Ireland
Ireland · North Atlantic
Ireland's Atlantic coastline delivers surprisingly rich cold-water diving, from Europe's first marine nature reserve at Lough Hyne to basking shark corridors off Rathlin Island and dramatic sea cave systems carved into the Carboniferous limestone of County Clare.
Dive sites
Lough Hyne
spiny starfish · purple sea urchin · crawfish (spiny lobster) · corkwing wrasse
Rathlin Island
basking shark · ocean sunfish · edible crab · atlantic grey seal
Kilkee Sea Caves
velvet swimming crab · common octopus · pollock · sea lemon nudibranch
Fair Head
plumose anemone · dead man's fingers · harbour porpoise
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