Creagan Inn

 

Alternative Names:     Loch Creran, Creagan Inn Site       

 

Type of Dive:                      

 

Suggested Experience:   Trainees onwards…

 

Travel directions:  From South, head for Oban, continue North on A828, turn right at Connel to *go over the bridge, keep going to the roundabout at Creran Bridge, over the bridge then first exit at the roundabout on the other side, slow down as you immediately approach the right hand bend, you are turning off into the gravel car park here.
From the East, follow the A85 to Connel, then as above…*  

          

 

Parking directions:  Park on the old cut-off road, not the pub Car Park         

 

Lat & Long:  N 56* 32.935’ W 005* 17.916’

 

Depth:  14m

 

Tides:                     

 

Site entry/exit:    Grassy/gravel slope, see pics

                

 

Underwater directions:   Simply follow the rocks and Wall to the right at the foot of the Quay. At High Water, swim thro the weed and drop to the reef on the right.

 

Air & Nitrox fills:                

Site Hazards:    Ebb Tide, there is quite a fierce ebb current at certain times which can take you out to the middle of the loch. If there is a big current, stay close to the bottom on your return to entry site.                 

Nearest Public phone:   At the Creagan Inn when it opens later this summer, (2008)   

 

Mobile Network service: O2

 

Pub:     Creagan Inn (should be open this summer, 2008)                                  

 

Café:                                     

                      

Version:    1                          

 

Created by:   Dive Tramp

                      

Date:  2008-01-22

 

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Other comments:   Sandy/fine gravel bottom, solid rock wall/reef. Occ Wrasse, Pollack, Juvenile flatties, sea pens, stars, sunstars, brittlestars, crabs of all kinds, whelks, anenomes, worms, burrowing anemones, occ scallops, Oh, and Seamouse!

                                  

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Divesite map:   Not yet, its an easy site    

 

 

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