Divers Down - Swanage Pier, Swanage, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, UK
Posted by: Dragontree
N 50° 36.516 W 001° 57.044
30U E 574243 N 5606826
Divers Down is a hugely popular area to dive from off Swanage Pier.
Waymark Code: WM547Z
Location: Southern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/08/2008
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The website describes the diving available off the pier:
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'Thousands come to the Pier to Scuba Dive under the Pier or to board boats to other local dive destinations. An area adjacent to the Pier being buoyed off as a safe Diver training zone.
The Dive shop is operated by Divers Down, here divers can hire equipment, charge up their cylinders or do diver training courses.
Divers Down is celebrating its 50th year of operation in 2008 and is the oldest Diving School in the UK.
The Pier is also the home of the Isle of Purbeck Sub-Aqua Club, an active club of 50 plus members and now in its 20th year.'
Divers Down is Britain's oldest diving school. There are opportunities to dive under the pier and off the pier to ship wrecks further out in the bay. They describe their facilities:
'The Dive Shop on Swanage Pier, providing Boat Charter, Air, Nitrox, Hire Equipment and Shop Sales. The shop is open 7 days a week, (weather permitting) to supply you with all you need to carry out your dive. At weekends the air filling station opens at 08.00 and closes between 17.00 and 20.00 depending on demand. If for any reason the shop is not open during the day when you require something, please just phone us on 07977 142661, as we are never usually more than a few minutes away.'
It costs £2.00 for a day for diver's to enter the pier area.