Scuba 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