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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 09-11-2025
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

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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 09-11-2025
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

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Type: Wreck
Last visited: 09-11-2025
Depth: 10 m
Qual: 1

Summary: Off St Aldhelms Head, Broken up amongst rocks

Features: Some remnants of wreck in the shallows. The ledges have lots of sea life

GPS location: 50 34.560N 02 03.350W
Use chart: Imray C4
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond: G

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Type: Wreck
Last visited: 09-11-2025
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: Wreck
Last visited: 09-11-2025
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: 09-11-2025
Depth: 0 m
Qual: 1

Summary:

Features:

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

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Type: Wreck
Last visited: 09-11-2025
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: 09-11-2025
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: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 09-11-2025
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: 09-11-2025
Depth: 18 m
Qual: 1

Summary: On sandy bed

Features: 2 Tanks connected by rope. Conger Eels and Bib

GPS location: 50 39.436N 01 53.465W
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond:

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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 09-11-2025
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: 09-11-2025
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:

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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 09-11-2025
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: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 09-11-2025
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: 09-11-2025
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

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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 09-11-2025
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

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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 09-11-2025
Depth: 0 m
Qual: 1

Summary:

Features:

GPS location: 50 33.800N 02 03.600W
Use chart: Unknown
Datum: OSGB
Tidal Diamond:

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Type: Drift/Reef
Last visited: 09-11-2025
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

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Type: Drift/reef
Last visited: 09-11-2025
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: 09-11-2025
Depth: 24 m
Qual: 2

Summary: In Poole Bay

Features: A lovely wreck, a little spread out but lots of nooks & crannies to explore. A big boiler has a surprise in every hole; full of tompots, tube worms. Vast numbers of congers spotted there, also cuttlefish. Full of life, including small stuff; 4 different nudis seen last dive.

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: 09-11-2025
Depth: 24 m
Qual: 2

Summary: In Poole Bay

Features: A lovely wreck, a little spread out but lots of nooks & crannies to explore. A big boiler has a surprise in every hole; full of tompots, tube worms. Vast numbers of congers spotted there, also cuttlefish. Full of life, including small stuff; 4 different nudis seen last dive.

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: 09-11-2025
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: