UK Dive Guides

Dive the North East Coast - P Collings

This book is the definitive guide to a popular British diving location. It represent thirty years of diving by author Peter Collings, who has logged thousands of dives in these waters. Here some 300 wrecks are included in over 400 sites ranging from the Tees to the Tweed. Since its humble beginnings in 1983 this guide has enjoyed worldwide sales and has been updated. This edition is dated 2002 and and they have been supplied to us directly by the author.

ISBN 10: 0951168134

Scapa Flow Dive Guide - Lawson Wood

A comprehensive guide to diving the reefs and wrecks of Scapa Flow. Scapa Flow has international acclaim as one of the top five diving locations in the world and has more diveable wreckage than any other area in Europe. The shipwrecks are a mixture of battleships, cruisers and destroyers from the German High Seas Battle Fleet scuttled towards the end of WW1 and the direct actions of the British Admiralty which sank a further 43 ships during both world conflicts to block the entrances to Scapa Flow. This book is for all levels of experience from the beginner to technical diver.

Published 12th March 2007. ISBN 13: 9781905492046

Price: £15.99

£15.99

Dive Sussex - Kendall McDonald

The Definitive Guide to the 300 Wrecks and other Dive Sites From Selsey to Rye Bay (Includes Littlehampton, Brighton and Seaford). The Sussex coastline boasts more than 300 divaeble wrecks, some sunk in action during both World Wars, some sunk in fog, storms and by collision. All are described in this guide, some for the first time. There are also reefs of hard-rock and chalk, walls and holes, whirlpools and great rifts in the seabed, plus chasms, canyons, cliffs deserts banks and boulders for you to explore. Thers is also an abundance of marine life to be seen. Paperback - ( 1 January, 1999) Underwater World Publications.

ISBN 13: 9780946020287

Dive South Cornwall - Richard Larn

A guide to over 200 coastal and offshore sites. Dive South Cornwall covers 110 miles of coastline from Cremyll Passage in Plymouth Sound to Land's End. A wide variety of underwater scenery, marine life, clear water and an abundance of shipwrecks make this an ideal area for the sport diver. Fully revised, this guide provides an insight into both deep and shallow dives, shipwrecks by the shore, access and site conditions and information concerning the services that a diver needs to make diving easier, safer and more enjoyable. Paperback - (1996) Underwater World Publications.

ISBN 13: 9780946020256

Dive Kent - Kendall McDonald

Dive Kent covers the county coasline from the Sussex border to Margate. The coastline of Kent is an area which fully deserves the label of 'wreck divers paradise'. There are more shipwrecks in Kent waters than anywhere else in Britain. Some of the wrecks were put there by mines, cannonballs, shell fire, torpedoes and a variety of methods. Some were sunk by storms, fierce tides or navigational errors. Divided into six seperate chapter areas, the book pinpoints every underwater site of potential interest to divers. The individual site descriptions are complimented by detailed maps, location photography and wreck illustrations.

Paperback - (March 1994) Underwater World Publications.

ISBN 13: 9780946020201

Dive West Scotland - Lawson Wood

130 top dives in West Scotland, including the areas of Oban, Skye, Mull and the Outer Hebrides. With its clear waters, countless wrecks, rich marine life and stunning underwater scenery, Scotland's west coast boasts some of the finest diving in the British Isles. Covering the entire Atlantic coastline and islands, from Mull of Galloway in the south to Cape Wrath in the north, this book is the definitive guide to the pick the region's dive spots.

Paperback - (2004) Underwater World Publications.

ISBN 13: 9780946020362

Dive Isle of Man - Maura Mitchell and Ben Hextall

Guide to a unique British diving destination renowned for its marine life and underwater scenery.

The Isle of Man off the North West coast of England, offers some of the most spectacular and varied diving in the British Isles. The coastline is unspoilt and the underwater visibility is generally superb. The marine life is highly diverse and the dives sites are outstanding. This guide is meant to be used by local and visiting divers who wish to take advantage of all that this island can provide underwater.
Paperback - (1994) Underwater World Publications.

ISBN 13: 0946020218

Dive Wight and Hampshire Martin Pritchard, Kendall McDonald

Guide to nearly 250 dive sites in one of the UK's top areas for wrecks.

The waters off the Isle of Wight and Hampshire provide some of the most exciting diving in Britain. The casualties of two thousand years of seaborne traffic lie in huge numbers on the sea bed in the areas covered by this book, so many that the authors have added a shipwreck register of over 1200 lost ships. It is not suprising that new finds are made every year by local and visiting divers. Not all Wight and Hampshire diving is on wrecks. These waters teem with marine life, and dramatic underwater scenery is not hard to find. Parts of the solent can be murky, but the visibility elsewhere is often excellent and sometimes unbelievable.

Paperback -(2001) Underwater World Publications.

ISBN 13: 9780946020300

Dive Dorset - John & Vicki Hinchcliffe

Guide to more than 290 dive sites from Lyme Regis to Poole Bay. Dive Dorset covers more than 100 miles of coastline, including such top diving areas as Lyme Bay, Chesil Beach and Poole Bay. The waters off Dorset provide divers with possibly the most varied arena in Britain in which to pursue their sport. This guide will take you to many places - some where large and small fish of many varieties live, some where reefs of remarkable beauty flourish, and even some boasting strange underwater caverns, never previously recorded. Nowhere in British waters is there such an abundance of wrecks, many virtually unexplored. The information on wrecks has been focused on those where some definite remains still exist for the diver to investigate. Paperback -(1999) Underwater World Publications.

ISBN 13: 9780946020263

Dive The Isles of Scilly and North Cornwall - Richard Larn and David McBride

353 selected dive sites in an area rich in wrecks, marine life and maritime history. Home to more than 3000 recorded shipwrecks, and boasting superior underwater visibility and rich in marine life, North Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly are a magnet for divers. This book tells how to explore the waters around the Isles of Scilly, with its 5 inhabited islands, 48 islets, and hundreds of rocks spread over 60 square miles. There is also detailed coverage of North Cornwall, which can be dived from boats based at St Ives, Newquay, Padstow, Rock and Port Gaverne, with special information for technical divers wishing to visit the deeper wrecks off this coast. Paperback -(2003) Underwater World Publications.

ISBN 13: 9780946020331

Dive England's Greatest Wrecks

- Rod Macdonald

Dive England's Greatest Wrecks is a perfect companion for any diver interested in exploring England's most exciting shipwrecks, preserved as time capsules of an era of sea power and majesty that has now passed into the history books. Among the ten featured here are the Salsette off Weymouth, arguably Engalnd's most famous shipwreck; the SS Kyarra off Dorset; the British submarine M2 and the pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Hood, both lying off Portland; the American Liberty ship James Egan Layne off Plymouth; and the fabulous

P & O liner Moldavia.

ISBN 13: 9781840185706

Dive Scotland's Greatest Wrecks

- Rod Macdonald

Accomplished diver Rod Macdonald has carefully selected 10 of Scotland's most famous shipwrecks in this practical and authoritative guide. The story of the sinking of each vessel is dramatically recounted and accompanied by a detailed description of the wreck today. Each wreck is brought vividly to life by specially commissioned illustrations and the dives are depicted with charts and underwater photographs.

ISBN 13: 9781840183344

Underwater Guide to North Wales

, Volume One - C Holden

Volume One covers Barmouth to South Stack.

Practical information for divers, snorkellers, boat-users and sea-anglers. Diving from the shore or from a boat. All dives less than 30 metres. Useful data on marine-life, conservation zones, wrecks, rocks, reefs and underwater caves. Accurate directions and GPS positions. Latitude, longitude and Ordnance Survey references given where approriate. Detailed information on where to launch your boat, slack-water and other tidal information, local legislation, dangers, boat charters, air-stations and dive-shops.

ISBN 13: 97809544506605

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Underwater Guide to North Wales, Volume Two - C Holden

Volume Two covers South Stack to Colwyn Bay.

Practical information for divers, snorkellers, boat-users and sea-anglers. Diving from the shore or from a boat. Useful data on marine-life, conservation zones, wrecks, rocks, reefs and underwater caves. Accurate directions and GPS positions. Latitude, longitude and Ordnance Survey references given where approriate. Detailed information on where to launch your boat, slack-water and other tidal information, local legislation, dangers, boat charters, air-stations and dive-shops.

ISBN 13: 9780954506612

Scylla Reef Guide Syclla Reef Guide

The Scylla Reef guide is an extensive plan of the superstructure and the decks of Scylla, a former Royal Navy Frigate that was recently placed on the seabed in Whitsand Bay, south east Cornwall. It also includes a wonderful marine life species guide, diving tips, and dive boat information. It is printed in full colour, on Yupo waterproof paper and is not only a useful planning tool but also a great memento of this brilliant dive. All the proceeds from the sales of these items after costs go towards the upkeep of the Scylla Reef for divers and the scientific programmes run by the National Marine Aquarium.

Retail Price: 10.00 Members Price: £7.00

This is the most comprehensive guide to diving in Cornwall covering both the north & south coasts and provides a detailed description of 100 top dives from Looe right round to Padstow.
Full GPS data is listed – accurate to a thousandth of a minute. The guide gives you all you need to know to enjoy some of the best diving in the UK.
It includes:
A complete round-up of launch sites suitable for divers
Contact details for where to get air
Essential safety tips
First-hand knowledge on how to get the best out of every dive based on more than 20 years of experience of diving in Cornwall
An up-to-date listing of charter boats
Accommodation advice form campsites to hotels
The guide has been compiled by Charles Hood, a highly experience diver, who has spent more than 20 years exploring Cornish waters and it includes nearly 200 of his fabulous photographs – both underwater and topside.

ISBN 13: 9780953891931

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