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North
Yorkshire is located in North East England and bounded
by the North Sea on the east. There are many easy dives in the
North Sea for novices while the advanced divers will also find
lots of dives to their taste.
Always dive according to your level of training.
Never enter the water without checking with the local dive center
for safety, additional information, level required for each dive
site and without being accompanied by a professional. All the
information provided is purely informative for our readers and
shouldn't be used as is to plan your immersion.
The diving centers in North Yorkshire have a
wide choice of courses to offer from beginner to advanced level.
Pool training is offered and in the winter months much of the
training is done in the inland dive sites like The Blue
Lagoon. Otherwise you can enjoy the nice diving the North
Sea has to offer in summer like the Farne Islands where you can
get the chance to dive with the Atlantic and Grey seal colony.
St. Abbs is also very easily accesible from North
Yorkshire. St. Abbs is a voluntary marine reserve. The marine
reserve is located in a place where waters from the Atlantic and
the North Sea mix. This results in the presence of marine life
from both cold and warm waters.
You can see the devonshire cup coral which is
common on western shorea as well as the bolocera anemone
and the wolf-fish which are primarily Arctic species.
Carved walls, tunnels, archways and gullies are part of the wonderful
underwater scenery that awaits you here. There's dense kelp and
plenty of fish.
The Farne Islands has crystal clear waters and
great diving. There are nice cliffs full of marine life and the
wreckages of several vessels. You can dive with
a colony of seals, the largest in the North Sea and do some great
drift diving.
A lot of wreck diving is done around here. One
of them
The Disperser a salvage vessel makes an interesting
dive. She is at 55 metres (180 feet) of water and is recommended
for advanced divers only. She sank off Whitby in 1934.
Another wreck The Longbeton, a requisitioned
collier went down in 1917 after being torpedoed. She was transporting
a cargo of coal from Devonport to Tyne. The wreck lies in 17 metres
(56 feet) of water and is a relatively easy dive with lots of
marine life.
The Norhilda sunk on August 21st in 1917 after
being torpedoed by UC17 while on a journey from Harwich to Tyne
with cargo in ballast. She is 34 metres (111 feet) and is a very
nice wreck all covered in anenomes.
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