The Bell Rock Lighthouse
5 September, 2004

We boarded the MV North Star in Pittenweem harbour and motored out to the site in 90 minutes on a calm morning ebbing tide.

We enjoyed two long dives to the east of the lighthouse. The first dive with the current took us from south east northwards along the gullies at depths from 10 to 20 metres where the reef flattens out onto a cobbly bottom.

Everywhere the reefs were covered in Dead Men's Fingers with thick kelp on the tops of the reefs down to 15 metres. There were lots of fish on the site including shoals of Pollack ove rthe top of the reefs and Ballan Wrasse among the overhangs. We enjoyed our delicious lunch on board while sitting quietly on the flat calm sea and after circling the lighthouse decided to carry out our second dive on the east side of the reef. We dived from north to south but this time with no tidal stream back along the gullies and reefs. The weather stayed kind and we motored back to the harbour after a grand day out - thanks to our skipper Iain Easingwood for his attentions to all our needs during the trip.

The Dive Team

Back row L to R: Ian Seath, Alistair Stewart, Derek Bryce, Tom Cooper.
Middle row: Ken Aitken, Jim Anderson, Stewart McGinley, Jenny Young, Martin Mulhall, Liz Dolan, Ian Bett and Gordon Young in the middle at the front.

All photographs by Jim Anderson

If you want to find out more about the history of the lighthouse then link from the image above.