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Alternative Names: None
Type of Dive: Shore dive
Suggested Experience:
Travel directions: 4 miles south of Stonehaven along the A92
Parking directions: Parking for crawton is the car park at Crawton farm
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Depth: Max. depth just over 15 m
Tides: Tide tables care must be taken to ensure that the tide will carry you in the correct direction.
Site entry/exit: Make your way down the cliff by the path in front of the houses (careful, it can be slippery!).
Underwater directions: When you get down to the sea level, cross the gully that will be your exit point north and follow the coast north towards the narrow bay where the waterfall is (see pictures below). When you get to the south point of that gully, do a jump entry (make sure you are ready because there is no way out there!), descend and follow the cliff south until you get to the exit gully (which always seems to be further than you think!). Avoid going offshore because you will get caught in the strong current that sweeps the area which, on the other hand, keeps it somewhat clearer than the average east coast site. . Make sure you get out through the gully because there is no other exit point and dive there without a swell because otherwise you will be battered against the rocks on exit. The climb back to the car is not for the faint-hearted but, having said all that, it is a very nice site.
Below the Crawton Nature reserve. There are 2 entry points. One a jump into the very large gully. Only attempt this entry if the tide is going south and will be for some time! The other entry point is at the end of the small path, entering into a 3m wide gully, which descends near vertically to about 25m
Air & Nitrox fills: Aberdeen watersports
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Version: 4
Created by: Gavin and Alejandro
Date: 7/7/07
Thanks To: Grampian divers
Other comments: For the Wreck of the Granero (N56 54.4667 W2 11.3) you follow the second rock finger to find the wreck (see pictures below). This is the the well documented shipwreck of the freighter Granero, which was driven onto the rocks in Crawton Bay in 1933. All of the eighteen crew were rescued, and for three days the Granero was rocked back and forth on the rocks where she foundered, before her back was broken and she sank beneath the seas in Crawton Bay. The Granero was bound from Finland to Grangemouth with a cargo of pit props
Surveying Details
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17 August 1970. There is a report of part of the wreck being taken into custody of Receiver of Wreck at Aberdeen. Part of manganese/brass propeller weighing 1 ton 7cwt was handed in by Messrs Entwistle & Sons (metal) Ltd, Dundee. The wreck was located 1 mile due E of Crawtonness in 13.7 metres of water (this position is is too far out to sea to be 13.7 metres suggest about 0.5 miles due east).
Report via Lloyds dated 7 August 1970 from the Receiver of Wreck, Aberdeen.
The prop off the Granero The second rock finger to find the wreck
The waterfall
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Dive reports : Gary Morrison 8/11/08 More people should dive this site It's a cracking dive. The dive consists of following the wall down along and in and out of various inlets. The wall is teeming with life, there are many horizontal cracks housing a good number of Lobsters, the walls are covered in soft corals and anemomes. Large shoals of saithe, some Large Cod hiding among some of the erratics and some very large Ballin Wrasse. The profusion of life is down to the currents that sweep this site so check currents before entry and stay close to the wall to avoid being pulled out to sea. This is definitely a must do dive....!
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