Catterline Island

Alternative Names:   None 

Type of Dive:     Shore dive                  

Suggested experience:    Sport / novice

Travel directions:   A92 6 miles South of Stonehaven           

Parking directions: No problems at the harbour plenty room

Lat & Long: N56 53.529 W2 12.668

Site entry/exit:  To the harbour side of the big rock, natural sort of gully to follow. Better than swiming out from the pier end. 

Underwater directions: As 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 "good food & beer  

Created by: Gavin Barnett                              

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Air & Nitrox fills:      Aberdeen Watersports      Splash Sports Dundee           

Revision:      1                       

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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.

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