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🇧🇪 Put van Ekeren
Antwerp, Belgium
A clay pit on the northern edge of Antwerp, sixteen metres deep, squeezed between the city and the port.
- Dives here
- 1
- Deepest
- 16.3 m
- Water
- fresh
- First · last
- 2025
- Position
- 51.2836, 4.3924
Revision 1 · changed 10 Oct 2026
History
- 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
- Entry / exit
- Hazard
- Point of interest
- Marker
- Statue
- Other object
- Shoreline
- Depth contour
- Wall / drop-off
- Guide line
- Depth
- Along the line
The west end of the Put van Ekeren with the main entry by the jetty and beach, the wheelchair entry, the statue group Buddy, the piranha sign, amphorae, the guide lines and the 3/8/10 m contours (18 m deepest); east of the dashed line diving is not allowed. Shoreline and jetty from OpenStreetMap; positions are approximate. No object depths are given; the car wreck reported at the site is not drawn.
Map © divelog-sites contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf
The Put van Ekeren is a flooded pit on the northern edge of Antwerp, in the strip of land between the city and the container terminals. Sixteen metres deep, fresh water, and run as a diving and recreation water.
One dive, 17 August 2025, to 16.3 m for 90 minutes.
Dived here with
1 dive at Put van Ekeren
- 17 Aug 2025 with Erik, Evelien, Kim, Martijn, Rob date17 Aug 2025 depth16.3 m time90 min water16 °C