Sub-Aqua Diving in Sutherland

Scotland has many outstanding Scuba Diving sites where you can plan your next weekend or holiday trip. Diving has been around for hundreds if not thousands of years. Firstly this was in the form of free diving without any apparatus. Using hollow reeds as a snorkel and primitive goggles to create clearer underwater vision followed this.

For the highly active there are a wide range of pursuits from Horse riding and Pony trekking, surfing, sail boarding, land yachting, kites & kite buggying, sub-aqua diving and sailing, places to climb and walk. For the less active and just in need of a rest the beaches are amazing and often you will find one all to yourself.

The magnificent coastline is dotted with white-sand beaches and the unspoilt waters are perfect for diving, windsurfing and surfing. Walking possibilities are legion, with Foinaven and Ben Hope – Scotland's most northerly Munro – within easy striking distance. Other highlights include a visit to Smoo Cave, a round of golf at the village's nine-hole course and a trip through eerie wilderness to Cape Wrath lighthouse and the Clo Mor cliffs, the highest on mainland Britain.

Boat diving on our Super Rib's to all of the local wrecks and scenic dive sites is available daily throughout the season for larger groups or on day or multiple day basis. Large site on the waters edge with good and ample car parking with storage for trailers, changing facilities and gratis slipway pontoon and mooring availability for customers. Just a mile or so out of Oban the eating houses are close by.

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Caithness Diving Club
If you are a diver, call along to the club hut on a Tuesday or Thursday evening at 6.00pm or on Sunday at 10.00am. Caithness Diving Club is about 40 years old. Dive routinely around the north-eastern corner of the UK. Club hut is in Thurso. They have dive sites on the north and east coasts of Caithness.
Dive Life in Caithness and Sutherland
Dead Man's Finger with Brittle Star

Diving in Caithness offers the (almost) unique opportunity to see marine life up close and clearly. Visibility is normally good, anywhere from 10 to 30 metres.
Loch Eriboll Diving
Know About Loch Eriboll
A long deep sea loch open to the north, the shelter from surrounding hills makes it diveable somewhere in any weather conditions.

As with all sites in this part of Scotland bear in mind that it is a very long time to the nearest deco chamber, even by helicopter.
Boat or Wreck Diving in Caithness
If you are looking for an unusual wreck dive, then you can always visit the "loo" in the sand off of Scrabster lighthouse! This dive would be in the region of 20 metres.
Staxigoe, Caithness
A natural harbour with a good slip, usable at most states of the tide.

Excellent place for a shake-down dive, sheltered yet full of encrusting life.

When the tide is in a stride entry is possible, just for fun of course!
Rhu Corrie, Sutherland
Shore dive if you are prepared to climb the steep boggy slope, else launch at Portskerra slip.

From the shore circumnavigate the stack in an anti-clockwise direction, you will find an 18 m gully leading to room sized cave with exit in the roof, then go west to drop into west side gully.
Clett Rock, Caithness
A solitary sea stack, interesting topography causes the sea to run uphill, honest guvnor! Sheer cliffs plunge on through the waterline to level off at 20 m depth, nice big, short cave in the cliff. Launch at Scrabster. Heading out of Scrabster for Ushat Head the cliffs are spectacular. Stacks, caves, cuts and overhanging horizontal ledges. Seabirds everywhere.