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Anna-Jacobapolder offers two options. Dive in the former ferry harbor or on the outside of the harbor arm. Go in at high tide. You'll have better visibility and you'll get in and out of the water more easily. In the harbor you'll find an old mussel farm with beautiful mussel strands. The mussels are overgrown with felt weed, sea lettuce, wakame and other marine life in various colors. Here and there, mullet and sea bass swim around and the bottom is teeming with nudibranchs in all colors and sizes. The sloping dike makes an other interesting habitat. You'll see crabs, lobsters snails and much more. Diving in the old ferry harbor is relaxed because the current between the harbor arms is minimal. A dive outside the harbor is completely different. This will take you to the sloping dike wall via a mussel strewn bottom towards cuttlefish, goal and peat bogs. Particulars The old harbor of Anna Jacobapolder is easy accessible. Use the ropes along the shore to get in and out of the water. Descend and set course for the mussel strands, which usually are teeming with marine life. Anna Jacobapolder is especially beautiful with incoming sunlight as the splendid colors of the vegetation are even more pronounced. For a dive outside of the harbor you can best enter the water next to the footbridge. Hold on to the ropes hanging from the bridge. Underwater you'll encounter several areas with beautifully overgrown cuttlefish tents and at a depth of 12 meters there is a soccer goal. The object was once sunk to become an artificial reef and so it did. You'll see lobsters, crabs, snails, brick anemones and sometimes even a seahorse. If your air supply permits you can continue from there to dive site, De Veenplaten. Return tot the entry point in the shallows for a safety stop between weed growth and sometimes a school of sprat or anchovies. Now head for the shallows near the pontoon to exit. Warnings The entry points at Anna Jacobapolder can be slippery at low tide. Diving at high tide recommended. Avoid the fairway. Don’t dive deeper than 15 meters.