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General Dive Information

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Dive Marshall's phone numbers can be found in the recent membership list which you received from Keith. Please contact the Dive Marshall who will be arranging the diving at both Swanage and when appropriate, Kimmeridge. He will confirm the intended dive and advise if there is a place on the boat for you. The available places will be filled on a first come first served basis.
Don't just turn up and expect to go out on the boat, there's too many of us these days Trainees, please contact the Diving Officer to advise him if you are planning to come along on a Wednesday night and wish to perform qualifying dives.

Please note that Swanage Pier WILL BE LOCKED UP,(all cars off)on Mondays and Thursday nights at  the following times, so you will have to make alternative parking arrangements;
May 6:00pm
June/July 6:30pm  
August 9:00pm                  
The Loo`s and Showers are also locked at these times.

Tide Tables
Tides for KYARRA 2005 go to  www.kyarra.com or www.swanagediver.co.uk

Dive Site info.   
Swanage sites
Ballard Down   10 meters, shallow gullies, short weed, nice easy dive
Durlston Bay 8 - 18 meters in middle,
Fanny  18 meters, wrecked in 1780 lies between Evans Rock and Peveril Ledge buoy
Firth Fisher 37 meters, wrecked in 1925, also known as Castle Reagh. A very nice dive.
Fleur de Leys 10 meters, sunk in 2000, small fishing boat lying on far side of Swanage Bay. Often surrounded with fish life
Haleswell 6 meters, wrecked in 1786. Very little wreck to see but lots of very large weed covered boulders to swim around
Kyarra 30 meters, wrecked in 1918
Leny   17 meters, wrecked 1942
Old Harry rocks 10 meters, shallow gullies, short    weed and some larger kelp.
Peveril Ledges 10 – 23 meters, very dramatic rock ledges, usually good marine life
Ragged Rocks 8 – 12 meters, mixture of large and small boulders, covered in weed and kelp.
Tanville Ledge 6 – 8 meters, small rocky outcrops in front of Grand Hotel in Swanage Bay
Valentine Tanks 18 meters, experimental floating Tanks that didn t float ! Sunk in 1942

       

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Kimmeridge sites
Aolean Sky
Black Hawk   16 meters, bow section only, sunk in 1944. Large sections of wreck on gravel bottom. Usually good fish life, interesting ledges to follow away from wreck
Brandy Bay Drift     8 – 14 meters, rock    gullies, various weeds and fish life
British Inventor 17 – 20 meters, wrecked in 1940,  various bits of wreck sitting on a gravel bottom
Brittlestar Beds 16 meters, lots of Brittles stars !
Very pretty
Broadbench 6 – 10 meters, rock ledges and gullies
Hildegarde 7 meters, wrecked 1900. Not much wreck to see, rock bottom covered in kelp and weed
Mupe Rocks 7 – 10 meters, large rocks      on a gravel bottom
Nature Trail 15 meters, follow the rope      along the trail !
Pin Wreck
Railway Line Wreck 25 meters, Railway lines      lying on a sandy bottom
Sea Bed Caves 8 – 14 meters, huge blocks of weed free stone on a gravel bottom, interesting dive
Worbarrow Bay Ledges 14 meters, long ledges of rock, on a gravel bottom. Lots of scallops and other fish life. (these are the same ledges that lead away from the Black Hawk)

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