Blae rock
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Type:    A Plateau the size of a football field rises straight up from more than 70m to within 7m of the surface and is easily picked up on the sounder

 

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Dive Information: Blae Rock is one of the best Scenic dive sites in the Forth. Depths range from 7m on the plateau which has the largest Anenomes you will ever see, to 70m on the wall. This site also has a large selection of soft corals, It is best dived on neap tide - slack water .Visibility is normally 3m to 7m with 10m plus in summer months. If you miss slack water it makes an amazing drift dive.

 

Harbour / slip: Port Edgar easy slip only dries on LW Springs,(South Queensferry), Granton On the Fife side and Burntisland swimmng pool slip very narrow and steep. Free slip next to swimming pool near the dive bunker.

 

Parking directions:  At the harbours.          

                                   

Distance from harbour:   Port Edgar 20min and Granton 10min   Burntisland 10min

 

Lat & Long:    56.04857N     -3.18661W     Directly north of Edinburgh

 

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Depth:  7-70m

 

Tides:  Tide Tables

 

Diveboat: North Star 

 

Diveshop:   Splash Sports Dundee     Aquastars

 

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Suggested experience: Sport diver               

 

Other comments:  It's a massive obstruction to the flow of the tide. It is therefore a slackwater dive. Care should be taken diving on a flooding springs there are stories of down currents at the wall. The best vis dive on neaps when there has been no easterlies.

 

Pub:    Hawes Inn South Queensferry                                  

 

Created by:    Finstrokes         

 

Date:     7/7/07                              

 

Thanks To:   Stevie and Themacallan for dive info.                       

 

Underwater photos:    To Follow

 

 

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Dive Report: Alexmacennan, May 07, 10 min rib ride from Burntisland. A bit further east than the Campania. Very silty when we dived it but a colourful top at 12/14m and colourful west wall which is deeper than 30m straight down. Got to 30m didn't see the undercut but might have been on the wrong place on the west wall.