Diving from Jurassic Aqua Sport’ s boat, Waverider
How is your diving arranged?
We have an annual planning session and publish a plan of club dives from March to October each year. On Wednesday nights, from April to end of September, we run hard boat dives using local dive boat Scimitar, when our Diving Officer( who is the skipper of Waverider Dive Charter) can have a night off to go diving. Club members pay around £ 25 to £ 35 for a place, depending on the distance travelled to the dive site. Guest divers are most welcome and simply pay a £ 5 surcharge. In 2024, we continued our Wednesday night dives way into October with night dives on at least four dive sites in Portland Harbour. We also arrange weekend dives; on charters, RIBs or from the shores of Chesil Beach and in Weymouth Bay. We venture further afield when members run trips to Porthkerris and West Bay a few times a year.
Oh, and there’ s the Christmas Santa Dive, to be held on 14 December in 2025, to raise money for Weymouth
Diving the cave at Durdle Door
RNLI lifeboat. It began in 2021 and in the past four years, along with the Easter Egg Hunt Dive, it has raised nearly £ 6,000. Jurassic Aqua Sports puts this on, and with only 12 spaces, club members can’ t wait to book on.
Reboarding Waverider
A relaxed ascent
So, what’ s it like diving on the Jurassic coast?
It feels like the diving world is our oyster, centred as we are between Lyme Bay and Weymouth Bay on the Dorset coast. We are hugely blessed with our local diving. It is just superb, there’ s nowhere better for diversity and variety of diving: wrecks, reefs, caves, ledges, cliffs and drop-offs, we have it all.
Shore diving at Chesil Cove
Durdle Door from the waterline
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