Diving
Seacliffs Dives
I've dived at Seacliffs 8 times:
| Dive number | Date | Site | Location | Area | Country | Wreck | Freshwater | Depth (m) | Bottom time (min) | Total time (min) | Divers | Quality | Summary | Equipment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
10
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25 May 1980 | Seacliffs | North Berwick | Forth | Scotland | 9 | 37 | 37 | Iain Hosking, Lorna Miller, Robin Gray |  |
Looking for lobsters. Found several large ones but couldn't get them out because horizontal crevices went back too far. Visibility fantastic - 30 feet or more. Light sand on bottom made it brighter. Used 90 ats. | Steel 60, own dv, ABLJ 6 (somewhat buoyant - try another 2lbs weight) | ||
| 11
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25 May 1980 | Seacliffs | North Berwick | Forth | Scotland | 6 | 20 | 20 | Iain Hosking, Lorna Miller |  |
Dived with Lorna again. Very buoyant; had a lot of trouble getting down. Found another lobster - shy and retiring like the others. Also saw dozens of hermit crabs and a purple seaslug. | as before | ||
| 63
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30 Aug 1981 | Seacliffs | North Berwick | Forth | Scotland | 6 | 25 | 25 | Iain Hosking, Zana Juppenlatz | |
Swam out through harbour channel and bore right. After a long swim over kelp got to open, sandy area with rock wall to south. Many crabs in crevices and one lobster. Some fish - young cod? | Steel 60 | ||
| 101
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15 May 1982 | Seacliffs | North Berwick | Forth | Scotland | 9 | 50 | 50 | Iain Hosking, Ceri Reid, Eric Franz | |
Lobster hunt with Ceri and Eric. Vis fairly poor. No lobsters in clefts - all in lobster pots instead, a new innovation. Plenty of squat lobsters and one fish. Also fishing line. Evening dive - in about 7pm. Good sunset. | own (New Typhoon depth gauge - works!) | ||
| 102
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18 May 1982 | Seacliffs | North Berwick | Forth | Scotland | 6 | 20 | 20 | Iain Hosking, Ceri Reid |  |
Second lobster hunt. Forgot weight belt (rats!) so borrowed Susan's and was somewhat buoyant. Let all air out of suit so water came in great quantities => cold. But! found huge lobster in cleft - trouble was, it was inextricable. Went for a snorkel beforehand. Vis fairly poor. | own, but Susan's weight belt (24lbs) and Ceri's Ocean Pro | ||
| 103
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21 May 1982 | Seacliffs | North Berwick | Forth | Scotland | 5 | 5 | 5 | Iain Hosking, Ceri Reid, Eric Franz |  |
In water after 9pm so dark and very low vis, 2-3m. Dive abruptly cut short by realisation of massive leak in cuff. | own | ||
| 132
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15 Jun 1983 | Seacliffs | North Berwick | Forth | Scotland | 8 | 25 | 25 | Iain Hosking, Geoff Hide | |
Evening dive, before vet's barbecue. Vis 6m. Lobster, edible crabs, swimming crabs, spider crabs and fish. Dry! | own | ||
| 208
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22 Nov 1984 | Seacliffs | North Berwick | Forth | Scotland | 3 | 20 | 20 | Iain Hosking, Ross Butler | |
Conditions worse than expected. Zero vis, current and waves. Gave up after 3rd attempt and retired to harbour. Nearly as bad as Largs beach! | own |