Alternative Names:    Fron slate quarry

Type of Dive:      Quarry dive

Suggested experience:  Qualified to 40m in cold water.

Travel directions:    Sign posted Fron and Rhostryfan   Google  The last part is a track and you will need a good ground clearance or a 4x4 to get up it. Don't even think of coming here in a normal car.

Parking directions:   Near the end of the track is a hill and park just over the hill.

Distance from Birmingham:       139 Miles   3hrs

Lat & Long:     N 53 4.410 W 4 13.440    Google

Depth:    38m

Site entry/exit:   You have to scramble down a slippy rocky path, a rope is a good idea for this as it is very steep.

Underwater directions:  Its a small quarry so just explore and surface fin back to the entry point when you have finished your dive. Its a beter dive in the winter when the viz is beter and the path is not wet.

Site Hazards:    Access, Cold, altitude, dive,

Nearest Public phone:    To Follow

Accommodation:     None local to here.

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Other comments:     There are old cars and debris and a blue Buoy at the hut 22m. The best vis normally in the Winter / early Spring. This quarry is at an altitude of 320m so this dive should be treated as an altitude dive.

Pub:    To Follow

Created by:    Finstrokes

Cafe:  To Follow

Air & Nitrox fills:    Vivian diving centre

Date:     27/12/10

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