The area of the coast of Weymouth and Portland is a haven for shipwrecks locally we have scores to choose from.
You can dive warships, submarines old sailing ships and well basically anything you want. Some wrecks are not too far offshore and we can normally dive whatever the weather as we have some sheltered locations. Here is a small selection to wet your appetite. If you wish to know more about what to dive other than the wrecks listed below please contact us and we will be only to glad to help.
Technical divers have used Skin Deep since the early 1990’s when the mixed gas revolution first swept mainstream diving and it’s these divers that have opened up many of the offshore deeper wrecks.
Scenic Dives and Drift Dives
Weymouth & Portland is situated in the centre of Dorset’s Jurassic coastline with an abundance of reef and ledge dives such as Pulpit rock, Durdle door, Stennis ledges and Lulworth banks which are all homes to an amazing verity of marine life. We’ve also got some of the countrys classic drift dives round the area of Portland Bill and are very often the choice of second dives. Life thrives in these strong tidal conditions and the area offers a number of good drift dives, some will fly you through dramatic seabed locations lined with deadmans fingers and plumrose anenomies. Look more closely amongst this marine growth and you will often find unusual nudibranchs, octopus, as well as gorgeously coloured anemones that adorn these gullies.
With the catamaran we are travelling further and faster and operating from different ports in the Southwest. We often have some exciting weeks for the wreck hunters but if you just fancy a good dive have a look at this list of excellent wrecks – it’s just a few of the many great sites we have.
Black Hawk bow - 16m The Black Hawk was a 7,191-ton US Liberty ship, built 1943 and powered by a single 3-cylinder triple expansion engine. She measured 441ft by 57ft…
The Arfon was built in 1908 in Goole, for the Peter Steam Trawling Company of Milford in South Wales as a 227-ton steel trawler. The Arfon was requisitioned by the…
A destroyer sunk early in WW2 by German aircraft. I am told that the aircraft found her mid-channel using an early form of radar, which if true she must surely…
After being torpedoed this large ship sank so quickly that there was only one survivor out of a crew of 56 he was able to jump overboard and then hang…
In 1862 an Act of Parliament was passed authorising the London and Southwestern Railway Company to own and operate ships. The first vessel built for the London and Southwestern Railway…
I remember back in 1995 talking to one of the country’s pioneer mixed gas divers Alan Yeend about this sailing ship. I was explaining how she was one I would…
Alex van Opstal - 28m This Danish built, Belgian owned 5965-ton cargo and passenger liner was one of the first large ships to be sunk by mines just 2 weeks…
German U- Boat approx 55m, broken in front of the conning tower winter garden and life raft tubes still visible excellent dive and strong example of a type VII C…