Matzen Marine Services, East Cowes, Isle of Wight

Diving off the West WightScuba diving off the Isle of Wight

Wreck diving to the West of the Island

"Rumbo" is equipped to carry 10 divers and 2 crew.  2 Dives £45. min numbers apply.
There are many wreck sites for divers to enjoy, including casualties of U-Boats during the I & II World War along with U-Boats themselves.
 
Divers are picked up from Yarmouth Harbour for dive sites out through The Needles to the West of the Island.

Dives include: Venezuela 28mtrs Merchant Steamship 1918
  Fenner 23mtrs Sailing Cargo ship 1881
  Borgny 30mtrs Merchant Steamship 1918
  Albion II 29mtrs Admiralty Trawler 1916
  War Knight 15mtrs Merchant Steamship 1918
  Witte Zee 32mtrs Ocean Going Tug 1964
  HMS Warwick Deeping 36mtrs Submarine Chaser 1943
  Westerville 36mtrs Merchant Steamship 1917
  Molina 33mtrs Norwegian Steamer 1918

Drift dives along the back of the Island between Brook and Chale are always interesting. The wreck of the War Knight lies in 15mtrs close inshore near Freshwater Bay.
 
The ‘Margaret Smith’ a 300 ton gravel dredger that sank in1978 lies in 16mts just off Yarmouth and can be a satisfying dive when conditions elsewhere are not so good, or for an evening dive.
 
Alum Bay is virtually non tidal, an ideal area for training at 12mtrs max.

Wreck Diving to the East of the Island

Diving to the East is out of Sandown, picking up at Yaverland.
Mostly two wreck dives are the norm in this area, the second being the large wreck site of the Luis in 17mtrs a steamship 380ft by 53ft, she was torpedoed in 1918.

Dives include: HMS P12 (stern)  22mtrs Naval Patrol 1918
  Camswan 18mtrs Merchant Steamship 1917
  HMS Boxer 20mtrs Destroyer 1918
  U1195 30mtrs Uboat 1945
  Camberwell 30mtrs Merchant Steamship 1917
  Kurland 35mtrs Armed Merchant Steamship 1917
  Leon 35mrts Armed Merchant Steamship 1918
  Highland Brigade 27mtrs Merchant Steamship 1918

An ideal reference book for diving the area is:
A Divers Guide, Dive Wight and Hampshire
By Martin Pritchard & Kendall McDonald.
ISBN 0-946020=30-2  at £14.95

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