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A wee video of the dolphin escorts yesterday as they tried their hardest not to let us into Largs Marina 🐬😍 #dolphin #wildlife #video #play #beautiful

No Take Zone Octopus

Check out this cute wee octopus spotted by one of our divers yesterday on a Maerl bed. 😍😍🐙🐙😍😍 Arran Coast Seasearch Scotland #octopus BSoUP Facebook Group #bsoup #sallycharter Sally Charter

Happy international day of the Seal! 🦭🦭🦭 This little cutie gave our divers a beautiful display during one of our Arran trips last year, so amazing to have this kind of interaction on the west coast 😍 Anyone else got any footage we can stamp with our "seal" of approval 🫣😉🦭😅 #InternationalDayOfTheSeal #uwpics #videos

After a great morning yesterday and a good dive on the 40m MTB, the conditions became worse than expected and with an increasing forecast the decision was made to cancel our 2nd dive on the bouncing bombs 😮‍💨💣 Safety of our divers has always been No1 priority, so divers were dropped ashore and it was time to head back to base for shelter. Local Dunoon Diver Chris Mckinlay was passing by and caught our bouncy departure on video. 🌊🎥

There's no dive season here on the west coast but for various reasons, both personal and storm related, we have taken a few weeks off for the first time since Wreckspeditions moved to Dunoon in 2018 😴😴😴 Good for some down time in the holidays with family and friends but.... We are itching to get back on the water as soon as we can, with charters booked in already from the 7th of January and plenty dive training to be done with @dunoon_divers on sites like this one .....the MTB (Motor Torpedo Boat) Wreckage site at Brackley Point, Loch Striven. 🥰 #scubadiving #motortorpedoboat #dogboat #uwphotography #video #divelife

Little cutie chilling out on the shore after it's breakfast yesterday. 🦭😍 We get a lot of locals send us pics and vids as we are trained Marine Mammal Medics with @bdmlr_uk and they are concerned about the Mammal. It's natural to see a pup on the shore itself alone and think it's in trouble or lost but more often than not they are likely digesting their food and looking for a place to shut their eyes in peace 😴😴😴 Why their mum isn't near? After their mother has taken care of them for the first few weeks of their lives, the seals enter their "post weaning stage" and go and explore the oceans And extract from the @cornwallsealgroupresearchtrust puts the next bit about why baby seals "haul out" (come onto dry land) themselves....... "Moulted pups don’t know seal etiquette and will haul out wherever they get tired making them very vulnerable to human disturbance. As their fat reserves are used up from their inefficient feeding skills repeated disturbance may prove fatal and it is a sad fact that 40 to 75% of seals don’t survive to see their second birthday." So please view them from a safe distance and keep dogs away. Let them rest, and the local populations will have more chance of survival and resurgence. 🦭🦭🦭 #seal #sealsofinstagram #beach #donotdisturb

🏝️🤿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ARRAN 2024 ANNOUNCEMENT 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤿🏝️ Dive spaces available for a week of diving on the beautiful Isle of Arran in 2024 🏝️🤿😍 ✅ Dates - 16-21 June 2024 ✅ 5 out of 6 days diving with a day to explore the beauty of Arran including distilleries, the Holy Isle, castles and more 🏰🥃🏝️ 💰Cost - £325 for 5 days diving (£65per day based on 2 dives a day....pretty cheap for expedition stuff) 🌐 How to book - go to www.wreckspeditions.com/book-now and go to the Special Dive Trip section. A deposit is payable now with the balance due 12 weeks before the trip. 🏡 Accommodation - needs sorting by individuals/groups but there are lots of small and large options in Lamlash, Brodick and Whiting Bay, all only a few minutes from the boat. Also a caravan park in Lamlash called Middleton's. 🌬️ Air fills - provided in Lamlash Bay (our departure point) by the team at Arran Coast ❓Anything Else - Arran is stunning, and offers wonderful easy diving. Most of the diving on the itinerary is scenic with some Wreckage elements too. Most sites have an option of shallow depths so good for all experiences. Hope to see yous in the summer!! 🤿😁☀️

Check out this video of skipper Jason diving (yes diving 😁) at Capenwray Diving Center last weekend performing his first Ghost Fishing gear recovery. Ghost Fishing gear related to any fishing equipment like pots, nets etc that have been lost/discarded and are still fishing with no way of recovery. That means all the life trapped in them dies, then fish and other creatures come in to eat the dead meat, they then die and the cycle continues 😟🐟🦀🦞😟 We wanted to do this course to help in bringing more gear from our wrecks and seabed to the surface and save our marine life 🤠 This was day 3 of the course after spending day 1 on fundamental skills and day 2 on survey techniques. Each team has a "Do-er" and assistant and an "over-watch" to keep an eye on things like your gas, any surrounding hazards, and to shine a light on whatever you're doing. 👀🔦 The lifting bag was prepared, after the pot was emptied of all life (simulated) and the Jason came in with his stage attached and started to fill the bag in short bursts, meanwhile checking his team and any hazards above. ⚠️ After the pot was standing on end, time to back fin away.....take a breather.....🆗 With the team, final checks above, then slowly slowly send the pot to the surface 👆🤿🦞🦀👏 Good job!! 😍 The pots (in real life) will then hopefully be returned to their owners, or failing that, any local creel fishermen to use again....or if the pots are not reusable, then all materials are separated for recycling ♻️🛥️ Ghost Fishing UK #bsacdivers Seaskin drysuits #orcatorch AP Diving

Saturday!! What a day 🐬🐬🐬 2 lovely dives on the Akka and Gantocks and these lot were with us the whole way!! 😍🤿📸

What a difference a couple of days make. 😍 Sheffield University Sub-Aqua Club

The gang are back!! 🐬🐬🐬😍😍😍 Heading south past Inverkip to Largs to pickup divers and caught them off my port side. Unexpected joy this morning...wasn't even sure if I'd get out this morning but so glad I did 😍 I think I counted 5 adults and Clyde present HWDT sighting submitted. #dolphin #sighting 😍

The gang are back!! 🐬🐬🐬😍😍😍 Wasn't even sure we'd get out this morning but we've been lucky 😊 Heading south past Inverkip to Largs to pickup divers and caught them off my port side.⬅️ Unexpected joy this morning...wasn't even sure if I'd get out this morning but so glad I did 😍 I think I counted 5 adults and young Clyde present! HWDT sighting submitted. It's gonna be a good day!!!

Check out one of our divers... Giving cuddles to a curious seal... While sitting on the seabed... With his fins 😀 South of the Holy Isle during our Arran trip with Aberdeen Sub Aqua Club BSAC 67 It's just cracking footage......we love it! 😍🦭😍🦭😍

Unedited footage from.our final dolphin escort of the Summer Arran trip. 🐬🐬🐬 They were in a playful mood, working off the heavy feeding they were doing earlier no doubt 🐬🐟😋 #dolphin #wildaboutargyll #wildlife #video #sea #cetacean

Harbour Seal at Campbeltown came to say hello on our way out to our last site today....was very playful and curious..... but think it possibly thought our diver had a fish in his hand when it went for a wee nibble 😲🦭✋ #seal #playing #closecall #instagram #video #wildlife @matthewpfirth @lau.baker @dunoon_divers

A wonderful encounter by the same dolphin pod we saw yesterday, but this time at Pladda Island where they were clearly feeding 🐬😋🐟 We have so many videos will have to crop and create reel tomorrow. Just love it 😍😍😍

We had a surprise visit from our local dolphin pod yesterday as we came back into the Holy Loch 🥰🐬 Always amazing to see them and this time (not best footage) but they were certainly on the hunt, flipping fish I to the air and chasing them into extremely shallow waters.... It was quite exhilarating to watch 😀

A superb capture from @happy_as_a_fish of this free swimming conger eel during her dive on the beautiful Avrella wreck in Loch Goil today. This little fella, well...6ft long fella, was out on the hunt and seemed very at ease when the 3 divers spotted it along the side of the ship. Good Viz in the Goil today with 6-8m Viz on both dives. Dark conditions on the wreck with little ambient light on a wet but wonderful day of diving in the Clyde 🤙🤿

Great Saturday out on the Clyde today. 🤿 Inverkip Power Station Jetty has been disused for years and now provides a great marine environment for the multitude of soft corals, anemones, sea squirts, crabs, starfish and more that live on the pier legs and scattering the seabed 🌟🦀🐟 The plankton is still well and truly here with a max of 3m Viz but divers still enjoyed it. Heading for Loch Goil tomorrow, hoping for some clearer waters. 😃 Always somewhere to dive in the Clyde all year round if you're into scenic or wreck diving. Dive groups up to 8 currently. Rhib with rigid ladder and hot drinks 🍫🪜🛥️ wreckspeditions.com 07593088816