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Craigleith Island is an excellent drift dive area when a good tide is running with depths up to 20-25m. The island offers walls, ledges, reefs and boulder fields. Fish such as wrasse, cod, saithe, conger eels as well as lobsters and crabs. Colourful deadmans fingers, anemones and urchins galore are to be seen. Seals also play around the island and at times tug at your fins.

Lamb Island is an often neglected dive site, but with shallow ridges and gullies of 6-8m makes an excellent training area. The north side is a pleasant dive, a small cliff drops to around 8m then a boulder field slopes away to 20m to a sandy bottom. Angler fish are a great attraction here as well as abundant lobsters and crabs. The masses of white and orange deadmans fingers create a dazzling sight in bright sunlight or in the beam of a torch.

Fidra Island another great site for novice & experienced diver with bays and gullies of 7-8m that are home to numerous lobsters, crabs and shrimps, angler fish are also to be found. The north of the island offers great drift dives between the small islets and sandy bottomed gullies. To the south between the island and the mainland the Sound of Fidra also offers an exciting drift dive when the spring tides are running.

The Bass Rock is an almost circular island offering many different dive sites. One of the most popular dive sites is the north east face, there is a cliff that drops to 40m+ where large dahlia anemones of varied colour cover the wall as well as orange and white deadmans fingers, brittle stars plus huge sunstars. Searching slowly around the island you can come across wolf-fish, conger eels, butterfish, octopus, lobsters and crabs. There is a cave that runs from east to west through the island and seals are common companions when diving around the cave entrances.