citroën, 31130 Balma, 05 31 61 53 70) and the Pyrénées-Orientales commission (CODEP 66) run courses and discovery days.

Closed or restricted

  • Closed: Font Estramar (Salses-le-Château) — private land and, since 2018, a municipal ban on the underwater galleries; specially authorised explorers only.

Gas and fills

  • Gas: trimix, O₂ and 300 bar at CAP Port-Vendres (~1 h 20 from Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet, estimate); nitrox and O₂ up to 300 bar at Plongée Bleue in Banyuls (walk-in fills: ask); air and nitrox 32 up to 300 bar at L'Argonaute near Toulouse. No trimix fill found in the Aude or Ariège — bring your own gas or a booster.

Water and season

  • Water: En Gorner 11 °C, Font Maure ~12.8 °C, Font Estramar 17–18 °C and brackish. The springs react quickly to rain (Font Estramar within hours, the Tirounère within ~2 days, floods lasting ~12 days); low water in the region runs roughly from July to October.

Safety

  • Character: apart from Font Estramar and En Gorner, mostly short, tight and shallow sump series with dry sections, climbs and lots of carrying; most descriptions date from 1970–2008. Bad air has been measured in the underground Verdouble (Gourg de l'Antre, Las Doux de Soulatgé; O₂ down to 6.8%) and in the Mousque d'Aze: do not breathe the cave air there.

Good to know

  • Not cave dives: Font Dame near Salses (impenetrable fissures under a marsh), Gouffre de l'Œil Doux near Fleury (lake ~12–14 m deep without a passage; bathing banned), Fontestorbes near Bélesta (protected site since 1921; no dive exploration known) and Labouiche near Foix (show cave visited by boat; the upstream sump was only dived as an exploration, in 2015). Further west in the Pyrenees (Arbas with the Goueil di Her and the Raymonde network, the Pierre Saint-Martin, Médous) there are only exploration sumps behind dry caves or deep in the gouffres, with rope work and porters: no sites for visiting teams.

News

News articles that mention one of the caves in this region, collected automatically and not checked by us.

Access and rules change: check what applies locally right before your trip. Source: GDELT Project and the news feeds of diving magazines.

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Compiled from web research (the FFS plongeesout.ffspeleo.fr site pages per département and accident list, FFESSM Occitanie Pyrénées Méditerranée reports 2011–2026, Wikipedia, Grottomap, Made in Perpignan, Francis Le Guen's blog, club reports by the Entente Spéléologique du Roussillon and Les Trogloxènes, Agence de l'eau Rhône-Méditerranée, Côte Indigo, Spéléo Secours Français, Medsubhyp, sante.fr and dive-centre websites; Sept 2026). Pins from plongeesout (GPS, checked against converted Lambert coordinates) and Grottomap; ~ = estimate (drive times too). Most site data are old (1970–2008). Rules change — check locally.