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I've dived at 238 sites:

Name	Location	Area	Country	Wreck	Freshwater	Description	Notes
Agate	Kilchiaran Bay	Islay	Scotland
Akka	The Gantocks	Clyde	Scotland				Launch at Cardwell Bay.
Alfred Earlandsen	Ebb Carrs, St Abbs	Forth	Scotland
Alligator Rock	Bicheno	Tasmania	Australia
Am Plastair	Soay	St Kilda	Scotland
An Dubh-sgeir	Sango Bay	North-west Scotland	Scotland				'The Black Rock'. Where's Tintin?
Anlaby	May Island	Forth	Scotland
Argyll	Bell Rock	Scottish East Coast	Scotland				HMS Argyll was a four-funnel WW1 cruiser. There is a model of her in the Glasgow Museum of transport. (It used to be in the Kelvingrove Gallery, a most impressive sight amidst the stone columns and marble floor.)
Auliston Point	Loch Sunart	Scottish West Coast	Scotland
Ballista	Sound of Mull	Mull	Scotland				Sank in 1975. The 'River Tay' lies underneath.
Balmeanach Bay	The Braes	Skye	Scotland
Balmoral Beach		Sydney	Australia
Bare Island	La Perouse	Sydney	Australia
Barge, Forster	off Forster	Forster	Australia				[link]http://australia.greatestdivesites.com/new_south_wales/forster/barge[/link], though why it's one of Australia's greatest dive sites is a mystery on my evidence.
Barron's Hut	off Port Hacking	Sydney	Australia				Good cave and tunnel - best with a small group of experienced divers so the silt isn't stirred up.
Bass and Flinders Point	Cronulla	Sydney	Australia
Bass Rock		Forth	Scotland
Beagle	North of Great Cumbrae	Clyde	Scotland
Belnahua		Oban	Scotland
Belnahua Quarry	Belnahua	Oban	Scotland				Fresh is the wrong word for the water in this flooded slate quarry. I quote from dive 273: "The fantastic vis lasted till 8m, below which was a pit of a yellowish evil-smelling substance not at all conducive to diving in."
Bennetts Head Bommie	Underneath Bennetts Head Lookout	Forster	Australia				An isolated rock formation almost 80 metres long, standing from the sand at 10 metres depth to just below the surface. On the ocean side there is a small swim through cave. http://forsterdivecentre.com.au/divesitesdetail.php?DiveSite=9
Bicheno Slip	Bicheno	Tasmania	Australia
Birchgrove Park	Avalon	Sydney	Australia				640 ton collier, sunk in a gale on August 2nd 1956. Only 4 of her crew of 14 survived.
Boat Harbour	East of Longnose Point, N side of the Bay	Jervis Bay	Australia				Probably wouldn't look like much on the daytime, but it made a good night dive with a weedy sea dragon, cuttlefish and a moray eel. Clear water and good phosphorescence.
Bombo	Wollongong	Sydney	Australia				A steam-engined collier which sank in 1949 in a storm when the cargo of coal shifted. 2 men survived. Just accessible from Sydney as a day dive.
Bowen Island		Jervis Bay	Australia				Site consists of huge boulders with swim-throughs.
Breda	Benderloch	Oban	Scotland				This wreck will be 'opened up' by the Royal Navy in 1995 after two American divers died on it.
Briggs Reef		Great Barrier Reef	Australia
Brummer	Scapa Flow	Orkney	Scotland				Light cruiser
Calve Island Cliffs	NE corner of Calve Island	Mull	Scotland
Camp Cove	East of Watson's Bay	Sydney	Australia				Entry at Green Point.
Cape Hawke (north side)		Forster	Australia
Cape Solander	Round from Inscription Point, Kurnell	Sydney	Australia
Catalina	Great Cumbrae	Clyde	Scotland				Flying Boat
Cathedral		Holmes Reef	Australia
Cathedral Cave	Point Perpendicular	Jervis Bay	Australia
Catterthun	Seal Rocks	Forster	Australia				Sank in 1895, only 27 surviving from 87 on board.
Cessna 150	Sound of Mull	Mull	Scotland
Chadwick	West coast of Skye	Skye	Scotland
Chester II	Off Fidra	Forth	Scotland				I haven't actually dived this wreck, but I've been near it.
Cod Rock	Broughton Island	Nelson Bay	Australia			Close to Looking Glass	Features a sizeable cave and a lave tube you can swim through. First dived 27 Jan 2023.
Coolooli	Long Reef	Sydney	Australia				Dredger, sunk deliberately as an artificial reef in 1980.
Creran Bridge		Oban	Scotland
Cuan Ferry	Seil Island	Oban	Scotland
Dartmouth	Sound of Mull	Mull	Scotland
Darts Point	N. side of the Bay	Jervis Bay	Australia
Dee Why	Long Reef	Sydney	Australia				Double-ended Sydney ferry
Destroyer	Scapa Flow	Orkney	Scotland				WWII destroyer
Doris		Skye	Scotland
Dresden	Scapa Flow	Orkney	Scotland				Light cruiser
Dubh-sgeir Mhor	Tongue Bay	North-west Scotland	Scotland				Not sure about the spelling, but if my Gaelic serves me right this means 'big black rock'. It's more poetic in the Gaelic.
Dun Domhnuill	Garvellachs (SW corner of the islan)	Oban	Scotland
Dun Mór	Sanday	Outer Hebrides	Scotland				I'm not sure if Sanday is in the Outer Hebrides or not - must check.
Dunbar	South side of the Firth of Forth	Forth	Scotland				Common site for EUSAC training dives.
Dunollie Castle	Oban Bay	Oban	Scotland
Easdale	Seil Island	Oban	Scotland
Easdale Quarry	Easdale, Seil Island	Oban	Scotland
East Shark Island		Sydney	Australia
Eel gardens	off Kona Airport	Hawaii	USA				Named after the garden eels that live here.
Eilean Grianal	2 miles north-west of Dunvegan	Skye	Scotland
Eilean Imersay	Ardbeg	Islay	Scotland				Near the 'John Strachan'
Eyemouth		Forth	Scotland
F2 & barge	Scapa Flow	Orkney	Scotland
Fairey Firefly VX381		Jervis Bay	Australia				Well described on p68 of Tom Byron's book. Pilot and observer escaped after ditching.
Fairlight	Manly	Sydney	Australia
Falls of Lora	Loch Etive	Oban	Scotland				Tides: add 1 hour 46 minutes to HW Oban.
Fidra	North Berwick	Forth	Scotland
Fish Reef	off Port Hacking	Sydney	Australia				One of Max's sites. It takes 20 minutes to circumnavigate the reef, and it has most of what you could ask for - swimthroughs, overhangs, cuttlefish and even a black stingray.
Fish Rock	South West Rocks	NSW North Coast	Australia				An unassuming name for a brilliant site. It is indeed a rock, and you will see fish.
Fladda		Oban	Scotland
Floristan	Kilchiaran Bay	Islay	Scotland
Fly Point		Nelson Bay	Australia
Furnace	Loch Fyne	Kintyre	Scotland
Galava	Terrigal	Sydney	Australia				The 'Galava' was a 413 ton collier (steam-engined, single screw). Sunk February 9th 1927.
Gap Cave	Boat left from Watson's Bay	Sydney	Australia
Gitana	Loch Rannoch	Scottish Highlands	Scotland				This wreck is unfortunately not there now. The wreck, a nineteenth-century Victorian steam yacht, was lifted and 'restored' by a local innkeeper before being driven ashore and wrecked in a winter gale, this time for good.
Glanmire	St Abbs Head	Forth	Scotland
Golden Gift	Oban Bay	Oban	Scotland
Golden Harvest	Kyle of Lochalsh	Skye	Scotland				Trawler, sank in 1977.
Gorgonia Wall	Point Perpendicular	Jervis Bay	Australia
Granton		Forth	Scotland
Green Island		Jervis Bay	Australia
Guerrilla Bay	South of Bateman's Bay	Bateman's Bay	Australia
Guns of the Bayern	Scapa Flow	Orkney	Scotland				'The Guns of the Bayern' has an even more ominous sound to it when you learn that at least one diver has lost his life when he couldn't find his way out of the turrets.
Hairy Wall	Bicheno	Tasmania	Australia
Hallcaine		Sydney	Australia				A wooden steamship, so only machinery is left - boiler, engine, anchor, winches and two bronze props.
Harald	Mull of Oa	Islay	Scotland				Norwegian steamship. So far as we know, discovered by us.
Haven Sponge Gardens	Terrigal	Sydney	Australia
Hayden's Rock	off Forster Main Beach	Forster	Australia				Shallow, yet popular with grey nurse sharks
Heather Island		Oban	Scotland
Helen Wilson	Kerrera (Ardentrive Bay, opposite Oban Harbour)	Oban	Scotland
Helena Faulbaums	Belnahua	Oban	Scotland
Hispania	Sound of Mull	Mull	Scotland
Hole in the Wall	Avalon	Sydney	Australia
Huskisson Pier		Jervis Bay	Australia
Idol Bay		Forster	Australia				[link]http://australia.greatestdivesites.com/new_south_wales/forster/idol_bay[/link]
Inscription Point	Kurnell	Sydney	Australia
Insh Island	NW of Seil Island	Oban	Scotland
Islay	Port Ellen	Islay	Scotland				A MacBrayne's paddlesteamer, 187 tons net, which sank in 1902 en route from Glasgow to Port Ellen.
Isle Martin	Loch Broom	North-west Scotland	Scotland
John Strachan		Islay	Scotland
Julian Rocks		Byron Bay	Australia
Julie-Ann		Jervis Bay	Australia				You won't find this wreck there now. It was temporary.
K? reef	Bicheno	Tasmania	Australia
Karlsruhe	Scapa Flow	Orkney	Scotland				Light cruiser
Kenmore Point	Loch Fyne	Kintyre	Scotland
Kintyre	Wemyss Bay	Clyde	Scotland
Köln	Scapa Flow	Orkney	Scotland				Light cruiser
Kona Airport	off Kona Airport	Hawaii	USA				Manta rays. Not the night we dived there, though. Frank, the eel, comes out at night.
König	Scapa Flow	Orkney	Scotland				25,000 ton battleship
Kronprinz Wilhelm	Scapa Flow	Orkney	Scotland				Battleship
Lake Jindabyne	The flooded town of Jindabyne	Snowy Mountains	Australia				The old town of Jindabyne was flooded in 1962 when Lake Jindabyne was created as part of the Snowy River scheme. Very little remains.
Largs		Clyde	Scotland
Latitude Rock		Forster	Australia
Leith		Forth	Scotland
Leuim an Fheidh	Cliffs to north of Isle Martin, Loch Broom	North-west Scotland	Scotland
Levenish, north face		St Kilda	Scotland
Limelight	Port Ellen	Islay	Scotland				Puffer, 143 tons gross. Sank 1966.
Linn of Dee	Somewhere west of Balmoral	Scottish Highlands	Scotland
Lion Island	Broken Bay	Sydney	Australia
Little Cumbrae	West side	Clyde	Scotland				A unique dive site, in that all we saw was water. The water depth was 110m.
Little Loch Broom		North-west Scotland	Scotland
Loch Ailort		North-west Scotland	Scotland
Loch Duich	Ratagan and Inverinate	Scottish West Coast	Scotland
Loch Lomond Cliffs	Loch Lomond	Clyde	Scotland				Well, it's an alternative to the Clyde, in the same area.
Loch Long		Clyde	Scotland				I'm not sure whether it's justified geographically, but spiritually Loch Long is part of the Clyde.
Loch Sunart		Scottish West Coast	Scotland
Lochgoilhead	At the head of Loch Goil	Kintyre	Scotland
Long Bay	Fisherman's Road, Malabar	Sydney	Australia				The suburb of Long Bay was renamed Malabar after the 1931 shipwreck. Sheltered from the north, but not a whole lot to see.
Long Reef	Dee Why	Sydney	Australia
Looking Glass	Broughton Island	Nelson Bay	Australia				As named by Let's Go Adventures. Grey nurse sharks
Ludlow	Off Yellowcraigs Beach	Forth	Scotland
Magic Point	Cronulla	Sydney	Australia			Grey nurse sharks	https://www.abyss.com.au/en/magic-point-boat-dive
Manly	Around the corner from Shelly Beach	Sydney	Australia
Markgraf	Scapa Flow	Orkney	Scotland				Battleship
May Island		Forth	Scotland
Meall Thailm	North-east of Tongue Bay	North-west Scotland	Scotland
Meanish Pier		Skye	Scotland
Meldon	Loch Buie	Mull	Scotland
Michaelmas Cay		Great Barrier Reef	Australia
Middle Ground	Out from Port Hacking	Sydney	Australia
Midway Reef	Dee Why	Sydney	Australia
Mina Stac	NE of Hirta	St Kilda	Scotland
Molokini	Maui	Hawaii	USA				Molokini is a crescent-shaped eroded steam vent, fantastic for snorkelling, and with a shark feeding station round the far side.
Muir Rock	Bicheno	Tasmania	Australia
Mull of Oa		Islay	Scotland
Nerong	Norah Head, Terrigal	Sydney	Australia
Nonnkina Bommie		Holmes Reef	Australia				Japanese for 'relaxing'. A coral bommie with a constellation of fish all around it, including clownfish in close attendance to their anemone, rock cod (spots), trevally (shoal), butterflyfish (long nose), longfin bannerfish, angelfish, half-and-half chromis (front black, back white), wrasse (a multitude of colours and shapes), steephead parrotfish, fire dartfish (like a blenny with a sabre-like dorsal fin), striped surgeonfish (yellow, longitudinal black stripes with blue/white stripes in centre of black stripes - poisonous blade either side of the tailfin), clown triggerfish (dots on top, white patches underneath. As well as the fish we saw numerous different kinds of coral, crinoids and, on top of the bommie, a beautiful big crayfish, in a pink/lilac/white colour scheme.
Nordhuk		Skye	Scotland
North Bondi		Sydney	Australia
North Connel		Oban	Scotland
North Head		Sydney	Australia				PADI Deep Course November 1988
North Rock	Broughton Island	Nelson Bay	Australia				As named by Let's Go Adventures. Grey nurse sharks
Not the Foggy Shark Cave	Terrigal	Sydney	Australia
Not the Yambacoona	Terrigal	Sydney	Australia
Oak Park	Oak Park	Sydney	Australia
Ocean Bride	Loch Sween	Kintyre	Scotland				The 'Ocean Bride' was a cabin cruiser handed over to EUSAC by the University Zoology Department. Unfortunately it sank before we had a chance to do anything with it. Our mission was to raise it.
Oigh Sgeir Light	West of Rhum	Outer Hebrides	Scotland
One Mile Gutter		Forster	Australia
Osborne Shoals		Sydney	Australia
Ostend		Mull	Scotland
Otranto	Kilchiaran Bay	Islay	Scotland
Otter Ferry	Loch Fyne	Kintyre	Scotland
Paddy Hinkley's Quarry		Forth	Scotland
Paradise Reef	Bicheno	Tasmania	Australia
Pelican	Calve Island, Tobermory Bay	Mull	Scotland
Pettico Wick	South side of the Forth, west of St Abbs	Forth	Scotland
Point Perpendicular		Jervis Bay	Australia
Port Napier	Kyle of Lochalsh	Skye	Scotland				One of the most impressive Scottish wrecks, with mine tubes running half the length of the vessel, guns, sea life, vis and all in a reasonable depth. The story of its sinking is impressive too.
Prawn trawler	Kihei/Weilia	Hawaii	USA				Sunk as an artificial reef (along with car tyres in frames). Great spot for turtles.
Predator's Playground		Holmes Reef	Australia
Priest Island	Summer Isles	North-west Scotland	Scotland
Priest Rock	Sound of Arisaig	North-west Scotland	Scotland
Propeller Gutters		Jervis Bay	Australia				Can't find any reference to this site online.
Raasay, south end		Skye	Scotland
Railway Quay	Oban Bay	Oban	Scotland
Rhodesia	Duntulm Bay	Skye	Scotland
River Tweed	English side	North-east England	England				My one English dive site to date.
Rondo	Eileanan Glasa, Sound of Mull	Mull	Scotland				Eileanan Glasa means 'Green Island'
Rosehearty	Somewhere north of Aberdeen	Scottish East Coast	Scotland				Near where 'Local Hero' was filmed
Royal Fusilier	off Dunbar	Forth	Scotland
Royal Shepherd	South Head	Sydney	Australia
Rubha Bhrengadal	Boreray	St Kilda	Scotland
Salen Pier	Salen	Mull	Scotland
Satara	Seal Rocks	Forster	Australia				5000 ton steamship, built in Scotland in 1901. Struck a reef and sank in April, 1910.
Seacliffs	North Berwick	Forth	Scotland
Seal Cave, Rubha Ghill Caves	E end of Hirta	St Kilda	Scotland
Seal Colony	Steamers Beach	Jervis Bay	Australia				South of Jervix Bay proper, past Cape St George (box 100 on Tom Byron's map).
Seal Rocks		Forster	Australia
Sgarbhstac Submarine Arch	Boreray	St Kilda	Scotland
Sgeir à Phuirt	Canna	Outer Hebrides	Scotland				Is Canna in the Outer Hebrides?
Sgeir an Oir Ealean	North-east side of Tongue Bay	North-west Scotland	Scotland
Sgeir Maol Mhoraidh	Loch Ewe	North-west Scotland	Scotland
Sgeir Neoghluasadach	Summer Isles	North-west Scotland	Scotland				South of Tanera Beg. The name means 'Motionless Rock'.
Shark Rock	N. side of the Bay	Jervis Bay	Australia				Grey nurse sharks are beginning to return to this area for the first time since the 1970s. Sandy bottom at 15m, then rock, including some house-sized boulders.
Shelly Beach	Manly	Sydney	Australia
Shiprock	Port Hacking	Sydney	Australia
Shuna		Islay	Scotland
Soay, East of Am Plaistir	North side of Soay	St Kilda	Scotland
Sound of Kerrera		Oban	Scotland
South Head		Sydney	Australia				PADI Deep Course November 1988
Soyea Island	Lochinver, Sutherland	North-west Scotland	Scotland
Split Rock	Bicheno	Tasmania	Australia
Spot A	Latitude Rock, Cape Hawke	Forster	Australia
St Abbs	South side of the Firth of Forth	Forth	Scotland				A common site for EUSAC Sunday training dives.
St Abbs Head	South side of the Firth of Forth	Forth	Scotland				Site of the 'Glanmire', which has never been found on any outing I've made to this site.
Stac Lee	SE face	St Kilda	Scotland
Stassa	Rodel Bay, Harris	Outer Hebrides	Scotland				Russian cargo vessel, diesel-engined, with a cargo of Baltic pine, which ran aground on a rock at the entrance to the bay, ripped its bottom out, then reversed off the rock and sank. Date - late 1960s or early 70s. Site is right beside the ancient church at Rodel.
Sub-Sea Services	George St, Aberdeen	Scottish East Coast	Scotland				Well, Aberdeen is on the Scottish East Coast...
Switha	Off Edinburgh	Forth	Scotland				You don't so much dive this wreck as walk around it. It's an ex-RN minesweeper (with a steam engine) which was run aground on its return up the Forth after an exercise.
The Abyss		Holmes Reef	Australia
The Apartments	Long Reef, Collaroy	Sydney	Australia				A 5 minute boat trip from the beach at Collaroy. Big boulders and a good swim-through. Large shoals of yellowtail & nannegai. Wobbegong.
The Balcony	off Royal National Park	Sydney	Australia
The Castle	Bicheno	Tasmania	Australia
The Caves		Holmes Reef	Australia				An effortless drift beside and above the reef. Lovely pastel coral shades - green, blue, pink, yellow - and a heap of fish. The clown triggerfish stood out. Nice blue and yellow tubeworms too.
The Docks	NW of Point Perpendicular	Jervis Bay	Australia
The Gutter	Bass Point, Shellharbour	Sydney	Australia
The Pinnacles, Avalon	North of Avalon Beach	Sydney	Australia				Atlantis Divers run trips to this site from Palm Beach. If you keep your eyes peeled you might see a sea dragon.
The Pinnacles, Forster		Forster	Australia
The Sawcut	Dún	St Kilda	Scotland
The Slot	Point Perpendicular, adjoining The Docks	Jervis Bay	Australia				A sawcut, open at the top, running back 30m into the cliff, with a floor of white shell sand and crystal clear water (even when murky outside).
The Steps	Bicheno	Tasmania	Australia
The Tubes		Jervis Bay	Australia
The Twins		Holmes Reef	Australia				Shallow dive giving the diver plenty of time to view dozens of species of fish, including yellow goatfish, butterflyfish, blue-spotted fantail stingray, black-backed butterflyfish, moorish idol, surgeonfish, damselfish, fire dartfish. Attractive coral too.
The Wall, Long Reef	Collaroy	Sydney	Australia
Thesis	Sound of Mull	Mull	Scotland
Tuggerah	Royal National Park	Sydney	Australia				Collier, 749 g.t. Built on the Clyde in 1912. Sank in gale May 1919.
UB116	Scapa Flow	Orkney	Scotland				U-boat
Underwater Wilderness	off Royal National Park	Sydney	Australia
Undola	off Royal National Park	Sydney	Australia				Collier, 429 g.t. Built Paisley 1909. Sunk December 1918. No survivors.
Urlana	Geo Mor, NW of Idrigill Point, near Harlosh	Skye	Scotland
Valiant	NE of Barrenjoey Light	Sydney	Australia				The Valiant was a tug, which sank in 1981 on its way to be scuttled after the Maritime Services Board failed to survey it. The tow rope parted in rough weather and 30 seconds later it sank. The wreck is lying tilted over to its port side in 28m and is intact, but beginning to rust through. It is possible to swim round the engine room and crew's quarters, and there are plenty of fish to be seen, including a moray eel.
Viking Bommie		Holmes Reef	Australia
Wallachia	The Gantocks	Clyde	Scotland
Wemyss Bay		Clyde	Scotland
West Point	Pitt Water	Sydney	Australia
William H Welch	Furadh Mor	North-west Scotland	Scotland
Yorky's Patches	South-west of Hastings Reef	Great Barrier Reef	Australia