<font color='#0000FF'>Dan ,
Didn't you get the LONG PM I sent you after you asked me last week or so ?
SANDGATE
2 places to do good shore dives.
Site 1. Park in the car park next to the LITTLE CHEF, SLACK is at HIGH WATER ( Dover ). 60 mts offshore is a reef made from a lot of the rock armour for the new pipe leading inshore for the sewage system. ( Don't worry , ya won't get covered in sh**. Lots of crabs and little lobby's and swarming with fish. Seabed is sand up to the reef.
Site 2. Park in car park next to the rowing club. about 6 steps and ya on the beach. Same as SITE 1. but slightly deeper 15 mts MAX .
OLD FOLKESTONE PIER
Go on to the sea front, park in the furthest car park , where they hold the Sunday market ( next to the FUNFAIR ). SLACK HERE is HIGH WATER ( Dover ). Deepest i ever had was 9 mts , but if you find the old remains of the peir, you can find OLD token for the slot machines dating from 1915
parts of all the old seats etc etc .
WESTERN WALL ( Dover harbour )
Here is good diving along the wall ( DO NOT GO PAST THE FIRST SET OF STEPS ) as the current starts here and will have you in the entrance in a matter of minutes, and it's a 7 knotter . crabs / lobbies in the cracks of the wall. Also a little bit of a reef with the remains of a fishing boat.
You REALLY NEED shore cover here, as you must inform PORT CONTROL on VHF channel 74 0r ring them 01304 ******* I'll port thier direct line number to you .
I have dived here most states of the tide , BUT high water is better as it's a long slooping pebble beach & the waterline is about 250 mts from where you park ya car
You can always ring me if you want a dive here, and if i'm free , I WILL always come round and act as shore cover for you , even i don't mind sat on the beach or i'll use the boat .
St MARGARETS BAY
High water ( Dover ) is the best time i have found. Dive by the sign saying " telegraph cable ". follow this for about 50 mts , then go S/W by 5 mts , and you be on a wreck site , you will see the iron keel and ribs .
VIZ here can be very good , if no rain in the past week, as the water gets very milky from the chalk.
DEAL
High water Dover or 5 hours after .
A good place is right in front of the castle , 50 mts swim to a reef , which is visable by the wavelets created by it. Her is the wreck off a WW II liberty ship the ' James Harrod ' . Sit in one of the 7 jeeps
You will here noise of engines , by these are the lol small fishing boats returning to the beach , and they give the reef a wide berth, ALWAYS use a SMB here.
Andy