Name: Dale Pembrokeshire
Rating: 5.0

Wales

Pembrokeshire

United Kingdom





Dale Pembrokeshire is also known as The Smalls.

Dale Pembrokeshire

The Greek was a 4,737 ton steamer and sank in 1940 after colliding with St Anne's Head rocks.

This wreckage may be an interresting second dive.

St Anne's Head, Pembrokeshire. 2.5 nautical miles from Dale.

The Greek is also known as Adamantios J Pithis Wreck.

The Greek

The Dakotian was a 6,426-ton merchant ship. She sank in 1940 (parachute mine) and now sits upright.

Best is to dive 1h before slack tide.

Approx 1 nautical mile from Dale. The wreck is marked by the easterly cardinal buoy named The Dakotian! She is located approx 150 m northwest of the buoy.

The Dakotian Wreck

Two small walls, one on the left and another one on the right. Martins Haven is really a cool place, both for shore divig and picnic with familly & kids.

Take the B4327 from Haverfordwest towards Dale. Turn off for Marloes and go through the village. Turn left for Martin's Haven.

Use the car park 200m before the beach.

Martins Haven

Kelp & sandy floor. Very nice beginer dive.

St Brides Bay! Just west of Little Haven.

St Brides Bay

The bottom of the sea are lined with very large boulders, which give home to the Lobsters. Depths are around 15 m and care must be taken with fishing line, as the fishermen use this area often. In 1996 a 14lb Lobster was seen by the Fishguard Diving Club. It was 5 feet long.

A nice area to explore, tides are weak under the cliffs. The second small bay around from Martins Haven, heading east, there are some interesting gullies and small caves under the kelp at 8 meters. The area drops down to 20m, with a ridge running down from the bay seaward. The area of sand has a small Scallop bed.

The area is protected, as it is in the Skomer reserve, and must not be touched. We have seen Sun Fish swimming along this point, and while I was watching them swim past the boat, they spotted the divers bubbles, diverted their path to decent down the bubbles! When the divers came up they said they saw two fins swim past them!! Here you will also get the chance of seeing octopus at about 15 metres. 

St Brides Bay. By boat. Use GPS to find High Point then dive the wall.

High Point North is also known as St Brides Bay.

High Point North

The Lucy was a coaster; she sank in 1967 and now sits upright at 42m deep.

Off North Haven Bay, Skomer Island (Skomer Marine Reserve ). Approx 1.5 nautical miles from Martin's Haven.

The Lucy Wreck

Very nice little dive site. Full of marine life.

About 2 miles west of Little haven. Drop in on the eastern side of the rocks near the cliff's.

Hen & Chicks

Probably the most popular dive sites around Skomer Island. The wall full of gorgonians starts at 6m deep just after the kelp-covered rocks.

Best is two hours after slack tide. 

North side of Skomer Island. Approx 3 nautical miles from Martin's Haven.

North Wall is also known as North Wall Skomer.

North Wall

On Great Castle Head, cable layer went down during the war - really good wreck in good viz. Runs a bit at times though lots of fish life, some good swim throughs, lies in 19 metres. 

By boat, use GPS to locate, no surface markers.

The Behar

Lundy's jewel-anemone capital is located at the north end of Gannet's Bay on the eastern side of the island. The outside wall of the rock drops down to approximately 30m and you can work your way back up and around the rock, checking out the overhangs on route. There are carpets of both jewel anemones and the incredibly pretty yellow anemones littered across the walls. The latter are another example of larvae that hitched a lift on the Mediterranean current, and Lundy is about as far north as these delicate anemone colonies are found. The wall is also covered with radiant red fingers and their more common relative - dead men's fingers. All of the small cracks and crevices have been utilised by the crustacean populations with both edible and velvet swimming crabs, squat lobsters and shrimps peering out from the relative safety of their rocky homes. 

Lundy Island

Gannet's Rock is also known as Gannet's Pinacle.

Dale Pembrokeshire

Snorkeling and Scuba Diving at Dale Pembrokeshire