Hi there, I want to let you know about
divesearch.co.uk - UK Dive Charter Boat Search - Main Page, which will answer many of the questions on this part of the forum - over 200 dive boats now listed.
I put it together after organising many dive trips and not being able to find one source for information on dive charters. The website is a clickable map showing over 200 dive charter boats, hardboats, ribs and liveaboards. The info is totally up to date (I have not been able to contact a couple but there is a note in the text).
It narrows down your search as it will tell you min booking number, season of operation; before you even need to contact/phone any skippers (many skippers websites won't tell you this info). There are links directly to the skippers/dive centres.
I hope it is easy to use -(comments welcome) but one very useful feature is the search facility, as a boat based in one port may happily pick you up or go outside its area, so please do use the search facility aswell as the clickable map. Particularly useful, eg if you want to dive with seals, type in seals, which come up in surprising places eg Dover.
Skippers list for free.
So time to get going for ideas for the diving season, have fun
Cath Darton, Divesearch.co.uk