Dennis Bakhuis

Dive site · quarry lake · The Liège stone quarries

🇧🇪 La Gombe

Esneux, Liège, Belgium

A flooded limestone quarry at Esneux in the Ourthe valley, and one of the standard deep-training pits of the Low Countries.

Dives here
2
Deepest
27.3 m
Water
fresh
First · last
2017 · 2024
Also known as
Carriere de la Gombe · Carrière de la Gombe

Revision 1 · changed 10 Oct 2026

History
  1. r1 10 Oct 2026 Imported from the personal log · Dennis Bakhuis

Site data © divelog-sites contributors (ODbL), descriptions and maps CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf

1 map

Zone interdite↓22 m↓15 m↓10 m↓10 mQuaiRampe17 m28 m16 m27 m37 m26 m34 m9 m38 m14 m62 m65 m · cap 335°96 m · cap 10°97 m · cap 35°35 m · cap 280°54 m · cap 10°51 m · cap 50°33 m · cap 110°0 Mise à l'eau1 Cabane2 Grotte2 Grotte3 Barque4 Kayak5 Tuyaux en S6 Sapin7 Char8 Avion9 Mangeoire10 Bateau10 Bateau10 Bateau11 Amphore12 Chaise13 Silo14 Ponton↓15 m15 Tuyaux16 Ponton↓7 m17 Miroir18 Horloge19 Tuyaux en L20 ClocheZone interditeN20 m
  • Entry / exit
  • Hazard
  • Point of interest
  • Aeroplane
  • Boat
  • Platform
  • Container
  • Pipe / tube
  • Tree
  • House / hut
  • Machinery
  • Other object
  • Shoreline
  • Depth contour
  • Wall / drop-off
  • Swim route
  • Other area
  • Depth
  • Along the line
Site map · 23 objects · 308 m of line · max 22 m

The numbered objects 0-20, the guide cables, the compass bearings from the entry, the 10/15/22 m zone boundaries (zones of -6, -10, -15, -22 and -29/-30 m) and the forbidden strip along the south-east wall, anchored on the OpenStreetMap jetty. Depths are given only for the two pontoons (15 and 7 m). The bus mentioned on club sites is not drawn. Positions are approximate.

Map © divelog-sites contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf

A worked-out limestone quarry at Esneux, south of Liège in the valley of the Ourthe, flooded when the face went below the water table. The rock is Carboniferous limestone — petit granit, the blue-grey stone that faces half the buildings in Wallonia.

Depths here reach 27.3 m in this log, which in a country with no coastline worth diving is what makes these pits valuable: they are the nearest place a Dutch or Flemish diver can do deep work in fresh water without a long drive.

Two dives, July 2017 and August 2024, both paired with Sprimont on the same day.

Dived here with

Benjamin Kim Rob Zaneta

Nearby sites

2 dives at La Gombe

Dives per year

  1. 3 Aug 2024 with Benjamin, Kim, Zaneta date3 Aug 2024 depth25.9 m time58 min water15 °C
  2. 15 Jul 2017 with Rob date15 Jul 2017 depth27.3 m time68 min water14 °C

Sources

  • First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)