Diving western Ireland (Eire)

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Gat'r

"Tony Howard" <tony@samesamediving.com> wrote in message
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> My wife & I will be visiting the west coast of Southern Ireland in May
> next year, as that co-incides with our tenth anniversary where we spent
> our honeymoon touring Ireland from Rosslaire to Donnegal on a pair of
> motorcycles. At that time my missus was not a dive (she did not even know
> that I was), since then we've spent the last 8 years diving the UK &
> abroad.
>
> This time we are going in our (recently bought) motorhome, with the dive
> gear, so we're looking for recommendations of diving locations and dive
> centres.
>
> We want a dive centre that offers Nitrox and possibly Tri-Mix, has a good
> boat (and skipper) and plenty of decent sites including wrecks as well as
> some good photo opportunities.
>
> TIA
>
> Tony Howard
>

Loc Ness

Gat'r

"Tony Howard" <tony@samesamediving.com> wrote in message
news:42d029f5.0@entanet...
> My wife & I will be visiting the west coast of Southern Ireland in May
> next year, as that co-incides with our tenth anniversary where we spent
> our honeymoon touring Ireland from Rosslaire to Donnegal on a pair of
> motorcycles. At that time my missus was not a dive (she did not even know
> that I was), since then we've spent the last 8 years diving the UK &
> abroad.
>
> This time we are going in our (recently bought) motorhome, with the dive
> gear, so we're looking for recommendations of diving locations and dive
> centres.
>
> We want a dive centre that offers Nitrox and possibly Tri-Mix, has a good
> boat (and skipper) and plenty of decent sites including wrecks as well as
> some good photo opportunities.
>
> TIA
>
> Tony Howard
>

Thanks Cliff, I'll do a trawl of diving in this area & especially the
Kowloon Bridge.


"Cliff Coggin" <clifford@ccoggin.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> "Tony Howard" <tony@samesamediving.com> wrote in message
> news:42d029f5.0@entanet...
>>
>> We want a dive centre that offers Nitrox and possibly Tri-Mix, has a good
>> boat (and skipper) and plenty of decent sites including wrecks as well as
>> some good photo opportunities.
>
>> Tony Howard
>
> There is some outstanding diving on the coast of County Cork in the south
> west, where I have dived wrecks, scenic dives, and caves from Cork to
> Bantry
> Bay. My favourite site is the the Kowloon Bridge, the largest wreck in
> European waters. I don't know the current state of dive centres in the
> area
> as it has been too long since I was last there, except for Waterworld near
> the Maharees which should be avoided like the plague. The problem with
> this
> area of Eire is that it is exposed to the weather coming off the Atlantic
> so
> you will have to take a chance on not having a strong south-westerly.
>
> Cliff.
>
>

Thanks Cliff, I'll do a trawl of diving in this area & especially the
Kowloon Bridge.


"Cliff Coggin" <clifford@ccoggin.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:daql1i$q8h$2@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...
>
> "Tony Howard" <tony@samesamediving.com> wrote in message
> news:42d029f5.0@entanet...
>>
>> We want a dive centre that offers Nitrox and possibly Tri-Mix, has a good
>> boat (and skipper) and plenty of decent sites including wrecks as well as
>> some good photo opportunities.
>
>> Tony Howard
>
> There is some outstanding diving on the coast of County Cork in the south
> west, where I have dived wrecks, scenic dives, and caves from Cork to
> Bantry
> Bay. My favourite site is the the Kowloon Bridge, the largest wreck in
> European waters. I don't know the current state of dive centres in the
> area
> as it has been too long since I was last there, except for Waterworld near
> the Maharees which should be avoided like the plague. The problem with
> this
> area of Eire is that it is exposed to the weather coming off the Atlantic
> so
> you will have to take a chance on not having a strong south-westerly.
>
> Cliff.
>
>

Thanks Cliff, I'll do a trawl of diving in this area & especially the
Kowloon Bridge.


"Cliff Coggin" <clifford@ccoggin.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:daql1i$q8h$2@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...
>
> "Tony Howard" <tony@samesamediving.com> wrote in message
> news:42d029f5.0@entanet...
>>
>> We want a dive centre that offers Nitrox and possibly Tri-Mix, has a good
>> boat (and skipper) and plenty of decent sites including wrecks as well as
>> some good photo opportunities.
>
>> Tony Howard
>
> There is some outstanding diving on the coast of County Cork in the south
> west, where I have dived wrecks, scenic dives, and caves from Cork to
> Bantry
> Bay. My favourite site is the the Kowloon Bridge, the largest wreck in
> European waters. I don't know the current state of dive centres in the
> area
> as it has been too long since I was last there, except for Waterworld near
> the Maharees which should be avoided like the plague. The problem with
> this
> area of Eire is that it is exposed to the weather coming off the Atlantic
> so
> you will have to take a chance on not having a strong south-westerly.
>
> Cliff.
>
>

Thanks Cliff, I'll do a trawl of diving in this area & especially the
Kowloon Bridge.


"Cliff Coggin" <clifford@ccoggin.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:daql1i$q8h$2@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...
>
> "Tony Howard" <tony@samesamediving.com> wrote in message
> news:42d029f5.0@entanet...
>>
>> We want a dive centre that offers Nitrox and possibly Tri-Mix, has a good
>> boat (and skipper) and plenty of decent sites including wrecks as well as
>> some good photo opportunities.
>
>> Tony Howard
>
> There is some outstanding diving on the coast of County Cork in the south
> west, where I have dived wrecks, scenic dives, and caves from Cork to
> Bantry
> Bay. My favourite site is the the Kowloon Bridge, the largest wreck in
> European waters. I don't know the current state of dive centres in the
> area
> as it has been too long since I was last there, except for Waterworld near
> the Maharees which should be avoided like the plague. The problem with
> this
> area of Eire is that it is exposed to the weather coming off the Atlantic
> so
> you will have to take a chance on not having a strong south-westerly.
>
> Cliff.
>
>

Thanks Cliff, I'll do a trawl of diving in this area & especially the
Kowloon Bridge.


"Cliff Coggin" <clifford@ccoggin.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:daql1i$q8h$2@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...
>
> "Tony Howard" <tony@samesamediving.com> wrote in message
> news:42d029f5.0@entanet...
>>
>> We want a dive centre that offers Nitrox and possibly Tri-Mix, has a good
>> boat (and skipper) and plenty of decent sites including wrecks as well as
>> some good photo opportunities.
>
>> Tony Howard
>
> There is some outstanding diving on the coast of County Cork in the south
> west, where I have dived wrecks, scenic dives, and caves from Cork to
> Bantry
> Bay. My favourite site is the the Kowloon Bridge, the largest wreck in
> European waters. I don't know the current state of dive centres in the
> area
> as it has been too long since I was last there, except for Waterworld near
> the Maharees which should be avoided like the plague. The problem with
> this
> area of Eire is that it is exposed to the weather coming off the Atlantic
> so
> you will have to take a chance on not having a strong south-westerly.
>
> Cliff.
>
>

Thanks Cliff, I'll do a trawl of diving in this area & especially the
Kowloon Bridge.


"Cliff Coggin" <clifford@ccoggin.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:daql1i$q8h$2@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...
>
> "Tony Howard" <tony@samesamediving.com> wrote in message
> news:42d029f5.0@entanet...
>>
>> We want a dive centre that offers Nitrox and possibly Tri-Mix, has a good
>> boat (and skipper) and plenty of decent sites including wrecks as well as
>> some good photo opportunities.
>
>> Tony Howard
>
> There is some outstanding diving on the coast of County Cork in the south
> west, where I have dived wrecks, scenic dives, and caves from Cork to
> Bantry
> Bay. My favourite site is the the Kowloon Bridge, the largest wreck in
> European waters. I don't know the current state of dive centres in the
> area
> as it has been too long since I was last there, except for Waterworld near
> the Maharees which should be avoided like the plague. The problem with
> this
> area of Eire is that it is exposed to the weather coming off the Atlantic
> so
> you will have to take a chance on not having a strong south-westerly.
>
> Cliff.
>
>

"Tony Howard" <tony@samesamediving.com> wrote in message
news:42d029f5.0@entanet...
> My wife & I will be visiting the west coast of Southern Ireland in May
next
> year, as that co-incides with our tenth anniversary where we spent our
> honeymoon touring Ireland from Rosslaire to Donnegal on a pair of
> motorcycles. At that time my missus was not a dive (she did not even know
> that I was), since then we've spent the last 8 years diving the UK &
abroad.
>
> This time we are going in our (recently bought) motorhome, with the dive
> gear, so we're looking for recommendations of diving locations and dive
> centres.
>
> We want a dive centre that offers Nitrox and possibly Tri-Mix, has a good
> boat (and skipper) and plenty of decent sites including wrecks as well as
> some good photo opportunities.
>
> TIA
>
> Tony Howard
>
>

jerry and rianne at aquaventures in baltimore. get to do the kowloon bridge,
various other wrecks, fastnet rock and the U260. pretty certain they do
trimix, deffo do nitrox though. diving when we were there 5 years ago was
from a large, fast rib. jerry skippers the boat and is hugely knowledgeable
on the wreck locations - to the point where he'd put the pick within 1m of
the centre of one of the 3m dia boilers on the alondra "it's close to the
boiler" jerry would announce.

"Tony Howard" <tony@samesamediving.com> wrote in message
news:42d029f5.0@entanet...
> My wife & I will be visiting the west coast of Southern Ireland in May
next
> year, as that co-incides with our tenth anniversary where we spent our
> honeymoon touring Ireland from Rosslaire to Donnegal on a pair of
> motorcycles. At that time my missus was not a dive (she did not even know
> that I was), since then we've spent the last 8 years diving the UK &
abroad.
>
> This time we are going in our (recently bought) motorhome, with the dive
> gear, so we're looking for recommendations of diving locations and dive
> centres.
>
> We want a dive centre that offers Nitrox and possibly Tri-Mix, has a good
> boat (and skipper) and plenty of decent sites including wrecks as well as
> some good photo opportunities.
>
> TIA
>
> Tony Howard
>
>

jerry and rianne at aquaventures in baltimore. get to do the kowloon bridge,
various other wrecks, fastnet rock and the U260. pretty certain they do
trimix, deffo do nitrox though. diving when we were there 5 years ago was
from a large, fast rib. jerry skippers the boat and is hugely knowledgeable
on the wreck locations - to the point where he'd put the pick within 1m of
the centre of one of the 3m dia boilers on the alondra "it's close to the
boiler" jerry would announce.