Diving western Ireland (Eire)

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Tony Howard - 09 Jul 2005 20:45 GMT

My wife & I will be visiting the west coast of Southern Ireland in May next
year, as that co-incides with our tenth anniversary where we spent our
honeymoon touring Ireland from Rosslaire to Donnegal on a pair of
motorcycles. At that time my missus was not a dive (she did not even know
that I was), since then we've spent the last 8 years diving the UK & abroad.

This time we are going in our (recently bought) motorhome, with the dive
gear, so we're looking for recommendations of diving locations and dive
centres.

We want a dive centre that offers Nitrox and possibly Tri-Mix, has a good
boat (and skipper) and plenty of decent sites including wrecks as well as
some good photo opportunities.

TIA

Tony Howard

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Gat'rBait - 10 Jul 2005 02:32 GMT

Loc Ness

Gat'r

> My wife & I will be visiting the west coast of Southern Ireland in May
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dave - 11 Jul 2005 11:43 GMT

> My wife & I will be visiting the west coast of Southern Ireland in May next
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> Tony Howard

jerry and rianne at aquaventures in baltimore. get to do the kowloon bridge,
various other wrecks, fastnet rock and the U260. pretty certain they do
trimix, deffo do nitrox though. diving when we were there 5 years ago was
from a large, fast rib. jerry skippers the boat and is hugely knowledgeable
on the wreck locations - to the point where he'd put the pick within 1m of
the centre of one of the 3m dia boilers on the alondra "it's close to the
boiler" jerry would announce.

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Diverman - 12 Jul 2005 18:14 GMT

Jerry in Baltimore runs a very good show, I'd highly recommend him. Kowloon
is a great dive as is the U260.

Scubadive west in Killary harbour in Galway are worth a look. Best diving
with them is out at the Islands. Turk, boffin and Clare.

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Diverman

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seamunki - 11 Jul 2005 13:45 GMT

www.scubadivewest.com

i think the guys here do nitrox.

www.mevaghdiving.com

these guys do trimix, last time i was there they shut up shop on a
saturday afternoon to go diving!-go figure...

www.scubadiveireland.com

hope this helps,

Pat

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Euge - 12 Jul 2005 11:08 GMT

You could try www.scubaireland.com. It's the official site for the Irish
Underwater Council. Plenty of links to some dive centres and wreck sites.
Hope it helps.
Euge.

> My wife & I will be visiting the west coast of Southern Ireland in May
> next year, as that co-incides with our tenth anniversary where we spent
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Ka:-) - 12 Jul 2005 17:05 GMT

>> My wife & I will be visiting the west coast of Southern Ireland in May
>> next year, as that co-incides with our tenth anniversary where we spent
>> our honeymoon touring Ireland from Rosslaire to Donnegal on a pair of
>> motorcycles. At that time my missus was not a dive (she did not even
>> know that I was), since then we've spent the last 8 years diving the UK &
>> abroad.

Hi Tony

We are in Donegal - try www.diveology.ie
Scuba Dive West good in Galway - www.scubadivewest.com
And the local CFT clubs can accommodate you too try www.scubaireland.com

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