● For Chesil Beach diving Check out Shore Diving
● Check Recreational Harbour Dives for Portland Harbour wrecks information

Portland is the most popular South Cost destination for diving and snorkelling activities. The sheltered part of the 18 mile Chesil Beach offers tremendous shore scuba and skin diving opportunities for visitors while a fleet of dedicated dive boats operating out of Castletown provide for shuttles and day charters to harbour or offshore wrecks, drift and night dive sites at varying depths.

Protected by its great walls against even the strongest winds, Portland Harbour, with its sheltered wreck sites, is all that a diver needs when the inevitable gales rise from the South and West. 

Its popularity for diving and snorkelling comes from the rich variety of sea life to be found here with many interesting dive sites and wrecks accessible even from shore.

Quick and easy access to most of Dorset's offshore wrecks by dive boats and its close proximity to London and the surrounding counties makes Portland a unique diving location.

Portland also has the advantage of having all diving facilities in one location. Castletown hosts a variety of boat and shore dive operators and centres, training facilities. The Breakwater Diving Centre situated at Aqua Hotel, sponsors of this web site,  offers all services from boats to air and gas fills, showers, storage and rinsing facilities, accommodation and cafe to visiting divers while Underwater Explorers, just across the street, provides for cutting edge PADI, TDI and SDI training and equipment.  

● Visit  www.divedorset.com for more diving and dive sites information