Dennis Bakhuis

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🇳🇱 Zandeiland 8, Vinkeveen

Vinkeveen, Utrecht, Netherlands

One of the boat-access islands in the northern Vinkeveen lake, and the deeper end of the chain.

Dives here
2
Deepest
12.4 m
Water
fresh
First · last
2014 · 2020

Revision 2 · changed 18 Oct 2026

History
  1. r2 18 Oct 2026 Neutral geo_source; neutral description · 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

↓4 m↓6 m↓10 m↓14 mVeenwandKlein Wilnis↓16 mBootje↓14 mZeilboot↓7 mFietsen↓7 mStarttorenZeilhaven, zwemverbodN50 m
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Site map · 5 objects · max 16 m

The north side of Eiland 8 on the OpenStreetMap island outline (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), with Klein Wilnis, the peat formations, at 16 m on the north side. The brown ridge is one of the peat walls and the shaded strips are shallows; the barge on the east side and the Snoekentuin on the west side are not drawn. Boat dive site; positions and depths are approximate.

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

One of the spoil islands thrown up when the Vinkeveense Plassen were dug for motorway sand. Islands 8 and 9 sit in the northern lake and are reached by boat — usually the Scuba-Academie boat out of the Baambrugse Zuwe.

Two dives, September 2014 and July 2020, to 12.4 m.

Position corrected September 2026. This was pinned to OSM node/2729957442 — a house on Zandeiland, a residential street in Meerhoven, Eindhoven, 94 km away. The same defect that had put Zandeiland 4 there. The real position, 52.24193 / 4.94654, is from duikersgids, which numbers the islands eiland-1 to eiland-12; its eiland-4 agrees with the corrected Zandeiland 4 position to within 80 m, which is what validates the rest of the set.

Dived here with

Benjamin Kim

Nearby sites

2 dives at Zandeiland 8, Vinkeveen

Dives per year

  1. 18 Jul 2020 with Benjamin boat date18 Jul 2020 depth12.4 m time60 min water17 °C
  2. 28 Sept 2014 with Kim boat date28 Sept 2014 depth11.4 m time57 min water—

Sources

  • First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)