England

Devon

United Kingdom

14,000 ton Battleship, lost 29th May 1906 in Fog.
Much scattered & broken up, but armour plate still to be found



HMS Montague

Shallow but interesting fringing rocks leading to sand. Take care near the rock off Rat Island as tidal currents accelerate rapidly here.



Landing Bay area is also known as Lundy Pier.

Landing Bay area

The seabed near to the shore off surf point is of rock outcrops in sand. The wreck of the 'Carmine Filomena' lies below surf point here and is mainly a pile of plates with some ribs and overhanging surfaces. Good for nudibranch spotting.

Lundy Island

Carmine Filomena

Rugged granite bedrock with gullies, canyons and cliffs which are particularly well developed off the northern side of Jenny's Cove.

Lundy Island

Battery Point

These are two pinnacles, the tops of which are exposed during low water. The pinnacles are covered with life, from the kelp canopy at the top down to the burrowing anemones on the silty bottom. 

Lundy Island

Knoll Pins

Dive about 50m offshore of Frenchmen's Landing (the north side) and continue east for cliffs and rock slopes (similar topography to the intertidal area).



Brazen Ward

The Robert sank in 1975 and now lies intact on its starboard side. It is best dived at low water slack, but this wreck is diveable on nearly all of the flood tide. There is a strong current on ebb tide, especially during spring tides. Depths of 22m to the bottom at low tide, 28m at high. A good sized wreck for one dive. Excellent dive worth making the effort, vis usually good.

The quality of marine life on this wreck is outstanding. A torch is recommended for close inspection into the hull where you may see the odd lobster.

Lundy Island. You will need an echo sounder and GPS to find the wreck as there are no surface markers.

MV Robert

The north side is a boulder tumble extending to a mud plain at about 14m bcd. The large boulders form caves studded with corals. Wrasse are particularly abundant here.

Between Gannet's Bay and Brazen Ward. A bedrock and boulder slope adjacent to the shore leading to a muddy plain but with rock outcrops at about 20m bcd as Brazen Ward is approached.

Also it's a GREAT dive if you like to have the Seals play with you. 



Gannet's Bay

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.

Gannet's Rock

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.

HMS Montague

Snorkeling and Scuba Diving at HMS Montague