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United Kingdom Underwater Photo Sites (5)
Meanish pier is a great shore dive when you are diving. This is a great site for U/W photography and if you go in and out at the pier it has easy access. If you come out at the shore when the wind is blowing into the bay it can be hard to get out with a camera.
A dive center close by is
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A good dive guide with U/W pictures
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This is a good boat or shore dive in all conditions except wind from the North. Here is a good dive guide with all the info you need to dive here.
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This is a common site for divers around central Scotland and has loads of life. Its good for trainees to experianced divers and great for U/W Photography if you get there first as the viz can get bad if there are to many divers.
This is a good dive guide, it has U/W pictures
click here A common dive for divers in central scotland more info can be found here click here
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Nice sheltered dive site with deep water right off the shore
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We dived the Galapagos and it was fantastic lots of palagics Silkies, Galpagos white tips, Hammerheads and Whale Sharks to name but a few. The boat (Peter Hughes) was OK, but the food pretty plain, just as well the diving was exceptional. This is a great site when the conditions are good, consitions can be extremely challenging with washing machine type current.
| Facts about Gordon Rocks It is in United Kingdom- Gordon Rocks is in the Pacific.
- The typical depth is 0-10 Metres 0-30 Feet.
- The typical visibility is 3-10 Metres 10-30 Feet.
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The wreck of the Tapti fairly well broken up but still some nice large sections of hull. Clean sandy bottom so visibility can be good. Marine life to be spotted includes Conger Eel, Ling, Scorpionfish. Lots of nice Plumose Anenomes on the cover sections of the wreck.
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Excellent inland body of water, reaches depths of 70m+
| Facts about National diving and activities centre quarry, chepstow- It is in United Kingdom
- The typical depth is 50+ Metres 160+ Feet.
- The typical visibility is 3-10 Metres 10-30 Feet.
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Great macro dive, gullies, rocks and kelp at around 18m. Lots of starfish, urchins, squat lobsters, decorator crabs, shrimp and pipefish.
| Facts about Bohus, Shetland Isles- It is in United Kingdom
- Bohus, Shetland Isles is in the North Sea.
- The typical depth is 0-20 Metres 0-60 Feet.
- The typical visibility is 3-10 Metres 10-30 Feet.
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Sheltered Scottish loch - loads of colourful marine life.
Viz can be affected by freshwater runoff.
Typically green water.
| Facts about Loch Hourn- It is in United Kingdom
- Loch Hourn is in the Atlantic.
- The typical depth is 0-50 Metres 0-160 Feet.
- The typical visibility is 3-10 Metres 10-30 Feet.
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A great site for U/W photography and has lots of life for more detail look here
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Great Wrecks - Rondo, THesis and of course the Hispania
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World class diving !!
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Weather dependent but potential for fantastic green temperate water diving.
Unspoilt and isolated.
| Facts about Isle of Lewis.- It is in United Kingdom
- Isle of Lewis. is in the Atlantic.
- The typical depth is 0-50 Metres 0-160 Feet.
- The typical visibility is 3-10 Metres 10-30 Feet.
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Dive site is a shallow lagoon (max depth 12m) in a sheltered sandy bay. There is normally no current and the area is roped off for snorkelers to use, so it's a popular site with lots of boat traffic and for that reason care needs to be taken if diving on the deeper outside edge of the lagoon. It has a large coral reef with densely packed coral heads fringing the lagoon. Experienced divers will probably want to dive along the fringing edge and avoid the shallower snorkeling areas.
For dive site photos click here
| Facts about D'Lagoon, Perhentian Kecil- It is in United Kingdom
- D'Lagoon, Perhentian Kecil is in the South China Sea.
- The typical depth is 0-20 Metres 0-60 Feet.
- The typical visibility is 3-10 Metres 10-30 Feet.
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One of Plymouth's best wrecks the Elk is 108ft and 181 Tonne. originally a trawler she was requisitioned during the war as a minesweeper.
She hit a mine in November 1940 and sunk within an hour.
Today she is relatively intact in 32M upright, with the bow facing NW.
You can get into the fish hold and engine room.
The Elk is at 50.18.30, 04.10.17
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Le Poulmic 50.18.00, 04.09.65
Used as a minesweeper during the war Le Poulmic was sunk on 6th October 1940 by a German parachute mine
Le Poulmic was 121 ft long with a 27ft beam so quite small ship.
Le Poulmic is scattered over a wide area on a rocky seabed at 15-20M. the deck, winches and double bottom comprise the main structure left.
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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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Shore dive under old bridge.
Dive on slack water - 2 1/2 hrs before Liverpool LW - otherwise very strong currents.
Few parking spaces under bridge - no facilities.
Viz very variable, often less than 1m.
Fantastic macro life.
| Facts about Menai Straits- It is in United Kingdom
- Menai Straits is in the Irish Sea.
- The typical depth is 0-20 Metres 0-60 Feet.
- The typical visibility is 0-3 Metres 0-10 Feet.
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Old wooden pier, now closed and falling into the sea.
Sheltered site, best dived on incoming tide. Surrounded by sand.
Great macro site - plenty of life under pier.
Car park and toilets, no other facilities.
| Facts about Trefor Pier- It is in United Kingdom
- Trefor Pier is in the Atlantic.
- The typical depth is 0-10 Metres 0-30 Feet.
- The typical visibility is 3-10 Metres 10-30 Feet.
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launch from Seahouses. Loads of wrecks. Not for beginners as there are some strong currents. The seals are very inquisitive and will nibble your fins
| Facts about Farne Islands- It is in United Kingdom
- Farne Islands is in the North Sea.
- The typical depth is 0-20 Metres 0-60 Feet.
- The typical visibility is 3-10 Metres 10-30 Feet.
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