Where do we start to tell you about the fantastic diving in the area? There are so many fantastic dive sites that its hard to mention them all, but here's just a taste:

Aughinish Drift Dive:

This is an unbelievable dive, and even well hardened salty old divers come up going "wow"! With a current of up to 9 knots, superb visibility and a depth of only 9m, you can just relax, enjoy yourself and fly!

The dive site has a beautiful topography with everything from low lying reefs, strewn shell bottom and large kelp stalks. The pace of the drift varies depending on where the 2 sides of land come close together. Land is no more the 50 meters away on either side, during most points of the drift dive. The site is in a natural Burren setting with New Quay on one side and Aughinish Island on the other. The general visibility is minimum 10M. We dive the site as a rule on a filling mid tide. The reason it makes such a great drift is due to the fact that at the eastern end of the drift you eventually meet land. Shore is close by on either side and on a filling tide you will eventually meet land!

The site has an abundance of life, from Wrasse, Pollock, Mackerel, Giant Spider crabs, edible crabs, velvet swimming crabs including hermits. If crabs are your thing then Aughinish drift is the dive for you. They even hitch a ride from one end of the drift to the other!

Aughinish Shoal:

This site consists of a reef running for approximately 2 miles (NW), starting about a half a mile from the Aughinish cliffs, the life on this reef has to be seen to be believed and since it runs so far there are many different dives to be enjoyed and this still leaves plenty more to explore. The average depth 18-20m.

Descending down the decent line will bring you to a depth of about 15m with the reef falling away to 20m. This is a vertical drop and as a result presents you with lots of over hangs and little gullys as breaks in the reef appear now and again. The reef is covered in beautiful sponges with a large array of crustaceans.

If you love fish life and photography, then this has to be the most spectacular fish life dive in Ireland. Everything from large Wrasse(Full family), Large Ling, Big Pollock, Bib, Gobys, Blennys, Lobster, Squat Lobster, Conger, Trigger fish! to name but a few....... Paradise.

Rebel Reef:

So called after two divers from the Rebel County, Cork, who were the first to dive it with Ronan (Len & Denis). Similar to the Aughinish Shoal, it is a reef that runs for about half a km and in a depth of 30-32m. It sits out 1 mile off Black Head and is an amazing dive.

It has the appearance of being a flat sculptured overhang which is only 1.5 - 2m high with a sand/mud bottom. The life consists of lobster and conger every meter or so as you travel along! There is a ridiculous quantity of fish life present and the colours are amazing. Narcosis also helps bring up the colours and quantity of fish life!!

The only draw back/restriction to diving the site is the Westerly swell. If the preceeding days have been messy it can be an uncomfortable journey from Ballyvaughan Pier, but general journey time will take 15-20 mins. It is recomended to dive on high or low slack, espically avoid mid springs unless you are happy to drift dive it.

Illaunloo Rocks:

Well this site has it all. It is 8 minutes travel time from Ballyvaughan Pier and is the most perfect 2nd dive of the day or extraordinary training dive. I would dive this site anytime due to its abundance of life and amazing overhangs. The site is a reef sitting just above the waterline on high spring tide. It is 13-14m deep on the north tip and has a series of fantastic overhangs. Some of them are so deep that you can easily fit a diver all the way in and still back out safely.

Lots of beautiful sponges, big pollock, big wrasse, lots of shell fish with a flat bottom contour covered by broken coral! The best part of the dive is on the north eastern side...bring your camera.

There are a series of other beautiful broken reefs in the bay which we dive regularly and of course an assortment of dive sites around by Black Head travelling down to Doolin and the Cliffs of Moher.