information required on diving cornwall

[atty]

I am looking for any general information on caravan sites near penzance which are near to a air filling station/dive shop, and slipways nearby , possibly some reccomended dive sites
cheers
phill

[Alex Coomes]

I am looking for any general information on caravan sites near penzance which are near to a air filling station/dive shop, and slipways nearby , possibly some reccomended dive sites
cheers
phill
I have dived with Porthkerris Divers. Have had two very good trips there. They are well organised and have both Ribs and a hardboat Cat (VV fast and comfortable) You are very near the Manacles which is fantastic fro Flora and forna - amazing amounts of life worth a visit just to see the anemones! Lots of wrecks as well from 15m down to deep teckky depths Try their website <a href="http://www.porthkerris.com/centre.htm" >http://www.porthkerris.com/centre.htm</a>
Hope this is of use

Rgds

Alex

[angiemac]

Personally I wouldn't use Porthkerris Divers. We had a really bad trip with them last year. Dive boat unavailable on the first day, but skipper admitted he was out with another party. Poor pick-up scheduling so that we had to offload kit by rib, and wade ashore in drykit (we weren't even told until we'd all packed our suits away). Most of the dive sites must have been off the list of worst ones in Cornwall with the exception of the Heliops. They wouldn't even take us to the anacles even though the weather was good enough. And to cap it all the drinks provided came from a luke warm flask and lunch was crap.

Apart from these minor hassles it was OK, not good, but OK.

Angie

[atty]

Personally I wouldn't use Porthkerris Divers. We had a really bad trip with them last year. Dive boat unavailable on the first day, but skipper admitted he was out with another party. Poor pick-up scheduling so that we had to offload kit by rib, and wade ashore in drykit (we weren't even told until we'd all packed our suits away). Most of the dive sites must have been off the list of worst ones in Cornwall with the exception of the Heliops. They wouldn't even take us to the anacles even though the weather was good enough. And to cap it all the drinks provided came from a luke warm flask and lunch was crap.


should have mentioned i am taking a rib with me ideally looking at the penzance area, cheers for the feedback recieved so far
Phill
Apart from these minor hassles it was OK, not good, but OK.

Angie

[Mark Powell]

I am looking for any general information on caravan sites near penzance which are near to a air filling station/dive shop, and slipways nearby , possibly some reccomended dive sites
cheers
phill

Try Trevair Touring Site, details below. It's diver friendly and Phil the owner has a compressor on site and can pump air, nitrox and trimix.

The site is about 3 miles from Marazion and you can launch a RIB on the beach at Marazion or there is a slip in Penzance which is only a few miles further. Underwater Adventures is a reasonable dive shop and is also in Marazion.

We have been going there for over 10 years.

As for dives there is plenty of choice in Mounts Bay.
- Primrose 18m
- Alice Marie 24m
- Warspite 8m
- Hellopes 38m
- Phoenix unit 56m
- Mystique 33m
- Bucks Reef 0-50m

Further afield you have the Runnell Stone or Longships.

South Treveneague
St Hilary
Goldsithney
Penzance
Cornwall
TR20 9BY
Tel: 01736 740647

[angus]

I have dived with Porthkerris Divers. Have had two very good trips there. They are well organised and have both Ribs and a hardboat Cat (VV fast and comfortable) :=Rgds

Alex

Alex,

If you think that their heap of a Cat is comfortable you wanna try a decent hardboat. I don't call plastic park benches that tip & roll with the sea, a heads (toilet) door that won't shut and MFI kitchen units comfortable held together with gaffer tape. I'm more than willing to rough it but not when I'm paying the rates that they charge.

The luke warm tea served from flasks with tinfoil as a stopper says it all to me - a hard boat that can't serve a decent cup of tea is worse than a rib!!!

Take a trip on boats such as Autumn Dream out of Weymouth or Taurus out of Dover and you see what a comfortable hardboat is.

Angus

[Andy Nye]

:=Take a trip on boats such as Autumn Dream out of Weymouth or Taurus out of Dover and you see what a comfortable hardboat is.
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:=Angus


Cheers Angus, ;-)

[terryh]

:=
:=:=Take a trip on boats such as Autumn Dream out of Weymouth or Taurus out of Dover and you see what a comfortable hardboat is.
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:=:=Angus
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Maybe we ought to get the Mystery Diver to go round sampling
the tea on dive boats.

In my book.
Evens are - Dave Wendes (White Spirit) and Phil Corben (Tango).
With an honorable mention for Pete Street (Trojan).

Tea to avoid? Without mentioning names a certain blue chug,
chug out of Swanage.

Yes I know, I'm obviously bored.

TerryH

[Alex Coomes]

I have dived out of Weymouth on our W (Woody the Skipper)A different experience I agree, the language tends to be more direct from Woody i.e "You f***ing c**ts get on the boat!!! - it adds to the charm in my view.
I dived the Cornish Cat before they fitted the MFI cupboards so don't know what they look like. As we were out on a sunny calm day I can't comment on the ride in rougher weather but it was vv fast.
The Soup we had was v hot and diving fantastic you obviously did not have a good day with Porthkerris!