Diving on the UK South Coast ?

[BartW]

when you are cruising, do you see boats with divers sometimes ? where ?
are there interesting diving spots on the south coats ?
do you know diving centers in the area ?

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[colingr]

Diving cetres all along the south coast from Dover to Penzance! Prett long castline to cover. Are you thinking of a particular area?

Dorset good, Weymouth/Portland good. Devon Cornwall good. Back of IoW not bad but longer boat trips to get to.

Solent crap, Sussex crap, not sure about further east.

Try googling dive centre Dorset, Devon Cornwall.

 

[Skyva_2]

A good place to ask for more detail is here

http://www.bsacforum.co.uk/

 

[TigaWave]

Plymouth is a good area to base yourself, with several dive comoanies and clubs, varied diving clear water, or if you want something really special head out to the scillies for a few days.

 

[Nick_H]

As a very rough rule of thumb, the diving gets better the further west you go, particlulary once you reach Dorset. If you're planning a trip, there are lots of very good books detailing the best dive spots, and I think they now have GPS co-ordinates in the latest editions.

 

[Gemini]

There is very good diving off the Sussex coast agree It gets better the further West you are, from Selsy Bill up to Beachy Head there are good reef/foul ground areas for flatty bashing and plenty of well explored wrecks, Little Hampton, Brighton & New Heaven are the main charter areas.
Vis is variable and exposed coasts do restrict some of the areas, but that's Diving.

 

[darren123]

Good dive shop in Brighton marina village !!!!!
www.thebrightondivecentre.co.uk
do all south coast and most wrecks ,heard very good feed back from customers
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[Garryt]

There's plenty of diving just off Plymouth, including the artificial reef based on the Leander Class Frigate HMS Scylla.

There's a really good dive center
Here

 

[BartW]

Hey thank you all guy's,
some really good advice on here,
we are planning to do a diving trip from Belgium to UK southcoast with our own boats this summer, and stay there for a week.
looking at some on line pictures it is worth the trip, especially the far west as sugested on here.
and plenty of usefull info to plan the trip.
thank you all for posting

 

[Vanilla]

Also lots of divers off Swanage

 

[hlb]

Think Plymouth is the place really, no diver myself, but the photo's of Hands Deap are breath taking. Then theres the Syilla?? Watched it go down. A battle ship for playing in.