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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 19-08-2026
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: WGS84
Tidal Diamond: F

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Type: Drift/reef
Last visited: 20-05-2026
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: 50 37.125N 01 56.875W
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: WGS84
Tidal Diamond:

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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 19-08-2026
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: WGS84
Tidal Diamond: F

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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

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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 28-08-2019
Depth: 0 m
Qual: 1

Summary:

Features: Conger eels

GPS location: 50 35.398N 01 57.093W
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond:

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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 19-08-2026
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: WGS84
Tidal Diamond: F

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Type: Wreck
Last visited: 06-09-2015
Depth: 18 m
Qual: 1

Summary: Launch from Kimmeridge, site is off Worbarrow Bay.

Features: Not much wreck remains, but full of life. Many types of sponge, anemones, hydroids. Adjacent sandy bed is a mass of sea cucumbers.

GPS location: 50 36.729N 02 12.246W
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: WGS84
Tidal Diamond:

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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 24-05-2026
Depth: 0 m
Qual: 1

Summary:

Features:

GPS location: 50 35.601N 02 08.969W
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: WGS84
Tidal Diamond:

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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 23-07-2025
Depth: 7 m
Qual: 1

Summary:

Features:

GPS location:
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond:

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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 19-08-2026
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: WGS84
Tidal Diamond: F

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Type: Wreck
Last visited: 06-07-2025
Depth: 18 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 39.436N 01 53.465W
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond:

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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 19-08-2026
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: WGS84
Tidal Diamond: F

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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 07-08-2026
Depth: 12 m
Qual: 1

Summary: Seabed light gravel with rocks

Features:

GPS location: 50 36.920N 02 13.300W
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond:

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Type: Wreck
Last visited: 11-06-2025
Depth: 7 m
Qual: 1

Summary: On rocky seabed at base of Purbeck cliff

Features:

GPS location: 50 35.430N 01 58.000W
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond:

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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 19-08-2026
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: WGS84
Tidal Diamond: F

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Type: Wreck
Last visited: 04-06-2016
Depth: 17 m
Qual: 1

Summary: Sea bed gravel and sand with rock outcrops

Features: Wreckage mostly flat now, with large plates covered in devonshire cup corals and actinothoe. Saw 3 varieties of nudibranch and starfish. Scallops on the sea bed

GPS location: 50 35.400N 02 18.370W
Use chart: Imray C4
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond: J

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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 19-08-2026
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: WGS84
Tidal Diamond: F

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Type: Wreck
Last visited: 02-06-2024
Depth: 30 m
Qual: 101

Summary: The MV Security was a steam-powered tugboat which foundered in heavy seas while en route to tow the tanker Kelletia to safety on 6th December 1946. She lies 12 miles East of Anvil Point. Previously known as: - The Kingfisher - The Diligence - The Stoke

Features: The MV Security was on her way to rescue the tanker Kelletia along with 2 other tugboats (the Contest and the Watercock). There were heavy sea conditions and the MV Security foundered - it was thought poor maintenance caused her to sink. She was 31m long and weighed 189 tons.

GPS location:
Use chart: Admiralty 2615 Rev 2000
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond:

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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 09-06-2024
Depth: 0 m
Qual: 1

Summary:

Features:

GPS location: 50 36.147N 02 11.367W
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: WGS84
Tidal Diamond:

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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 19-08-2026
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: WGS84
Tidal Diamond: F

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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 29-06-2025
Depth: 14 m
Qual: 1

Summary: Huge boulders making up a seabed maze with wide channels that you can swim through.

Features: Lots of squat lobsters and prawns

GPS location: 50 35.060N 02 05.040W
Use chart: Imray C4
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond: G

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Type: Wreck
Last visited: 23-08-2026
Depth: 18 m
Qual: 1

Summary: Bow section of the wreck of a US Liberty Cargo Ship torpedoed by German Submarine U-772 on 29th December 1944. She is very broken up and is great to explore. Various parts stands 3m proud of the gravelly seabed. Loads of life.

Features: The 7,191 ton US Liberty ship was built in New Orleans in 1944. She was travelling as part of a convoy when she was torpedoed by German submarine U-772 on 29th December 1944. Her stern sank South of Portland Bill but the remaining forward section was taken in tow toward Poole. A gale broke the towline and she sank in Worbarrow Bay. The site was later flattened with explosives to clear a path for pipeline work connected to the Winfrith nuclear site. Only 4 of her 41 crew were injured in the blast (one later died). The Black Hawk was abandoned, and the survivors taken on board the British corvette HMS Dahlia. Look for the large winch, broken steel plates, large anchor chains, capstans, and heavy machinery parts scattered over a shingle and rock seabed.

GPS location: 50 36.680N 02 12.430W
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond:

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Type: Wreck
Last visited: 06-07-2025
Depth: 18 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 39.436N 01 53.465W
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond:

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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 09-07-2025
Depth: 0 m
Qual: 1

Summary:

Features:

GPS location: 50 36.790N 01 56.350W
Use chart: Imray C4
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond: F

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Type: Wreck
Last visited: 13-08-2025
Depth: 4 m
Qual: 1

Summary: Nothing left of the wreck itself, but some nice sea hares. Close to the cliffs so fairly sheltered; seabed is gravel and sand with large rocks.

Features: Coins can be found if you are very lucky !
This site has been fine-tooth combed with metal detectors over the years and the artefacts all now reside in the Swanage Museum but even so the site is still worth a 40 minute bimble as it is reasonably weed free with many rocky outcrops.

GPS location: 50 35.172N 02 01.661W
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond:

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Type: Wreck
Last visited: 07-08-2026
Depth: 27 m
Qual: 2

Summary: Out from Worbarrow bay surrounded by a sandy sea bed

Features: Unknown vessel carry railway lines, hence name. Found one large pile of stacked rails though think there may be others. This was easily diveable in the 20 minutes we had down there. Large school of Bib, numerous massive Conger eel, lots of big Candy Stripe worms.

GPS location: 50 34.520N 02 11.850W
Use chart: Imray C4
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond: m

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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 23-07-2025
Depth: 7 m
Qual: 1

Summary:

Features:

GPS location:
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond:

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Type: Drift/reef
Last visited: 27-05-2026
Depth: 20 m
Qual: 1

Summary: Drop down the chain onto a 15M plateau and then swim inshore along a wall maintaining your depth or go offshore and explore the deep gullies

Features: A lobster pot graveyard

GPS location:
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond:

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Type: Wreck
Last visited: 13-08-2025
Depth: 4 m
Qual: 1

Summary: Nothing left of the wreck itself, but some nice sea hares. Close to the cliffs so fairly sheltered; seabed is gravel and sand with large rocks.

Features: Coins can be found if you are very lucky !
This site has been fine-tooth combed with metal detectors over the years and the artefacts all now reside in the Swanage Museum but even so the site is still worth a 40 minute bimble as it is reasonably weed free with many rocky outcrops.

GPS location: 50 35.172N 02 01.661W
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond:

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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 19-08-2026
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: WGS84
Tidal Diamond: F

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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 38.796N 01 52.617W
Use chart: Admiralty 2615 Rev 2000
Datum: WGS84
Tidal Diamond:

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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 19-08-2026
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: WGS84
Tidal Diamond: F

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Type: Wreck
Last visited: 24-06-2026
Depth: 24 m
Qual: 2

Summary: She was coal-carrier and sank while heading to Cowes for repairs after hitting rocks in Devon. She lies on a flat gravel seabed at 24m. A lovely wreck, a little spread out but the donkey boiler, main boiler and engine are still prominent and there are lots of nooks & crannies to explore.

Features:

See Divernet for a Wreck Tour write up.

The Betsy Anna was damaged when she ran into rocks at Prawle Point in Devon. She installed a petrol pump to keep her afloat (still visible forward of the helm) as she headed to Cowes for repairs but it was not sufficient to handle the water ingress and she foundered.

The main boiler stands 4m clear of the sea bed with the triple-expansion steam engine behind. It has collapsed to port, bending the con rods which still connect the pistons to the crankshaft. Look for a thrust-bearing on the prop shaft, cargo winches, steering quadrant, rudder, steering chain, remains of the ship’s wheel, donkey boiler, anchor winch... Full of life, including small stuff; lots of nudibranch varieties. 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

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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

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Type: Wreck
Last visited: 23-07-2026
Depth: 18 m
Qual: 1

Summary: A fairly well broken wreck of a steam ship on a sandy sea bed. The highest points of the wreck stand 2-3m proud of the seabed. Her prop shaft, steering gear and large anchor are generally visible.

Features: Storms can scour this area and reveal large parts of the wreck. Other times, more sand gets heaped over the wreck and only the high points are visible.

She was torpedoed by UB-57 and was being towed back to harbour when she broke up from the damage and sank. She was only 1 month old!

GPS location: 50 39.690N 01 46.710W
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond:

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Type: Wreck
Last visited: 02-10-2025
Depth: 20 m
Qual: 1

Summary: This is an overnight trip, so you will need to organise your own accommodation in West Bay and we will get gas fills there overnight. We meet at Swanage Pier for a trip down to West Bay in Spike (Divers Down). Provisional plan below... max depth is 20

Features: Provisional plan is: Weds: Black Hawk Bow on slack then Baygitano in Lyme Bay
Thurs: Adelaide off Portland, then Durdle Door on the way back
Aiming to return to Swanage by 17:00 on Thursday
Plenty more info in "Dive Dorset"

GPS location:
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond:

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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 19-08-2026
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: WGS84
Tidal Diamond: F