The schedule below shows the events for this year. Social events and holidays are added throughout the year. If no dives are shown below, it means we have not yet published the plan for the current year (generally done in March/April with the dive season starting in May). To see last year's events, please click here.
Most shore and club boat diving takes place out of Swanage or Kimmeridge in Dorset with occasional trips on commercial charters out of Portland and trips further afield, for example to Porthkerris or abroad.
Club members can book spaces on any of these events - they get to see more information about each dive, including space availability and any last minute cancellations due to bad weather.
Events for 2026
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Dive Site Details for: Swanage Pier
The information below about this dive site has been put together by IPSAC members. If you would like to amend the details, please contact the Committee.
Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 06-05-2026
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
Dive Site Details for: Swanage Pier
The information below about this dive site has been put together by IPSAC members. If you would like to amend the details, please contact the Committee.
Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 06-05-2026
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
Dive Site Details for: Valentine Tanks (R)
The information below about this dive site has been put together by IPSAC members. If you would like to amend the details, please contact the Committee.
Type: Wreck
Last visited: 02-08-2015
Depth: 12 m
Qual: 1
Summary: 2 tanks from WWII on a sandy sea bed. Full of life!
Features: A real bit of history.
2 Tanks from WW2 Operation Smash connected by rope. Gun turret and gun have fallen off to one side on both wrecks, but still clearly identifiable. Conger eels, edible crab, lobster, common prawn and shoals of bib. Nudis everywhere if you look carefully. Resident Ballan wrasse and visiting bass. Occasional red gurnard, dogfish and rays
GPS location: 50 39.422N 01 53.392W
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond:
Dive Site Details for: Swanage Pier
The information below about this dive site has been put together by IPSAC members. If you would like to amend the details, please contact the Committee.
Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 06-05-2026
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
Dive Site Details for: Swanage Pier
The information below about this dive site has been put together by IPSAC members. If you would like to amend the details, please contact the Committee.
Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 06-05-2026
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
Dive Site Details for: Swanage Pier
The information below about this dive site has been put together by IPSAC members. If you would like to amend the details, please contact the Committee.
Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 06-05-2026
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
Dive Site Details for: Swanage Slip
The information below about this dive site has been put together by IPSAC members. If you would like to amend the details, please contact the Committee.
Type: Launch
Last visited: 12-05-2026
Depth: 2 m
Qual: 1
Summary: Swanage Slip, Swanage Town Council Boat Park, Swanage BH19 2BB Bookings via Swanage Info Centre: 01929 766018
Features: Swanage Town Council Boat Park is situated off Peveril Point Road. Turn left off Seymer Road and carry on through Broad Road Car Park. The boat park is on the left.
All users of the boat park and slipway must be aware of the boat park regulations.
GPS location: 50 36.457N 01 56.831W
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: WGS
Tidal Diamond:
Dive Site Details for: Swanage Pier
The information below about this dive site has been put together by IPSAC members. If you would like to amend the details, please contact the Committee.
Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 06-05-2026
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
Dive Site Details for: Tanville
The information below about this dive site has been put together by IPSAC members. If you would like to amend the details, please contact the Committee.
Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 19-05-2021
Depth: 10 m
Qual: 1
Summary: Within Swanage bay, a long rocky ledge surrounded by sand.
Features: Lots to see, including tube and fan worms, Leopard Spot Goby and Goldsinny. Always full of life; squat lobsters hiding in cracks, wrasse.
GPS location:
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond:
Dive Site Details for: Ferncliffe
The information below about this dive site has been put together by IPSAC members. If you would like to amend the details, please contact the Committee.
Type: Wreck
Last visited: 24-08-2025
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:
Dive Site Details for: Swanage Slip
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Type: Launch
Last visited: 12-05-2026
Depth: 2 m
Qual: 1
Summary: Swanage Slip, Swanage Town Council Boat Park, Swanage BH19 2BB Bookings via Swanage Info Centre: 01929 766018
Features: Swanage Town Council Boat Park is situated off Peveril Point Road. Turn left off Seymer Road and carry on through Broad Road Car Park. The boat park is on the left.
All users of the boat park and slipway must be aware of the boat park regulations.
GPS location: 50 36.457N 01 56.831W
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: WGS
Tidal Diamond:
Dive Site Details for: Fleur de Lys
The information below about this dive site has been put together by IPSAC members. If you would like to amend the details, please contact the Committee.
Type: Wreck
Last visited: 13-05-2026
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
Dive Site Details for: Durlston Hydrophone
The information below about this dive site has been put together by IPSAC members. If you would like to amend the details, please contact the Committee.
Type: Drift/reef
Last visited: 13-05-2026
Depth: 13 m
Qual: 2
Summary: A tripod for mounting acoustic monitoring devices installed near Durlston on behalf of Bournemouth University. The acoustic monitoring device has batteries which last around 3 months. Once retrieved, the data is downloaded and a report produced (by Bournemouth University).
Features: There used to be permanent power and data cables running across the seabed and up the cliffs to Durlston to provide a publicly available live acoustic feed... that is no longer the case and the device is now battery powered.
GPS location: 50 35.888N 001 56.755W
Use chart: Admiralty 2615 Rev 2000
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond:
Dive Site Details for: Durleston Gullies
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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 17-05-2026
Depth: 20 m
Qual: 1
Summary:
Features:
GPS location:
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond:
Dive Site Details for: Swanage Pier
The information below about this dive site has been put together by IPSAC members. If you would like to amend the details, please contact the Committee.
Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 06-05-2026
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
Dive Site Details for: Tanville
The information below about this dive site has been put together by IPSAC members. If you would like to amend the details, please contact the Committee.
Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 19-05-2021
Depth: 10 m
Qual: 1
Summary: Within Swanage bay, a long rocky ledge surrounded by sand.
Features: Lots to see, including tube and fan worms, Leopard Spot Goby and Goldsinny. Always full of life; squat lobsters hiding in cracks, wrasse.
GPS location:
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond:
Dive Site Details for: Black Hawk (Fore Section)
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Type: Wreck
Last visited: 21-08-2022
Depth: 12 m
Qual: 1
Summary: Mainly Gravel Ridges
Features: Liberty Ship wreck. Plenty of sea life including small sea fans
GPS location: 50 36.680N 02 12.430W
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond:
Dive Site Details for: North Face
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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 19-07-2020
Depth: 0 m
Qual: 1
Summary:
Features:
GPS location: 50 35.601N 02 08.969W
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: WGS
Tidal Diamond:
Dive Site Details for: Swanage Pier
The information below about this dive site has been put together by IPSAC members. If you would like to amend the details, please contact the Committee.
Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 06-05-2026
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
Dive Site Details for: Swanage Pier
The information below about this dive site has been put together by IPSAC members. If you would like to amend the details, please contact the Committee.
Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 06-05-2026
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
Dive Site Details for: Swanage Pier
The information below about this dive site has been put together by IPSAC members. If you would like to amend the details, please contact the Committee.
Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 06-05-2026
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
Dive Site Details for: Swanage Pier
The information below about this dive site has been put together by IPSAC members. If you would like to amend the details, please contact the Committee.
Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 06-05-2026
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
Dive Site Details for: Betsy Anna
The information below about this dive site has been put together by IPSAC members. If you would like to amend the details, please contact the Committee.
Type: Wreck
Last visited: 13-10-2024
Depth: 24 m
Qual: 2
Summary: A lovely wreck, a little spread out but lots of nooks & crannies to explore.
Features: Full of life, including small stuff; lots of nudibranch varieties seen here.
The big boiler has a surprise in every hole; full of tompots and tube worms. Vast numbers of (big and brave) congers spotted here along with occasional cuttlefish.
GPS location: 50 36.950N 01 48.902W
Use chart: Admiralty 2615 Rev 2000
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond: Q
Dive Site Details for: Swanage Pier
The information below about this dive site has been put together by IPSAC members. If you would like to amend the details, please contact the Committee.
Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 06-05-2026
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
Dive Site Details for: Swanage Pier
The information below about this dive site has been put together by IPSAC members. If you would like to amend the details, please contact the Committee.
Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 06-05-2026
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
Dive Site Details for: Swanage Pier
The information below about this dive site has been put together by IPSAC members. If you would like to amend the details, please contact the Committee.
Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 06-05-2026
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
Dive Site Details for: Swanage Pier
The information below about this dive site has been put together by IPSAC members. If you would like to amend the details, please contact the Committee.
Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 06-05-2026
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
Dive Site Details for: Kyarra WSG
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Type: Wreck
Last visited: Unknown
Depth: 30 m
Qual: 2
Summary: Rocky reef with drop offs
Features: Wreck where there is still bottles to be found. Is a very atmospheric dive with lots of interesting sea life hiding throughout the jumble of metal.
GPS location: 50 34.900N 01 56.590W
Use chart: Admiralty 2615 Rev 2000
Datum: WSG
Tidal Diamond: N
Dive Site Details for: Swanage Pier
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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 06-05-2026
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
Dive Site Details for: Swanage Pier
The information below about this dive site has been put together by IPSAC members. If you would like to amend the details, please contact the Committee.
Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 06-05-2026
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
Dive Site Details for: Swanage Pier
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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 06-05-2026
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
Dive Site Details for: Swanage Pier
The information below about this dive site has been put together by IPSAC members. If you would like to amend the details, please contact the Committee.
Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 06-05-2026
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
Dive Site Details for: Swanage Pier
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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 06-05-2026
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
Dive Site Details for: Black Hawk (Fore Section)
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Type: Wreck
Last visited: 21-08-2022
Depth: 12 m
Qual: 1
Summary: Mainly Gravel Ridges
Features: Liberty Ship wreck. Plenty of sea life including small sea fans
GPS location: 50 36.680N 02 12.430W
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond:
Dive Site Details for: Swanage Pier
The information below about this dive site has been put together by IPSAC members. If you would like to amend the details, please contact the Committee.
Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 06-05-2026
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
Dive Site Details for: Durleston Gullies
The information below about this dive site has been put together by IPSAC members. If you would like to amend the details, please contact the Committee.
Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 17-05-2026
Depth: 20 m
Qual: 1
Summary:
Features:
GPS location:
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond: