Diving
Diving - staying under water, using appropriate equipment or the so-called. stopped breathing (freediving), for recreational, sporting, scientific, technical, or military emergency. Scuba diving and diving stopped breathing (called freediving) is classified as extreme sports.
Scuba diving in Scotland is a very popular sport and there are many active local clubs so that local knowledge of tides and conditions is usually easy to find if considering shore diving.
Outstanding diving inshore and offshore, there are dives suitable for every diver no matter how new to the sport or experienced.With depths from a 3 to 60 meters and deeper.Many divers enjoy the area so much they return year after year. Apart from outstanding scenic dives like Hilsea Point reef, Tinker Shoal and Eddystone light, there are excellent wreck dives like the James Egan Layne, The Totnes Castle, The Persier, Rose Hill and many others.
There are many types of diving, from Sutton Harbour Marina are organized primarily for wreck diving trips. Wrecks are located at depths from 10 to up to 55 meters. Here you can choose from:
- SCYLLA REEF, THE WRECK OF F71 HMS SCYLLA, A LEANDER-CLASS FRIGATE THAT SERVED IN THE ROYAL NAVY BETWEEN 1970 AND DECEMBER 2003, DEPTH: 23 METRES,
- JAMES EGAN LAYNE IN WHITSAND BAY , LENGTH: 130 METRES , 7,000 TON WRECK, DEPTH: 24 METRES,
- SUPERTANKER, SANK 1967, DEPTH: 30 METRES, BROKEN UP BUT BOW RELATIVELY INTACT,
- LE POULMIC IN PLYMOUTH, LENGTH: 25 METRES, DEPTH: 22 METRES,
- 5,382 TONS, BELGIAN STEAMER -LARGE WRECK, 30 METRES TO SEA BED, SITS UP TO 10 METRES ABOVE SEA BED,
- GLEN STRATHALLEN IS A GREAT DIVE FOR BEGINNERS, DEPTH: 15 METRES.
Other places to dive is a reef, for example:
- ALLEY CANNON BALL, DEPTH: 14 METRES,
- BOVISAND FORT, DEPTH: 12 METRES MAX,
- PIER CELLARS, DEPTH: 4 - 15 METRES,
- BREAKWATER PLYMOUTH, DEPTH: 10 - 14 METRES.
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