Scuba Diving Donegal Ireland

Malinbeg Harbour is a natural inlet where we keep our dive boat. It is a beautifull shore dive with crystal clear water,lots of life and sheltered in most weather. The stack in the middle is an interesting habitate for a wide variety of North Atlantic life, from octopus to eel to shrimp to wrasse.
It makes a world class night dive, easy access and control and teeming with life.

Small Bay at the entrance to Malinbeg Harbour is a beautiful 18 metre dive over white sand with large rocky outcrops. The light here is excelent for photography. The dive leads back to a shallow cave at the back of the bay crossing a hollow which is a spawning ground for a variety of fish in the spring and early summer. This is a very good site for introductory boat dives.

Shark Rock is a covering rock at the entrance to the harbour which offers beautiful dives through two rocky gullies.. Entering the water just to the North of the rock and droping down into a large bowl, which because it is sheltered is always full of fish, you swim SW into the corner which looks dark but opens out to an exciting overhanging swim thru' at 20 metres. Passing through this you swim East rising up to the 14 metre line and following the rock round, you come into a 2 metre wide gully heading North. There is always a selection of Lobster and Cray in the holes in the rock walls. (look don't touch). You can finish out the dive by swimming North and entering Small Bay.

Gloster Rocks offer several dives. Enter the water to the East of the rocks and swim through the gap between the rocks and then turn either North or South and follow the rocks. Or again entering to the East swim south into deeper water (up to 35 metres).

Candles Rock is an excellent dive where you can swim right round the rock or head SW into deep water (40 metres). Inside (NE) the rock is 8 - 14 metres and offers lots of broken rock. Leading away to the NW is a ledge at 18 - 20 metres.

Bullock Rock (Thor Lee Bullig) is a submeged rock which breaks in a heavy swell. The top is about 4 metres and the bottom is about 27 metres with shear drops and deep cuts in the rock. The inside (North) side is the most interesting but it is just possible to swim all round it. Excellent life & colour.

The Cliffs at Slieve League are the tallest sea cliff in Europe with a height of 595 metres they tower above some of the most beautiful dive sites in Ireland. From Carrigan Head to Silver Strand is a distance of about 8km (5 mile). Dives range from drop offs to shallow reefs to small coves to caves big enough to take the boat into. For the non-diver there is a very good viewing point from the car park on Carrigan Head.

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