Name: Blue Lagoon
Rating: 4.0

England

United Kingdom

A flooded quarry with a selection of training platforms. Attractions include a Howitzer Field Gun, Sabre Light Tank and a Hunter Plane.

Womersley, Nr Pontefract

Blue Lagoon is also known as Spring Lodge Lake.

Blue Lagoon

Typical quarry with pretty poor vis. Dive site owner very amenable and helpful.

From the M62 dirt track off Mires Lane.

Eight Acres is also known as Eight Acres Quarry.

Eight Acres

Open all year 7 days a week from 10.00am. Lots to see - Puma Helicopter, 5 boats of various sizes, large swim through pipe, body from a reconnaissance vehicle and training platforms. The water is being filtered so visibility can be very good. However, the bottom composition is silt so visibility can be severely reduced by poor buoyancy control. Even then it is a good training experience. PADI courses available from Discover Scuba to Instructor. Good sociable feel all welcome regardless of experience or affiliation.

Access from Mires Lane, North Cave only. For sat nav enter Mires Lane, Everthorpe. This will take you to the top of the lane. Go straight to the bottom - do NOT turn right half way down.


Eight Acre Lake

A large lake with a few sunken objects. 5m platform for training. Things to see include a yacht, fishing coble, speedboat, concrete pipes that you can swim through, Transit Van, caravan and several cars.

Enter the Ellerton Park site and take the first left to get to the car park used by divers.
Enter lake from small pier a few meters from car parking. Either giant stride into water or use steps.

Ellerton is also known as Ellerton Park.

Ellerton

Can't fault the site facilities, but Vis is usually poor and there isn't much to see. You could see all the attractions in a day.

Halfpenny Lane, Eccleston, Nr Chorley, Lancashire, PR7 5PR

Eccleston Delph Quarry is also known as The Delph.

Eccleston Delph Quarry

Dive site situated on the River Lune. Diving is allowed between the two bridges at certain times of year. All divers must contact the local Tourist Information Office in advance.

Preferred entry is the beach just past the second bridge which allows divers to drift under both bridges.

Devil's Bridge is also known as Kirkby Lonsdale.

Devil's Bridge

Good viz mid-week, poor at weekends due to large numbers of divers.

Training platforms, lots of small wrecks and friendly fish.

Artificial "caves" made from shipping containers and a diving bell or two.

Near Carnforth

Capernwray  Quarry

Basic facilities,  24m of depth with 3m, 6m and 20m scaffold shelfs near jump in.  Objects include several vans, cruiser, hydroplane,  several barges, caravan, blockhouse, and a few cars.  Swimming back shallow (6m) on west side usually guarantees an encounter with large pike in clear visibility.  Viz can be poor on entry area but the south end and sides have good viz 6-10m generally.  Can be used for rescue training although the slipway is a series of scaffolded steps and not too easy to navigate (slippy).  Best dived on Thurs or Friday at about 5pm.

South of Tamworth city, near Birmingham

Dosthill Quarry is also known as Dozzi.

Dosthill Quarry

An old quarry, which is floded by a fresh water spring, giving the perfekt place to try out new kit.
Plenty of strange wrecks have been sunk there, including boats, airplanes, helicopters, buses, cars, etc...
There are also some fishes and crayfish in the cove.

A nice day out at an easily dived dive site.

Address: Stoney Cove, Sapcote Rd, Stoney Stanton, Leicester LE9, UK

Park the car, kit up and jump in... There are ladders for getting up.

Stoney Cove

this is a good first time and training dive site Good wall spit out from shore very good night dive

Park in Baliff wood car park and enter the water by crossing road and you are at the Lake side

Bailif wood is also known as Coniston water.

Bailif wood

A well broken up wreck lieing in around 20 metres of water. Known locally as the Collier Wreck. Boilers and Engine block are clearly visible but starting to break down. Soft corals have grown on the wreck and fish can be seen in passing.

By boat from North or South Shields

Ilios is also known as Collier Wreck.

Blue Lagoon

Snorkeling and Scuba Diving at Blue Lagoon