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LOCAL DIVESITES
This is the page that will tell you about some of the best
local divesites...according to our Club Members!
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favourite dive site was Silex Bay (Selnwick Bay on maps)
at Flamborough Head. I led so many dives there that the
club contemplated re naming it Peeke's Point!!! I think
one evening shore dive there, I led 24 divers! As a shore
dive it offers crabs and lobsters all over, anchors, some
wreckage, marvellous scenery with gulleys to explore, a
full range of coloured seaweed (kelp at the top to the myriods
of mosses etc down to 40 - 50ft). You can dive with safety
at any time on ebb and the tide will bring you back into
the bay. Half a mile off the Head, an experienced diver
can get 60 - 70 feet amongst Dead Mens Fingers etc. but
a compass is a must. I have come up in thick fog unable
to see the cliffs and hearing the foghorn echoing round
(which I couldn't place and had to come in on a bearing).
I reckon I have over 400 dives there. I did not start diving
until I was 40 and my wife was a diving widow for 22 years
when conditions were good (although she did support me in
the Scilly Isles over 2 seperate week long holidays where
I exceeded 200 feet on a wreck called The Italia). I have
dived the Inner Hebrides, Isle of Arran, Isle of Islay,
Scappa Flow and many sites around Scotland among seals.
I'm 72 now - I donated all my dive gear to the club but
I love to think of being weightless again and chasing crabs
and lobsters round Silex Bay. I can but dream!!!
DAVE WILD - FORMER CHAIRMAN:
Probably my most favourite dive site from the Yorkshire
coast area is the Diana (or maybe it's the Staxton Wyke
as there is still a degree of confusion about which wreck
is which!). However, she lies in about 33m of water some
14 miles out from the boat compound at Bridlington. The
location is such that you feel you've done a "proper"
dive without having to travel for a long time, and the depth
gives you as long as you realistically want, but again you
feel that you've done something worthwhile.
The wreck itself sits upright on a shale seabed so the visibility
is usually OK (for Bridlington Bay anyway!) and you can
navigate around her with ease. Most of the main bits that
you would expect to find on wreck are still there - hand
rails, winches, davits and holds. For me though, the best
bit is the stern, where you can still find portholes, rudder,
cabin (complete with shell case boxes) and sat on top is
a wheel used for the deck crane - sadly missing - but a
great place to ascend from with a delayed SMB! All in all,
the dive has pretty much everything that you would want
from a wreck, but without the netting!
PS - the reference marks given in the Dive Yorkshire book
are not quite accurate - otherwise I wouldn't have told
you about it!
JEREMY NOOTT - PR OFFICER:
One of my favourite boat dives is the Hornsea Sub. I vividly
remember diving it on the morning of Diana's funeral in
September 1997. It was a calm clear morning, the sea flat
and the visibility wonderful. What really struck me was
that there was this massive cod inside the engine room -
it knew that no trawler net was going to get it there. It's
mouth was big enough for me to put my fist inside - super!
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