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Dunlossit House is a large and distinguished-looking mansion overlooking the Sound of Islay, just south of Port Askaig.
Photo: Richard Booth
Dunlossit House is a large and distinguished-looking mansion overlooking the Sound of Islay, just south of Port Askaig. We learned about this excellent dive site from Gus Newman, a local diver who used to run a dive centre on Islay. Most of the sound is just 10m
deep, but this site reaches depths of more than 60m.
Descending into the water close to
the stone pier, you can drift down the slope and find bottles and broken pottery - detritus from Dunlossit House that has been thrown into the water from the stone pier over many years. The kelp disappears and the slope drops to reveal a seascape of rocks covered in colourful anemones and bright yellow sponges. The Port Askaig ferry to Jura operates 500m to the north of this site and, with the strong tidal currents that sweep this area, some care has to be taken to avoid surfacing in its path.
We also completed a number of other drift dives - of variable standard - in
the Sound of Islay. However, we had
come a long way, and the main advantage of an island is that you can usually find a site that's sheltered from the wind, whichever way it blows, and thus it proved with Islay. Ultimately, we didn't lose a day's diving, despite a week of fighting the weather.
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Richard Booth Seasoned British diver and Tyneside BSAC chairman, Richard Booth, 48, reports on the wonders of the Isle of Islay off the west coast of Scotland in this month’s GB Dives.
