Local Diving

Dive Type:- Shore

Depth:- 6-8m

Best Dived at:- High Tide

Bognor Rocks is a reef that curves out from the beach, West of Bognor Pier. Best dived around High Water to ensure a reasonable depth, the reef is well potted and care should be taken to avoid entanglement. Marine life is typically plentiful and comprises of Crabs, Lobsters, Blennies, Nudibranchs.

Having now dived this site i found it lovely, although I'm not totally convinced as to the best time to dive. For depth its best to dive this site at high tide, on the down side i did experience a medium strength current and had to compensate by starting the dive swimming into the current. If you wanted to trade the depth for an easier dive then 4hr before the high tide would be the slack window on this site.

I am going to be using this as a training site during the summer months as the sandy bottom is ideal for skills followed by the rocks as the guided portion of the dive ………. Ideal.

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Dive Type:- Boat

Depth:- 10m

Best Dived at:- Slack Tide
Slack water is 4 hours before high water, 3 hours after high water at Portsmouth

Dive Sussex lists the Far Mulberry as without doubt one of the best dives along the whole Sussex coast for those who want to see fish.
Constructed of various concrete caissons and pontoons, the Mulberrys were the innovation that made the Normandy campaign following the D-Day landings possible. At only 10m to the seabed and rising to within a metre or two of the surface, it provides an ideal depth to potter about following a first dive on one of the deeper Channel wrecks.

Dive Type:- Boat

Depth:- 28m

Best Dived at:- Neap Tide

The Mixon Hole lies at the Eastern end of the Looe Channel that connects the Solent to the Eastern Channel.
The currents through here can be significant so it is recommended that this site is only dived on Neap tides. The Cardinal Marker is in 5-6m of water. A short swim South East brings you to the cliff edge - this shallow area on top has luxuriant marine growth and life. The blue clay cliff drops vertically to a gravel bottom - there are occasional crabs and lobsters where boulders are dotted into the clay. Spherical balls (rumoured to be from Roman catapults) dot one area of the bottom which is usually a good place to see Cat-Sharks, Smoothhounds and Rays.

Dive Type:- Shore

Depth:- 6m

Best Dived at:- Slack Tide
Slack water is 4 hours before high water, 3 hours after high water Portsmouth

Although the much loved Lifeboat Boathouse and the historical remains of the previous Boathouse have now been removed, this is still an area of abundant sea life and objects of interest including a landing craft and a mini reef. The area can be teaming with shoals of breeding fish, bib, wrasse, gobies, shore, spider and hermit crabs, lobsters, cuttlefish, pipefish, small congers, oysters, mussels and anemones. However worthy of note is that since the Medmerry Beach alterations the visibility has been a little variable.