Scotland can offer some of the best diving in the UK. Because Scotland's coast (coasts?) is so varied, with innumerable Sea Lochs, we have no shortage of places to dive. During the long summer nights Peeblesshire Sub-Aqua Club often dive at Dunbar which is about 20 miles from Edinburgh. Typical marine life for Dunbar includes Lobster, Conger eels, Cod, Octopus, Squid, Seals and various species of fish, like the beautifully coloured Cuckoo Wrasse, which has a bright red head with a brilliant blue body.

We also dive at St Abbs that must rate as one of the best sites in Europe. Here you will find Lobsters that are big enough to strap a saddle on (A small saddle granted, but the Lobsters are huge). There is also a very friendly Wolfish that is tame towards divers and will even feed from your hand. All this life is present because St Abbs is the only marine reserve in the UK and one of the rules is that divers should take nothing and leave only bubbles.

Further down the road we have Eyemouth which has some stunning cliff faces, which are covered in soft corals, sponges and amazing marine life. It is also possible to charter a boat from North Berwick, St Abbs or Eyemouth and dive on the many numerous wrecks or islands in the Forth. Sites like the Bass Rock and the Isle of May are all within reach of these East Coast ports. This can lead to different types of diving, are you interested in the scenery or marine life, or do you wish to find out more about the numerous wrecks in the area. And if the waves get too big in the sea we can even dive in St Mary's Loch.

During the winter the hardier members of the branch (or the dafter ones) make their way over to the West Coast where we find some of the most spectacular scenery above the water as well as below. The marine life here is different than that of the East Coast. The islands also offer superb diving with St Kilda being possibly the best in the world, here you will find submarine cliffs and arches with the cliff faces covered in soft corals. The Solway Coast tends to be very sandy but there are a number of shipwrecks to see.

If you progress into wreck diving you may go to Scapa Flow in Orkney and dive on the 7 remaining wrecks of the German Grand Fleet which were scuttled by their crews on the 21^st of June 1919, as well as the many other wrecks which are scattered all around Scotland's Coasts

Peeblesshire Sub-Aqua Club organise regular trips away for long weekends or just a day. In the past we have been to Skye, Orkney, Farne Islands, The Clyde, Oban, Bass Rock, Sound of Mull, Lanzarote and the Red Sea. Future trips will hopefully include The Great Barrier Reef, Orkney and St Kilda.