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Alternative Names: None
Type of Dive: Shore dive
Suggested experience: Sport / novice
Travel directions: A92 6 miles South of Stonehaven Google
Parking directions: No problems at the harbour plenty room Google
Distance from Stonehaven: 6 Miles 12 Mins Edinburgh: 112 miles 2 hrs 30 mins
Lat & Long: N56 53.529 W2 12.668
Tides: Tide tables
Site entry/exit: To the harbour side of the big rock, natural sort of gully to follow. Better than swimming out from the pier end.
Underwater directions: As dive map
Site Hazards: Tide as marked, dive and creel boats Tide tables
Nearest Public phone: In the village
Mobile Network service: None at the harbour but mobile at the village "high ground"
Pub: Creel Inn
Created By: Gavin Barnett
Cafe
Air & Nitrox fills: Aberdeen watersports Splash sports
Date: Dec 2008
Revision: 2
Thanks To:
Links: Montrose SAC
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Dive Map:
Dive Report: Dolphins if your lucky, Seals, Lobsters & Crabs in the rock cracks. Wrasse a plenty. Hard pebble stone bottom as beach. Some sand before the tide corner. All in all a nice wee splash. I have dived this solo many times in the summer months. Early morning is my favorite time followed by a can of cold lager......... Get there before the crowds.
Dive Report: Kinnell 17/12/2009 Dived this site many times. The island is further away than you think. I tend to surface swim out if I can be arsed. Plenty to see and the vis is usually quite good. Often see seals if you like that sort of thing (personally I've got better things to do on a dive than be sexually assaulted by an aquatic dog). You can have just as good a dive staying close to shore as long as it's high tide. Low tide I'd be heading out to the island.
Dive Report: Yogi 16/1/11 If you are in the area, it's worth a crack at high tide. But it's a long surface swim for what is really a mediocre dive. I've found it best to surface swim out, then make sure of my bearing and return underwater. It's a long way but just 5 or 6 metres deep so you don't have any safety stops to worry about.
Creel Inn is good, but pricey