Eyemouth, Scotland, United Kingdom

Eyemouth Harbour Wall

The Eyemouth harbour wall is one of the most reliable shore-diving sites on the East Berwickshire coast and a regular base for visitors to the St Abbs and Eyemouth Voluntary Marine Reserve. Easy entry from the wall steps leads onto a mixed bottom of rocks, sand and small reefs in 4 to 15 metres of water, sheltered from prevailing weather. The site is heavily used for entry-level training, refreshers, equipment shake-downs and night dives. Marine life is rich for a harbour: plumose anemones, dead man's fingers, snakelocks anemones, sponges, hydroids and pink coralline algae cover the rocks, with kelp on the shallower margins. Resident species include wolffish, butterfish, sea scorpions, ballan wrasse, pollack, conger eels, lumpsuckers, edible crabs, spider crabs and lobsters. Visibility is generally 4 to 10 metres and water temperatures sit between 7 and 14 degrees Celsius. Currents are weak inside the harbour. The site connects to the wider reserve dive sites by short boat trips from Eyemouth.