Dive Sites in United Kingdom

100 dive sites and underwater attractions

England

RMS Mulheim (wreck)

📍 Sennen Cove
wreck

The RMS Mülheim was a German cargo ship that was built in Romania and launched in May 1999. It was wrecked on 22 March 2003 at Land's End, United Kingdom.

Red Boat

📍 Tonbridge and Malling
🌊 North Sea
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 51.3170° North, 0.4452° East.

Dive Site 1156299409

📍 Loftus
🌊 North Sea
wreck

This is a non-dangerous wreck. Historic wreck site. Located at 54.5792° North, 0.7914° West.

Herzogin Cecilie

📍 South Hams
wreck

Herzogin Cecilie was a German-built four-mast barque (windjammer), named after German Crown Princess Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1886–1954), spouse of Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1882–1951). She sailed under German, French and Finnish flags.

Dive Site 1156299263

🌊 North Sea
wreck

This is a non-dangerous wreck. Historic wreck site. Located at 54.6244° North, 0.7394° West.

wreck

SM UB-81 was a German Type UB III submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy during World War I. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 18 September 1917 as SM UB-81.

wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 50.6317° North, 0.7283° West.

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 50.7169° North, 0.6100° West.

Dive Site 1156298975

🌊 North Sea
wreck

This is a non-dangerous wreck. Historic wreck site. Located at 54.6303° North, 0.7160° West.

Indiana

📍 Worthing
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 50.7842° North, 0.3700° West.

MV Cita

📍 Old Town
wreck

On 26 March 1997, the 300-ft merchant vessel MV Cita pierced its hull when running aground on rocks off the south coast of the Isles of Scilly in gale-force winds en route from Southampton to Belfast. The incident happened just after 3 am when the German-owned, Antiguan-registered 3,000 tonne vessel hit Newfoundland Point, St Mary's.

MV Creteblock

📍 Whitby
🌊 North Sea
wreck

Endymion

📍 Southport
🌊 North Sea
wreck

Dive Site 1156298899

🌊 North Sea
wreck

This is a non-dangerous wreck. Historic wreck site. Located at 54.6516° North, 0.9772° West.

Dive Site 10659593971

📍 Borough of Swale
🌊 North Sea
wreck

Dive Site 10659593950

📍 Borough of Swale
🌊 North Sea
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 50.6575° North, 0.6586° West.

Dive Site 1156298981

🌊 North Sea
wreck

This is a non-dangerous wreck. Historic wreck site. Located at 54.5832° North, 0.6028° West.

Dive Site 10659593928

📍 Canterbury
🌊 North Sea
wreck

Dive Site 1156299099

🌊 North Sea
wreck

This is a non-dangerous wreck. Historic wreck site. Located at 54.5997° North, 0.6881° West.

Dive Site 10659311690

📍 Whitstable
🌊 North Sea
wreck

Dive Site 10657267444

📍 Borough of Swale
🌊 North Sea
wreck

Tugboat wreck

📍 North Tyneside
🌊 North Sea
wreck

Dive Site 1156299278

🌊 North Sea
wreck

This is a non-dangerous wreck. Historic wreck site. Located at 54.6400° North, 0.7238° West.

Vera

📍 North Norfolk
🌊 North Sea
wreck

SS Barnhill

📍 Eastbourne
wreck

Boilers visible from shore at low tide

Barn Hill

📍 Worthing
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 50.7897° North, 0.3389° West.

Dive Site 10659593951

📍 Borough of Swale
🌊 North Sea
wreck

Dive Site 1156298962

📍 Whitby
🌊 North Sea
wreck

This is a non-dangerous wreck. Historic wreck site. Located at 54.5337° North, 0.5967° West.

Britsum

📍 Chichester
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 50.6728° North, 0.7942° West.

Dive Site 1156299243

🌊 North Sea
wreck

This is a non-dangerous wreck. Historic wreck site. Located at 54.5798° North, 0.5387° West.

Dive Site 1156298976

🌊 North Sea
wreck

This is a non-dangerous wreck. Historic wreck site. Located at 54.5809° North, 0.7371° West.

MV Probe

📍 East Suffolk
🌊 North Sea
wreck

built as motor minesweeper of the MMS ll class. HMS MMS 1086, MS Franklin Roosevelt.

Dive Site 1156298991

🌊 North Sea
wreck

This is a non-dangerous wreck. Historic wreck site. Located at 54.5632° North, 0.5324° West.

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 50.6753° North, 0.9025° West.

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 50.7050° North, 0.2381° West.

Dive Site 1156299293

📍 Saltburn by the Sea
🌊 North Sea
wreck

This is a non-dangerous wreck. Historic wreck site. Located at 54.6235° North, 0.9945° West.

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 50.6750° North, 0.1106° West.

Dive Site 10659593947

📍 Borough of Swale
🌊 North Sea
wreck

HMS Scylla

📍 Freathy
wreckreef

HMS Scylla (F71) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN). She was built at Devonport Royal Dockyard, the last RN frigate to be built there as of 2025. Scylla was commissioned in 1970, taken out of service in 1993 in accordance with Options for Change, and sunk as an artificial reef in 2004 off Whitsand Bay, Cornwall.

Dive Site 10651610463

📍 Southend-on-Sea
🌊 North Sea
wreck

Dive Site 7842923297

📍 East Suffolk
🌊 North Sea
wreck

City of Brisbane

📍 Peacehaven
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 50.7425° North, 0.0139° West.

Sheraton

📍 King's Lynn and West Norfolk
🌊 North Sea
wreck

Dive Site 1156298974

🌊 North Sea
wreck

This is a non-dangerous wreck. Historic wreck site. Located at 54.6008° North, 0.7187° West.

Alba / Scotland

Fram Bow Section

📍 Rosehearty
🌊 North Sea
wreck

Pride of Strome

📍 Stromeferry
wreck

This is a hull_showing wreck. Historic wreck site. Located at 57.3637° North, 5.5455° West.

SMS Brummer

📍 Orphir
🌊 North Sea
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 58.8972° North, 3.1519° West.

Northern Ireland

HMS Thrush

📍 Glenarm
wreck

HMS Thrush was a Redbreast-class composite gunboat, the third ship of the name to serve in the Royal Navy.

Scotland

Dive Site 2946611221

📍 Burntisland
🌊 North Sea
wreck

F2

📍 Lyness
🌊 North Sea

MV Captayannis

📍 Helensburgh
🌊 North Sea
wreck

Greek freighter shipwrecked in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. This is a hull_showing wreck. Historic wreck site. Located at 55.9758° North, 4.7419° West.

SMS Markgraf

📍 Orphir
🌊 North Sea
wreck

SMS Markgraf was the third dreadnought battleship of the four-ship König class. She served in the Imperial German Navy during World War I. The battleship was laid down in November 1911 and launched on 4 June 1913. She was formally commissioned into the Imperial Navy on 1 October 1914, just over two months after the outbreak of war in Europe. Markgraf was armed with ten 30.5-centimeter (12 in) guns in five twin turrets and could steam at a top speed of 21 knots.

SMS Karlsruhe

📍 Houton
🌊 North Sea
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 58.8897° North, 3.1883° West.

Northern Ireland / Tuaisceart Éireann

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