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Scenic & shallow wreck diving

For shallow wreck and scenic scuba divers, Marine Quest offers several great dive trips and packages ideal for beginners, trainees, and more experienced divers who prefer shallower dives abundant with marine life. With most dives between 10-30m.

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Highlights include:

  • Berwickshire Marine Reserve (previously known as the famous St Abbs & Eyemouth Voluntary Marine Reserve)

  • Farne Islands

  • Isle of May

  • Bass Rock & Craig Leith

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If you’re new to the area, don’t miss the legendary Black Carr just outside of St Abbs - a dramatic underwater reef famous for sightings of the Wolf fish, a cold water species seen here at its most southerly point.

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The famous SS Glanmire offers slack-water diving at 30m, just 300m offshore, and breathtaking marine life, including wolf fish, conger eels, and large shoals of fish.

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Another interesting dive is the SS Odense (the ‘Peanut boat’), with its surrounding rocky reefs and beautiful kelp forests, an ideal wreck dive for beginners at a max of 15m.

 

You can book a spot on our scheduled dive packages, organise a group charter, or suggest your own, and we'll take care of the rest. Subject to availability, you can also book weekends or individual days within the packages.

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Please subscribe to the mailing list for updates and the latest dive calendar or enquire by email directly to Iain info@marinequest.co.uk

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You can find out more about the Marine Life you might see here using guides such as this practical and fascinating guidebook by Lawson Wood Marine Life of the North Sea and English Channel

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What to expect

Each trip includes two dives, and we take two tanks on board. On full-day trips, we return at lunchtime for an air fill.

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Typical package includes:

  • 5 full days hard boat diving (15 dives)

  • 5 nights B&B - Harbourside dive lodge (arrive the evening before)

  • Lunch & refreshments on board

  • Air fills included (Nitrox extra)

  • Cylinder and weight hire available

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Price: £665​

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Trips are suitable for experienced UK-certified divers with their own equipment.

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Please enquire for weekend and individual day trips.

Scenic Diver

Marine Quest are a small family business, in a small community, doing a great job. If you wanted to dive around Eyemouth or St Abbs, get in touch and see if they are doing something you fancy!
 
I have dived with Marine Quest at least once per year for the past 4 years in the Marine Reserve. Jim and Iain, the skippers, are very friendly and happy to chat about the area, diving, boats, wildlife and will try to tailor the diving to a parties requests where conditions allow. Hot drinks and cake are provided once divers are back on board.

The accommodation is clean, spacious, and very convenient for the dive boats. You can walk from the room, pick up your cylinder from the filling station and be on the boat in under 3 minutes. 
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