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Type: Drift/reef
Last visited: 10-10-2025
Depth: 4 m
Qual: 1

Summary: Shore dive.
Easy access into water via stone steps at high tide, or big stride in off platforms further along the pier.

If you are lucky, you can park on the pier, otherwise Broad Road car park is only 200m up the hill; gate staff (if you ask nicely!) will generally watch your kit.

Features: Lots of Sealife!

Schools of pollock with Bass. Pipe fish seen. Plenty of dead mans fingers. Tompot blenny hiding in the supports.
Black face blenny spotted on supports on the seabed, resident lobster, common prawns and Atlantic shrimp in the snakelocks anemones towards the far end of the structure.
Scorpionfish, cuttlefish, plaice occasionally seen.
Conger in the wall at the land end!

GPS location: 50 36.545N 01 57.027W
Use chart: Imray C4
Datum: WGS
Tidal Diamond: F

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Type: Drift/reef
Last visited: 10-10-2025
Depth: 4 m
Qual: 1

Summary: Shore dive.
Easy access into water via stone steps at high tide, or big stride in off platforms further along the pier.

If you are lucky, you can park on the pier, otherwise Broad Road car park is only 200m up the hill; gate staff (if you ask nicely!) will generally watch your kit.

Features: Lots of Sealife!

Schools of pollock with Bass. Pipe fish seen. Plenty of dead mans fingers. Tompot blenny hiding in the supports.
Black face blenny spotted on supports on the seabed, resident lobster, common prawns and Atlantic shrimp in the snakelocks anemones towards the far end of the structure.
Scorpionfish, cuttlefish, plaice occasionally seen.
Conger in the wall at the land end!

GPS location: 50 36.545N 01 57.027W
Use chart: Imray C4
Datum: WGS
Tidal Diamond: F

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Type: Wreck
Last visited: 10-10-2025
Depth: 13 m
Qual: 1

Summary: Silty seabed with some rocks

Features: Excellent wreck full of life, though slowly disintegrating. Conger, schools of Bib in hold and the odd lobster! Flat fish and squat lobsters seen between the plates. Usually lots of fish hanging around; large school of bib with the odd bass now & then. red mullet often sleeping on the sea bed. Quite a lot to see if you drift off the wreck too.

GPS location: 50 37.569N 01 56.064W
Use chart: Imray C4
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond: F

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Type: Drift/reef
Last visited: 10-10-2025
Depth: 4 m
Qual: 1

Summary: Shore dive.
Easy access into water via stone steps at high tide, or big stride in off platforms further along the pier.

If you are lucky, you can park on the pier, otherwise Broad Road car park is only 200m up the hill; gate staff (if you ask nicely!) will generally watch your kit.

Features: Lots of Sealife!

Schools of pollock with Bass. Pipe fish seen. Plenty of dead mans fingers. Tompot blenny hiding in the supports.
Black face blenny spotted on supports on the seabed, resident lobster, common prawns and Atlantic shrimp in the snakelocks anemones towards the far end of the structure.
Scorpionfish, cuttlefish, plaice occasionally seen.
Conger in the wall at the land end!

GPS location: 50 36.545N 01 57.027W
Use chart: Imray C4
Datum: WGS
Tidal Diamond: F

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Type: Drift/reef
Last visited: 10-10-2025
Depth: 4 m
Qual: 1

Summary: Shore dive.
Easy access into water via stone steps at high tide, or big stride in off platforms further along the pier.

If you are lucky, you can park on the pier, otherwise Broad Road car park is only 200m up the hill; gate staff (if you ask nicely!) will generally watch your kit.

Features: Lots of Sealife!

Schools of pollock with Bass. Pipe fish seen. Plenty of dead mans fingers. Tompot blenny hiding in the supports.
Black face blenny spotted on supports on the seabed, resident lobster, common prawns and Atlantic shrimp in the snakelocks anemones towards the far end of the structure.
Scorpionfish, cuttlefish, plaice occasionally seen.
Conger in the wall at the land end!

GPS location: 50 36.545N 01 57.027W
Use chart: Imray C4
Datum: WGS
Tidal Diamond: F

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Type: Drift/reef
Last visited: 10-10-2025
Depth: 4 m
Qual: 1

Summary: Shore dive.
Easy access into water via stone steps at high tide, or big stride in off platforms further along the pier.

If you are lucky, you can park on the pier, otherwise Broad Road car park is only 200m up the hill; gate staff (if you ask nicely!) will generally watch your kit.

Features: Lots of Sealife!

Schools of pollock with Bass. Pipe fish seen. Plenty of dead mans fingers. Tompot blenny hiding in the supports.
Black face blenny spotted on supports on the seabed, resident lobster, common prawns and Atlantic shrimp in the snakelocks anemones towards the far end of the structure.
Scorpionfish, cuttlefish, plaice occasionally seen.
Conger in the wall at the land end!

GPS location: 50 36.545N 01 57.027W
Use chart: Imray C4
Datum: WGS
Tidal Diamond: F

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Type: Wreck
Last visited: 10-10-2025
Depth: 7 m
Qual: 1

Summary: On rocky seabed at base of Purbeck cliff

Features:

GPS location: 50 35.430N 01 58.000W
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond:

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Type: Drift/reef
Last visited: 10-10-2025
Depth: 4 m
Qual: 1

Summary: Shore dive.
Easy access into water via stone steps at high tide, or big stride in off platforms further along the pier.

If you are lucky, you can park on the pier, otherwise Broad Road car park is only 200m up the hill; gate staff (if you ask nicely!) will generally watch your kit.

Features: Lots of Sealife!

Schools of pollock with Bass. Pipe fish seen. Plenty of dead mans fingers. Tompot blenny hiding in the supports.
Black face blenny spotted on supports on the seabed, resident lobster, common prawns and Atlantic shrimp in the snakelocks anemones towards the far end of the structure.
Scorpionfish, cuttlefish, plaice occasionally seen.
Conger in the wall at the land end!

GPS location: 50 36.545N 01 57.027W
Use chart: Imray C4
Datum: WGS
Tidal Diamond: F

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Type: Wreck
Last visited: 10-10-2025
Depth: 17 m
Qual: 1

Summary: Sea bed gravel and sand with rock outcrops

Features: Wreckage mostly flat now, with large plates covered in devonshire cup corals and actinothoe. Saw 3 varieties of nudibranch and starfish. Scallops on the sea bed

GPS location: 50 34.400N 02 18.370W
Use chart: Imray C4
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond: J

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Type: Drift/reef
Last visited: 10-10-2025
Depth: 4 m
Qual: 1

Summary: Shore dive.
Easy access into water via stone steps at high tide, or big stride in off platforms further along the pier.

If you are lucky, you can park on the pier, otherwise Broad Road car park is only 200m up the hill; gate staff (if you ask nicely!) will generally watch your kit.

Features: Lots of Sealife!

Schools of pollock with Bass. Pipe fish seen. Plenty of dead mans fingers. Tompot blenny hiding in the supports.
Black face blenny spotted on supports on the seabed, resident lobster, common prawns and Atlantic shrimp in the snakelocks anemones towards the far end of the structure.
Scorpionfish, cuttlefish, plaice occasionally seen.
Conger in the wall at the land end!

GPS location: 50 36.545N 01 57.027W
Use chart: Imray C4
Datum: WGS
Tidal Diamond: F

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Type: Drift/reef
Last visited: 10-10-2025
Depth: 4 m
Qual: 1

Summary: Shore dive.
Easy access into water via stone steps at high tide, or big stride in off platforms further along the pier.

If you are lucky, you can park on the pier, otherwise Broad Road car park is only 200m up the hill; gate staff (if you ask nicely!) will generally watch your kit.

Features: Lots of Sealife!

Schools of pollock with Bass. Pipe fish seen. Plenty of dead mans fingers. Tompot blenny hiding in the supports.
Black face blenny spotted on supports on the seabed, resident lobster, common prawns and Atlantic shrimp in the snakelocks anemones towards the far end of the structure.
Scorpionfish, cuttlefish, plaice occasionally seen.
Conger in the wall at the land end!

GPS location: 50 36.545N 01 57.027W
Use chart: Imray C4
Datum: WGS
Tidal Diamond: F

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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 10-10-2025
Depth: 0 m
Qual: 1

Summary:

Features:

GPS location: 50 36.790N 01 56.350W
Use chart: Imray C4
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond: F

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Type: Wreck
Last visited: 10-10-2025
Depth: 4 m
Qual: 1

Summary: Nothing left of the wreck itself, but some nice sea hares. Close to the cliffs so fairly sheltered; seabed is gravel and sand with large rocks.

Features: Coins can be found if you are very lucky !
This site has been fine-tooth combed with metal detectors over the years and the artefacts all now reside in the Swanage Museum but even so the site is still worth a 40 minute bimble as it is reasonably weed free with many rocky outcrops.

GPS location: 50 35.172N 02 01.661W
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond:

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Type: Wreck
Last visited: 10-10-2025
Depth: 27 m
Qual: 2

Summary: Out from Worbarrow bay surrounded by a sandy sea bed

Features: Unknown vessel carry railway lines, hence name. Found one large pile of stacked rails though think there may be others. This was easily diveable in the 20 minutes we had down there. Large school of Bib, numerous massive Conger eel, lots of big Candy Stripe worms.

GPS location: 50 34.520N 02 11.850W
Use chart: Imray C4
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond: m

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Type: Wreck
Last visited: 10-10-2025
Depth: 4 m
Qual: 1

Summary: Nothing left of the wreck itself, but some nice sea hares. Close to the cliffs so fairly sheltered; seabed is gravel and sand with large rocks.

Features: Coins can be found if you are very lucky !
This site has been fine-tooth combed with metal detectors over the years and the artefacts all now reside in the Swanage Museum but even so the site is still worth a 40 minute bimble as it is reasonably weed free with many rocky outcrops.

GPS location: 50 35.172N 02 01.661W
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond:

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Type: Drift/reef
Last visited: 10-10-2025
Depth: 4 m
Qual: 1

Summary: Shore dive.
Easy access into water via stone steps at high tide, or big stride in off platforms further along the pier.

If you are lucky, you can park on the pier, otherwise Broad Road car park is only 200m up the hill; gate staff (if you ask nicely!) will generally watch your kit.

Features: Lots of Sealife!

Schools of pollock with Bass. Pipe fish seen. Plenty of dead mans fingers. Tompot blenny hiding in the supports.
Black face blenny spotted on supports on the seabed, resident lobster, common prawns and Atlantic shrimp in the snakelocks anemones towards the far end of the structure.
Scorpionfish, cuttlefish, plaice occasionally seen.
Conger in the wall at the land end!

GPS location: 50 36.545N 01 57.027W
Use chart: Imray C4
Datum: WGS
Tidal Diamond: F

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Type: Wreck
Last visited: 10-10-2025
Depth: 16 m
Qual: 1

Summary: Wreck of the Ferncliffe - a sail and steam cargo ship built in April 1883. She was 547 tons; 50.29m long and 7.92m wide and was only a few months old when she collided with the Italian sailing barque Fratelli Gaggino and sank 5 miles south of Christchurch

Features: The wreckage stands about 2m high in 16m of water on a seabed of mud, sand and shingle.
The area is usually full of marine life.

The ship had a 2 cylinder steam engine and a single propellor and the boiler still stands proud of the seabed

GPS location: 50 38.765N 01 52.999W
Use chart: Admiralty 2615 Rev 2000
Datum: WGS
Tidal Diamond:

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Type: Drift/reef
Last visited: 10-10-2025
Depth: 4 m
Qual: 1

Summary: Shore dive.
Easy access into water via stone steps at high tide, or big stride in off platforms further along the pier.

If you are lucky, you can park on the pier, otherwise Broad Road car park is only 200m up the hill; gate staff (if you ask nicely!) will generally watch your kit.

Features: Lots of Sealife!

Schools of pollock with Bass. Pipe fish seen. Plenty of dead mans fingers. Tompot blenny hiding in the supports.
Black face blenny spotted on supports on the seabed, resident lobster, common prawns and Atlantic shrimp in the snakelocks anemones towards the far end of the structure.
Scorpionfish, cuttlefish, plaice occasionally seen.
Conger in the wall at the land end!

GPS location: 50 36.545N 01 57.027W
Use chart: Imray C4
Datum: WGS
Tidal Diamond: F

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Type: Wreck
Last visited: 10-10-2025
Depth: 24 m
Qual: 2

Summary: In Poole Bay

Features: A lovely wreck, a little spread out but lots of nooks & crannies to explore. A big boiler has a surprise in every hole; full of tompots, tube worms. Vast numbers of congers spotted there, also cuttlefish. Full of life, including small stuff; 4 different nudis seen last dive.

GPS location: 50 36.950N 01 48.902W
Use chart: Admiralty 2615 rev 2000
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond: Q

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Type: Wreck
Last visited: 10-10-2025
Depth: 13 m
Qual: 1

Summary: Silty seabed with some rocks

Features: Excellent wreck full of life, though slowly disintegrating. Conger, schools of Bib in hold and the odd lobster! Flat fish and squat lobsters seen between the plates. Usually lots of fish hanging around; large school of bib with the odd bass now & then. red mullet often sleeping on the sea bed. Quite a lot to see if you drift off the wreck too.

GPS location: 50 37.569N 01 56.064W
Use chart: Imray C4
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond: F

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Type: Wreck
Last visited: 10-10-2025
Depth: 18 m
Qual: 1

Summary: A fairly well broken wreck of a steam ship on a sandy sea bed. The highest points of the wreck stand 2-3m proud of the seabed. Her prop shaft, steering gear and large anchor are generally visible.

Features: Storms can scour this area and reveal large parts of the wreck. Other times, more sand gets heaped over the wreck and only the high points are visible.

She was torpedoed by UB-57 and was being towed back to harbour when she broke up from the damage and sank. She was only 1 month old!

GPS location: 50 39.690N 01 46.710W
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond:

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Type: Wreck
Last visited: 10-10-2025
Depth: 20 m
Qual: 1

Summary: This is an overnight trip, so you will need to organise your own accommodation in West Bay and we will get gas fills there overnight. We meet at Swanage Pier for a trip down to West Bay in Spike (Divers Down). Provisional plan below... max depth is 20

Features: Provisional plan is: Weds: Black Hawk Bow on slack then Baygitano in Lyme Bay
Thurs: Adelaide off Portland, then Durdle Door on the way back
Aiming to return to Swanage by 17:00 on Thursday
Plenty more info in "Dive Dorset"

GPS location:
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond:

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Type: Drift/reef
Last visited: 10-10-2025
Depth: 4 m
Qual: 1

Summary: Shore dive.
Easy access into water via stone steps at high tide, or big stride in off platforms further along the pier.

If you are lucky, you can park on the pier, otherwise Broad Road car park is only 200m up the hill; gate staff (if you ask nicely!) will generally watch your kit.

Features: Lots of Sealife!

Schools of pollock with Bass. Pipe fish seen. Plenty of dead mans fingers. Tompot blenny hiding in the supports.
Black face blenny spotted on supports on the seabed, resident lobster, common prawns and Atlantic shrimp in the snakelocks anemones towards the far end of the structure.
Scorpionfish, cuttlefish, plaice occasionally seen.
Conger in the wall at the land end!

GPS location: 50 36.545N 01 57.027W
Use chart: Imray C4
Datum: WGS
Tidal Diamond: F