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: 01-04-2026
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: 01-04-2026
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: 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: 10-09-2025
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: 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