Alternative Names: Kylesku south Ferry Slip
Type of Dive: Kylesku is a great shore dive and wall in Loch Gleann Dubh
Suggested experience: Experienced diver
Travel directions: Google
Parking directions: At the top of the slip at the booking office/hut Google
Distance from Inverness: 83 Miles 1 Hr 50 Min's
Lat & Long: N58.257595 W-5.018204 Postcode IV27 4HW Google
Tides: Tide tables This is a slack water dive and care must be taken not to stay too long as getting out can be a hard swim.
Depth: 40m
Site entry/exit: Enter and exit the water at the end of the slip...
Underwater directions: Dive to the left of the slip facing the sea, keep the wall on your left shoulder on the way out and on the right on the way back. The bottom of the wall is on 40m so if you a depth junky do it at the start of the dive.
Air & Nitrox: None close (see dive map)
Site Hazards: Depth and currents. A large amount a water passes through this point so the viz is usually very good but don't get slack water wrong.
Nearest Public phone: In the Hotel
Mobile Network service: Contact me
Accommodation: Inchnadamph Lodge The lazy crofter bunkhouse Kylesku Hotel
Other comments: Best dived on just before high slack as the exit is easier. .You can also dive the Kylesku narrows not far from here.
Pub: Kylesku Hotel
Cafe: Kylesku Hotel
Created By: John Nicolson
Date: 2/1/11
Revision: 2
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Underwater Photos: By Mike dive Utube Utube
Dive Map: Not Reqd
Dive Report: McBad 23/1/11 Lovely site; fall off the nice easy concrete ferry slip (care, it can be very slippery with weed) and paddle across the shallow area in front of the hotel before descending at the rocky outcrop on the corner, or perhaps go a bit beyond the corner before descending. From here you slide down a spectacular wall covered in huge sun stars, brittle stars and every other sort of life. Apparently, it bottoms out to mud with sea pens at approx 40m; I've not been there. If you work your way back towards the slip as you ascend you may find several old car wrecks; the locals used to push their unwanted cars off the ferry, back before the days of the bridge. Toilets on site and a good pub with a nice place to sit outside after the dive.
Dive Report: Mikey b 8/10/11 Had a lovely dive off the slipway by the hotel, low water and the tide started flooding halfway through the dive so I stuck close to the rocks etc. The rock faces were covered with Featherstars and some nice Strawberry Anemones, and viz was very good around 10m or so, maybe more. Explored the wrecked cars at 20m which have broken up dramatically since my last dive here a year ago. Lots of huge Ballan Wrasse sheltering around the wreckage, and the mother of all lobsters living in the rear wheel arch of a MK3 Escort (probably the same lobster I caught under the same wheel arch last year then put back). There were masses of Pollack as well, and loads of smaller fish darting about. Lovely dive!
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