The Glen Strathallan was 150 ft long 150 Tonnes with a 22 foot beam and built in 1928.
She was used as an escort ship during the war.
She was deliberately sunk in 1970 just off the shagstone in 15M. Very broken up but boiler and deck winch intact.
she is at 50.18.84, 04.07.81
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A smaller wreck, usually second dive (after the Hood)
it lies just off the harbour wall and has little current
This wreck can have very low viz. It is in the silty part of Portland harbour but can stll provide some marine life
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Launch your inflatable off the beach and head east until you see the two rocks (cow and calf?)
On a good day the viz can be 10 metres
This site has some tropical looking fish like rainbow wrasse that I haven't sen on other sites.
Further off the reef there is a coarse sandy bottom with interspersed rocks
Nearest air is Weymouth. Loads of campsites around. Like Osmington Mills (with the fantastic Smugglers Inn nearby)
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A shallow spot but with lots of small animals, especially nudibranchs. Some dive centers in the vicinity but few dive there so you better rent or take or own gear.
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- The typical depth is 0-10 Metres 0-30 Feet.
- The typical visibility is 3-10 Metres 10-30 Feet.
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Large shipwreck betyween 20 and 30m deep. The River Gurara sunk in 1987.
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Loch Fyne is a great place to dive all year round and whatever you prefer your type of diving will be found here. Air fills can be found at Inveraray caravan park this is air only if you need a mix, Tarbert is the place you will need to go to. There is a slipway at the caravan park that can be used what ever state the tide is.
There is also a cafe on site that is very friendly and worth a visit while waiting for fills. Basically all along the Loch can be dived.Once stayed in a b&b at Furnace and instead of driving to the area that was intended to be dived we just walked to the bottom of the garden and went in there, two great dives had by all.I must add that although l have stated depth at 30 meter`s there are places where this Loch exceeds well over a hundred meters if you are thinking of diving the loch please ask a local for advice, if you are not sure you can buy a map of the Loch indicating depths. I am happy at 30 meters and always find plenty to see at between 5 to 30 meters so l am sure that will cater for most divers.
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Gorgonian garden, a very good spot accessible even to novice divers with lots of macro life.
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There is a number of sites to dive with good visability it would be great, unfortunately it was only around 2 metres this weekend. The Seals are great fun and worth the visit alone. marine reserve.lots of subjects for close up and macro spectacular walls of jewel anemones to 40mts.
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A shallow dive site, 10 meters on its deepest point, with lots of macro subjects. It's not difficult to find 10 and more different species of nudibranchs in a single dive.
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A beautiful and well preserved dive spot, the name in portuguese means The Garden of the Gorgonians due to the many soft coral colonies which can be found there, especially Leptogorgia sarmentosa and Eunicella verrucosa.
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Lots of gorgonias and nudis.
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diving for all levels of experience and interests.
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wrecks. macro. typical uk diving.cold water and strong currents equal lots of life.
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Small island near the portuguese coast
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Good dive site for beginners,lots of nudis, and a nice arc under the lion stone.
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The Persier 50.16.96, 03,58.03
330 ft (30m) 5,382 tons torpedoed in 1945 by U-1017. This wreck is broken but parts sit up to 10m proud of the shale seabed at 31M.
The hull has collapsed but u=you can enter the engine room and the holds. Lots to see including the three boilers, 8ft anchor, prop shaft tunnel and other 'ship-shaped' bits (the three guns & prop have been salvaged). Lots of life again, pollack and sea fans especially.
You can dive this wreck from the dive boat Sunfish. You can contact Mike of Sunfish Charters on 07968-262421 or email click here to email or visit click here Never been on Sunfish before, then check out our Testimonial page on click here
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HMS Scylla
(23m) 400ft Frigate sunk as an artificial reef. A Frigate, whole and upright on the bottom!! This wreck is a wreck-divers paradise. A great dive whether you want to just swim around the outside, explore all four deck levels, or do a wreck penetration course.
Marine life is taking a good hold and varies considerably at different times of the year. Expect pout, pollack, wrasse, congers and even trigger fish
You can dive this wreck from the dive boat Sunfish. You can contact Mike of Sunfish Charters on 07968-262421 or email click here to email or visit click here Never been on Sunfish before, then check out our Testimonial page on click here
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James Egan Layne is (22m to scour) 417ft 10,000 tonnes liberty ship torpedoed by U1195 in 1945. Sitting upright in a sandy bottom, with no superstructure remaining and the stern broken off resting a short distance to the south. You can do an easy penetration all the way through, or swim down either side, then at the break swim to the stern.
You can enter No1 and 2 holds and swim into No3. The upper deck and the engine room have gone. Two lifeboats can be found 20M from the stern.
This is the South Coast's classic wreck dive with so much to see of either the ship itself, the cargo or the life (red & grey mullet, a huge residential shoal of horse mackerel near the bow, bass, pollack, wrasse, congers, pout, pipefish, John Dory, whiting, ling, crabs, lobsters.
I even saw my first Sunfish on this wreck!).
Easy to find - there's usually other boats hooked into it. Or head for the buoy and you'll find it, or use the satnav 50.19.47 04.14.61
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