Dennis Bakhuis

Dive site · lake · Dutch inland lakes

🇳🇱 Zandeiland 4, Vinkeveen

Vinkeveen, Utrecht, Netherlands

The one Vinkeveen island you can drive to, which is why it has thirty-nine dives against it and the others have two.

Dives here
39
Deepest
20.5 m
Water
fresh
First · last
2012 · 2020
Also known as
Vinkeveen ZE4 · ZE4 · Zand Eiland 4

Revision 2 · changed 18 Oct 2026

History
  1. r2 18 Oct 2026 Log titles removed from the aliases · Dennis Bakhuis
  2. 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

↓3 m↓5 m↓10 m↓15 mSteiger18 m20 m20 m26 m28 m38 m19 m22 m20 m18 m52 m · 330°29 m · 330°Instap 1Instap 2Platform↓18 mPlatform↓6 mBus↓10 mAuto↓10 mBotter↓10 mBoot↓10 mSpeedboot↓14 mSpeedboot↓16 mRoeiboot↓5.7 mRoeiboot↓10 mRoeiboot↓8 mRoeiboot↓7 mRoeiboot↓5 mZeilboot↓7 mBuis↓9 mVuurtoren↓9 mVuurtoren↓10 mVerkeersborden↓9 mFietsen↓11 mFiets↓8 mBarbecue↓8.8 mBanden↓10 mBoomstronk↓10 mWipkip↓9 mWipkip↓7 mWipkip↓7 mWip↓6 mKerstbomen↓15 mKerstboom↓9 mKerstboom↓6 mKerstboom↓9 mBoei↓12 mBoei↓19 mKubus↓3 mKubus↓10 mLantaarn↓10 mVee↓4 mTon↓7 mTon↓5 mTon↓8 mTon↓6 mTon↓7 mParkeerplaatsN20 m
  • Entry / exit
  • Buoy
  • Point of interest
  • Bus
  • Car
  • Boat
  • Wreck
  • Platform
  • Wipkip
  • Statue
  • Pipe / tube
  • Tree
  • Lighthouse / tower
  • Other object
  • Shoreline
  • Depth contour
  • Wall / drop-off
  • Swim route
  • Depth
  • Along the line
Site map · 43 objects · 289 m of line · max 19 m

The two lines, the objects and their depths at Eiland 4; shoreline and piers from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). The yellow zone buoys, placed from the PDOK aerial photos (2021 and current), sit in a row about 125 m off the quay over 170 m of shore, which matches De Meerkoeten's 'ca. 175 by 125 m' zone, and the lines run 330°. The line starts lie about 35–45 m off the quay beyond the shallow shelf; the entries are put where the 330° course meets the quay (the exact stairs are not known). All positions are approximate.

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

The Vinkeveense Plassen were dug for peat from the Golden Age onwards — turf for Amsterdam, leaving shallow water divided by legakkers, the long drying banks. Then in the 1960s and 70s they were dug again, for sand: the A2 motorway and the Amsterdam-Zuidoost development both came out of this lake, and took it down to an unheard-of 50 m in places. The spoil was heaped into a line of islands, the Zandeilanden.

Zandeiland 4 is the one with a road to it. Every other island needs a boat; this one you park at. That is the entire reason it accounts for 39 dives — 2012 to 2020, to 20.5 m, the longest 98 minutes — while Zandeilanden 8, 9 and 12 have one or two each.

The site itself has platforms, lines, sunken objects and a wall dropping off the island edge into the deep water.

The position was for a long time Zandeiland, a residential street in Meerhoven, Eindhoven, 92 km away, with all 39 dives sitting on it.

Dived here with

Britta Christiaan Daan Erwin Floris Guillaume Iva Kim Lucas Maarten Patrick Peter-Jan Rick Sander Sanne Sebastiaan

Nearby sites

39 dives at Zandeiland 4, Vinkeveen

Dives per year

Water temperature by month

Mean water temperature in °C; an empty month had no dives.

Mean water temperature per month at Zandeiland 4, Vinkeveen
MonthMeanDives
Januaryno dives0
Februaryno dives0
Marchno dives0
Aprilno dives0
Mayno dives0
Juneno dives0
Julyno dives0
August17.2 °C7
Septemberno dives0
Octoberno dives0
Novemberno dives0
Decemberno dives0
  1. 29 Aug 2020 with Kim, Sander date29 Aug 2020 depth11 m time60 min water18 °C
  2. 29 Aug 2020 with Guillaume date29 Aug 2020 depth11.4 m time51 min water18 °C
  3. 16 Aug 2020 with Daan, Kim, Sander dpvtraining date16 Aug 2020 depth20.5 m time76 min water11 °C
  4. 16 Aug 2020 with Daan, Kim, Sander dpvtraining date16 Aug 2020 depth10.5 m time58 min water18 °C
  5. 15 Aug 2020 with Daan, Kim, Sander dpvtraining date15 Aug 2020 depth11 m time60 min water18 °C
  6. 15 Aug 2020 with Daan, Kim, Sander dpvtraining date15 Aug 2020 depth9.8 m time66 min water19 °C
  7. 14 Aug 2020 with Daan, Kim, Sander dpvtraining date14 Aug 2020 depth11.2 m time98 min water19 °C
  8. 21 Dec 2019 with Kim date21 Dec 2019 depth13.3 m time47 min water—
  9. 12 May 2018 with Kim date12 May 2018 depth11.1 m time57 min water—
  10. 12 May 2018 with Christiaan date12 May 2018 depth9.4 m time52 min water—
  11. 1 Oct 2017 with Maarten date1 Oct 2017 depth8.5 m time25 min water—
  12. 1 Oct 2017 with Kim date1 Oct 2017 depth7.7 m time28 min water—
  13. 1 Oct 2017 with Kim, Maarten date1 Oct 2017 depth11 m time39 min water—
  14. 7 Aug 2017 with Iva, Kim date7 Aug 2017 depth14 m time39 min water—
  15. 5 Aug 2017 with Lucas, Sebastiaan date5 Aug 2017 depth14.7 m time35 min water—
  16. 6 Aug 2016 with Kim date6 Aug 2016 depth12.9 m time64 min water—
  17. 5 Sept 2015 with Kim date5 Sept 2015 depth13.1 m time44 min water—
  18. 30 Aug 2015 with Kim date30 Aug 2015 depth9.5 m time66 min water—
  19. 16 Aug 2015 with Kim date16 Aug 2015 depth14.6 m time81 min water—
  20. 13 Jul 2015 with Kim date13 Jul 2015 depth10 m time62 min water—
  21. 12 Jul 2015 with Kim date12 Jul 2015 depth10.8 m time72 min water—
  22. 15 Feb 2015 with Kim, Rick date15 Feb 2015 depth9.9 m time45 min water—
  23. 8 Nov 2014 with Kim, Patrick, Sanne date8 Nov 2014 depth10.8 m time50 min water—
  24. 5 Oct 2014 with Erwin, Kim date5 Oct 2014 depth9.4 m time62 min water—
  25. 5 Oct 2014 with Erwin, Kim date5 Oct 2014 depth8.2 m time76 min water—
  26. 26 Jul 2014 with Kim date26 Jul 2014 depth10.8 m time61 min water—
  27. 1 Jun 2014 with Kim date1 Jun 2014 depth10.8 m time59 min water—
  28. 1 Jun 2014 with Kim date1 Jun 2014 depth11 m time61 min water—
  29. 14 Sept 2013 with Floris training date14 Sept 2013 depth8.2 m time62 min water—
  30. 14 Sept 2013 with Floris training date14 Sept 2013 depth9.7 m time58 min water—
  31. 10 Aug 2013 with Floris date10 Aug 2013 depth11.3 m time52 min water—
  32. 23 Jun 2013 with Kim date23 Jun 2013 depth9.2 m time42 min water—
  33. 12 Oct 2012 with Britta, Peter-Jan training date12 Oct 2012 depth10.2 m time51 min water—
  34. 16 Sept 2012 with Kim date16 Sept 2012 depth10.6 m time59 min water—
  35. 9 Sept 2012 with Kim date9 Sept 2012 depth10.9 m time60 min water—
  36. 31 Aug 2012 with Kim date31 Aug 2012 depth10.4 m time61 min water—
  37. 22 Jul 2012 with Kim date22 Jul 2012 depth11 m time55 min water—
  38. 22 Jul 2012 with Kim date22 Jul 2012 depth13.2 m time52 min water—
  39. 8 Jun 2012 with Kim date8 Jun 2012 depth11.2 m time52 min water—

Sources

  • First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)