Scuba Diving South Wales, West Wales, Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Llanelli , Carmarthen, Pembrokeshire regions
Scuba Diving, Sub Aqua, Scuba, Free Diving, Snorkelling
LOCAL AREA - South Wales, Cardiff CF105BZ , Porthcawl CF365DH , Swansea SA20AY , Bridgend CF311BB , Southerndown CF320RN , Newport NP202UW ,Ogmore by Sea CF320PH , Llantwit Major , Oxwich Bay SA31LS , Aberavon SA12 6QP , Stackpole Quay SA715DZ , Llanelli SA154SG, Pembrokeshire SA623AX .
SITE LOCATION - Sker Beach, Limeslade Bay, langland Bay, Oxwich Bay, Stackpole Quay, Martins Haven, St Brides Bay.

Scuba Diving Wales, South Wales, Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, West Wales 12th - 19th January 2025 - Scuba diving conditions are looking unsuitable for the next few days, with strong to gale force winds and large sea swells. The sea state should be rough even for experienced divers. Conditions are looking un-suitable for the next few days and unsafe in most regions. Sites close to Cardiff, Swansea, Carmarthen will all have the harder conditions and limited visibility and the West Wales sites such as Martins Haven and Site Brides bay the better conditions and visibility all round. The swell is due to pick up by the end of the week and may cause more turbulent diving conditions in the region. No diving in areas close to Cardiff, Swansea, South Wales, West Wales.

WIND / SWELL / SEA / RIVER FORECAST - Friday 17th January 2025 Wind e12 - Swell 4 foot / Saturday 18th January 2025 Wind e13 - Swell 3 Foot / Sunday 19th January 2025 wind e12 - Swell 4 foot / Monday 20th January 2025 Wind e11 - swell 4 foot / Tuesday 21st January 2025 Wind e14 - Swell 3 Foot / Wednesday 22nd January 2025 Wind e22 - Swell 2 Foot / Thursday 23rd January 2025 Wind e12 - Swell 2 foot / Friday January 2025 Wind - Swell foot / Saturday 2025 wind - Swell Foot / Sunday January 2025 Wind - Swell Foot / Monday 2025 - Wind / Swell Foot / Tuesday 2025 Wind Swell Foot / Wednesday 2025 Wind - Swell Foot / Thursday Wind Swell foot / High Tide HT 08.32pm / 9.6 meters / river levels 0.29 meters / Sea Temperature 9 degrees / River temperature 7 degrees / www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2640054 / magicseaweed.com/Porthcawl-Rest-Bay-Surf-Report/1449/ / https://www.windguru.cz/5693 https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/forecast/gcjkgequs#?date=

Scuba Diving South Wales, West Wales, Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Llanelli , Carmarthen, Pembrokeshire regions
Scuba Diving, Sub Aqua, Scuba, Free Diving, Snorkelling
LOCAL AREA - South Wales, Cardiff CF105BZ , Porthcawl CF365DH , Swansea SA20AY , Bridgend CF311BB , Southerndown CF320RN , Newport NP202UW ,Ogmore by Sea CF320PH , Llantwit Major , Oxwich Bay SA31LS , Aberavon SA12 6QP , Stackpole Quay SA715DZ , Llanelli SA154SG, Pembrokeshire SA623AX .
SITE LOCATION - Sker Beach, Limeslade Bay, langland Bay, Oxwich Bay, Stackpole Quay, Martins Haven, St Brides Bay.

Scuba Diving Wales, South Wales, Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, West Wales 05th January 2025 - Scuba diving conditions are looking unsuitable for the next few days, with strong to gale force winds and large sea swells. The sea state should be rough even for experienced divers. Conditions are looking un-suitable for the next few days and unsafe in most regions. Sites close to Cardiff, Swansea, Carmarthen will all have the harder conditions and limited visibility and the West Wales sites such as Martins Haven and Site Brides bay the better conditions and visibility all round. The swell is due to pick up by the end of the week and may cause more turbulent diving conditions in the region. No diving in areas close to Cardiff, Swansea, South Wales, West Wales.

WIND / SWELL / SEA / RIVER FORECAST - Friday November 2024 Wind - Swell foot / Saturday 28th 2024 Wind e7 - Swell 2 Foot / Sunday 29th December 2024 wind w20 - Swell 2 foot / Monday 30th December 2024 Wind w21 - swell 5 foot / Tuesday 31st December 2024 Wind sw41 - Swell 7 Foot / Wednesday 01st January 2024 Wind s53 - Swell 8 Foot / Thursday 02nd January 2024 Wind w39 - Swell 5 foot / Friday 03rd January 2024 Wind n11 - Swell 3 foot / Saturday 2024 wind - Swell Foot / Sunday December 2024 Wind - Swell Foot / Monday 2024 - Wind / Swell Foot / Tuesday 2024 Wind Swell Foot / Wednesday 2024 Wind - Swell Foot / Thursday Wind Swell foot / High Tide HT 16.41pm / 8.4 meters / river levels 0.31 meters / Sea Temperature 10 degrees / River temperature 7 degrees / www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2640054 / magicseaweed.com/Porthcawl-Rest-Bay-Surf-Report/1449/ / https://www.windguru.cz/5693 https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/forecast/gcjkgequs#?date=

Scuba Diving South Wales, West Wales, Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Llanelli , Carmarthen, Pembrokeshire regions
Scuba Diving, Sub Aqua, Scuba, Free Diving, Snorkelling
LOCAL AREA - South Wales, Cardiff CF105BZ , Porthcawl CF365DH , Swansea SA20AY , Bridgend CF311BB , Southerndown CF320RN , Newport NP202UW ,Ogmore by Sea CF320PH , Llantwit Major , Oxwich Bay SA31LS , Aberavon SA12 6QP , Stackpole Quay SA715DZ , Llanelli SA154SG, Pembrokeshire SA623AX .
SITE LOCATION - Sker Beach, Limeslade Bay, langland Bay, Oxwich Bay, Stackpole Quay, Martins Haven, St Brides Bay.

Scuba Diving Wales, South Wales, Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, West Wales 01st December 2024 - Scuba diving conditions are looking unsuitable for the next few days, with strong to gale force winds and large sea swells. The sea state should be rough even for experienced divers. Conditions are looking un-suitable for the next few days and unsafe in most regions. Sites close to Cardiff, Swansea, Carmarthen will all have the harder conditions and limited visibility and the West Wales sites such as Martins Haven and Site Brides bay the better conditions and visibility all round. The swell is due to pick up by the end of the week and may cause more turbulent diving conditions in the region. Update - 27th November 2024 , Weather is cold and wet and there are high swells and storms, scuba diving conditions will be unsuitable across the South Wales region. Update 01st December 2024 / Huge swells, high winds, storms and gales across the South Wales area. No diving in areas close to Cardiff, Swansea, South Wales, West Wales.

WIND / SWELL / SEA / RIVER FORECAST - Friday November 2024 Wind - Swell foot / Saturday 30th November 2024 Wind se15 - Swell 5 Foot / Sunday 01st December 2024 wind sw24 - Swell 6 foot / Monday 02nd December 2024 Wind w26 - swell 4 foot / Tuesday 03rd December 2024 Wind e13 - Swell 2 Foot / Wednesday 04th December 2024 Wind s23 - Swell 3 Foot / Thursday 05th December 2024 Wind sw26 - Swell 10 foot / Friday 06th December 2024 Wind w40 - Swell 8 foot / Saturday December 2024 wind - Swell Foot / Sunday december 2024 Wind - Swell Foot / Monday 2024 - Wind / Swell Foot / Tuesday 2024 Wind Swell Foot / Wednesday 2024 Wind - Swell Foot / Thursday Wind Swell foot / High Tide HT 17.47pm / 9.2 meters / river levels 0.537 meters / Sea Temperature 12 degrees / River temperature 7 degrees / www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2640054 / magicseaweed.com/Porthcawl-Rest-Bay-Surf-Report/1449/ / https://www.windguru.cz/5693 https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/forecast/gcjkgequs#?date=

Scuba Diving South Wales, West Wales, Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Llanelli , Carmarthen, Pembrokeshire regions
Scuba Diving, Sub Aqua, Scuba, Free Diving, Snorkelling
LOCAL AREA - South Wales, Cardiff CF105BZ , Porthcawl CF365DH , Swansea SA20AY , Bridgend CF311BB , Southerndown CF320RN , Newport NP202UW ,Ogmore by Sea CF320PH , Llantwit Major , Oxwich Bay SA31LS , Aberavon SA12 6QP , Stackpole Quay SA715DZ , Llanelli SA154SG, Pembrokeshire SA623AX .
SITE LOCATION - Sker Beach, Limeslade Bay, langland Bay, Oxwich Bay, Stackpole Quay, Martins Haven, St Brides Bay.

Scuba Diving Wales, South Wales, Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, West Wales 19th November 2024 - Scuba diving conditions are looking unsuitable for the next few days, with strong to gale force winds and large sea swells. The sea state should be rough even for experienced divers. Conditions are looking un-suitable for the next few days and unsafe in most regions. Sites close to Cardiff, Swansea, Carmarthen will all have the harder conditions and limited visibility and the West Wales sites such as Martins Haven and Site Brides bay the better conditions and visibility all round. The swell is due to pick up by the end of the week and may cause more turbulent diving conditions in the region. Update - 27th November 2024 , Weather is cold and wet and there are high swells and storms, scuba diving conditions will be unsuitable across the South Wales region. Update 01st December 2024 / Huge swells, high winds, storms and gales across the South Wales area. No diving in areas close to Cardiff, Swansea, South Wales, West Wales.

WIND / SWELL / SEA / RIVER FORECAST - Friday November 2024 Wind - Swell foot / Saturday November 2024 Wind - Swell Foot / Sunday 24th November 2024 wind sw41- Swell 9 foot / Monday 25th November 2024 Wind w34 - swell 8 foot / Tuesday 26th November 2024 Wind w16 - Swell 5 Foot / Wednesday 27th November 2024 Wind nw19 - Swell 2 Foot / Thursday 28th November 2024 Wind w27 - Swell 2 foot / Friday 29th November 2024 Wind sw25 - Swell 3 foot / Saturday 30th November 2024 wind sw18 - Swell 3 Foot / Sunday November 2024 Wind - Swell Foot / Monday 2024 - Wind / Swell Foot / Tuesday 2024 Wind Swell Foot / Wednesday 2024 Wind - Swell Foot / Thursday Wind Swell foot / High Tide HT 12.58pm / 7.7 meters / river levels 1.69 meters / Sea Temperature 12 degrees / River temperature 7 degrees / www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2640054 / magicseaweed.com/Porthcawl-Rest-Bay-Surf-Report/1449/ / https://www.windguru.cz/5693 https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/forecast/gcjkgequs#?date=

Scuba Diving South Wales, West Wales, Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Llanelli , Carmarthen, Pembrokeshire regions
Scuba Diving, Sub Aqua, Scuba, Free Diving, Snorkelling
LOCAL AREA - South Wales, Cardiff CF105BZ , Porthcawl CF365DH , Swansea SA20AY , Bridgend CF311BB , Southerndown CF320RN , Newport NP202UW ,Ogmore by Sea CF320PH , Llantwit Major , Oxwich Bay SA31LS , Aberavon SA12 6QP , Stackpole Quay SA715DZ , Llanelli SA154SG, Pembrokeshire SA623AX .
SITE LOCATION - Sker Beach, Limeslade Bay, langland Bay, Oxwich Bay, Stackpole Quay, Martins Haven, St Brides Bay.

Scuba Diving Wales, South Wales, Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, West Wales 19th November 2024 - Scuba diving conditions are looking unsuitable for the next few days, with strong to gale force winds and large sea swells. The sea state should be rough even for experienced divers. Conditions are looking un-suitable for the next few days and unsafe in most regions. Sites close to Cardiff, Swansea, Carmarthen will all have the harder conditions and limited visibility and the West Wales sites such as Martins Haven and Site Brides bay the better conditions and visibility all round. The swell is due to pick up by the end of the week and may cause more turbulent diving conditions in the region. Update - 20th November 2024 , Weather is very cold at the moment and there is ice and frost through out the area

WIND / SWELL / SEA / RIVER FORECAST - Friday November 2024 Wind - Swell foot / Saturday 16th November 2024 Wind w14 - Swell 2 Foot / Sunday 17th November 2024 wind ew25 - Swell 4 foot / Monday 18th November 2024 Wind w34 - swell 5 foot / Tuesday 19th November 2024 Wind w37 - Swell 4 Foot / Wednesday 20th November 2024 Wind nw17 - Swell 2 Foot / Thursday 21st November 2024 Wind nw26 - Swell 2 foot / Friday 22nd November 2024 Wind nw20 - Swell 3 foot / Saturday 25th November 2024 wind s40 - Swell 6 Foot / Sunday November 2024 Wind - Swell Foot / Monday 2024 - Wind / Swell Foot / Tuesday 2024 Wind Swell Foot / Wednesday 2024 Wind - Swell Foot / Thursday Wind Swell foot / High Tide HT 19.13pm / 10.13 meters / river levels .25 meters / Sea Temperature 13 degrees / River temperature 7 degrees / www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2640054 / magicseaweed.com/Porthcawl-Rest-Bay-Surf-Report/1449/ / https://www.windguru.cz/5693 https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/forecast/gcjkgequs#?date=

Scuba Diving Conditions Report for South Wales, Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Llanelli , Camarthen regions

ACTIVITIES - Scuba Diving, Sub Aqua, Scuba, Free Diving, Snorkelling

LOCAL AREA - South Wales, Cardiff CF105BZ , Porthcawl CF365DH , Swansea SA20AY , Bridgend CF311BB , Southerndown CF320RN , Newport NP202UW ,Ogmore by Sea CF320PH , Llantwitt Major , Oxwich Bay SA31LS , Aberavon SA12 6QP , Stackpole Quay SA715DZ , Llanelli SA154SG .

SITE LOCATION - Sker Beach, Limeslade Bay, langland Bay, Oxwich Bay, Stackpole Quay

WEATHER -   It has been a very cold week with temperatures below zero on average. This week from Saturday onwards looks the same with dry weather, snow, sleet and temperatures of just on zero. From Sunday into Monday the temperatures are changing with most days being up to 8 degrees and mainly dry. However there will be strong cold winds. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2648385?day=2) (https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/forecast/gcjqmsw80)

WATER TEMPERATURE - 9 Degrees

WIND - Strong winds all week, starting with 20 mph Northerlies on Saturday and then upto 30 mph Southerlies Sunday and Monday turning to Westerly 25 mph for the rest of the week. https://magicseaweed.com/Southerndown-Surf-Report/4321/)

SEA STATE AND SWELL -  Depends on the wind direction, from Sunday onwards the Sea state should be quite rough and stormy with high South and Westerly winds coming through  (https://magicseaweed.com/Southerndown-Surf-Report/4321/)

SWELL - 5 - 12 Feet

TIDES

High4:45AM8.42m
Low10:57AM2.55m
High5:08PM8.43m
Low11:19PM2.45m
First Light7:13AM
Sunrise7:49AM
Sunset5:08PM
Last Light5:44PM
SCUBA DIVING CONDITIONS REPORT FOR CARDIFF, SWANSEA, NEWPORT, SOUTH WALES AREA
The weather has been very cold over the past few days and the water temperature in the Sea down to 9 degrees and inland down to 5 degrees, this will be the coldest time to dive, so the right equipment is essential.
Sea conditions are not good in the area for diving with stormy seas, big swells and surf and very limited visability. The better conditions will definitely be inland.
We are running the PADI Open Water diver training course, The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver  course and the PADI Rescue Diver course over the next few weeks with our pool session on 02nd March 2019.

Scuba Diving Conditions for Cardiff, Swansea, South Wales and West Wales areas . Well again it has not been the best conditions for diving in South Wales, the swell has been big, the wind has been high and it dosent semm to be letting up at all at the moment. The best areas again will be West Wales in areas such as Martins Haven and St Brides Bay in pembrokeshire. The areas are far more sheltered here and less swell, and tidal movement so they offer far better diving areas than the more exposed South Facing area's in the channel.

Due to the weather and sea conditions we are teaching the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course inland this weekend to give the students the best opportunity for there training. We have students from accross South Wales including Ben and Laura from Swansea, Matthew from Cardiff, Alistair from Camarthen and Gemma from Swansea. The course will consist of 5 dives including Peak Buoyancy, Wreck, Deep, Navigation and naturalist diving.

The next traing event will be on the 22nd and 23rd August when we will be running the PADI open Water Diver Course for students accross the area. The course will consist of 4 qualifying dives to gain there first Scuba Diving Certification.

Cardiff Bay Diving and Watersports was established in Cardiff Bay on West Bute Street on 27th March 1998, the center was established to offer Scuba Diving Course' s through the PADI and BSAC systems offering the PADI Open Water Diver Programme and the BSAC Sports Diver Programme, we also offered Kayaking and watersports in the newly developed Bay area of Cardiff.

The company was established by Lee Garbett a PADI and BSAC Scuba Diving Instructor with a huge passion for the water and everything about it, originally from Walsall in the West Midlands he couldnt have been further from the Sea, but after a near fatal drowning event on the West Wales Coast at a very early age, he realised the water is where he wanted to be.

In 2002 the center was created in Porthcawl moving closer to the Sea where they wanted to be and changed the company name to Ocean Quest to create an organisation offering Scuba Diving, Instruction, Retail, Surfing, Kayaking, water skiing, wake boarding, jet skiing, and all related watersports.

Over the 16 years of operations Cardiff Bay Diving and Watersports and Ocean Quest have Instructed 1000's of people to Scuba Dive around the Glode, in 2004 they won the PADI Key Man Award for the Best center in PADI International and have been a PADI 5 Star International Dive Center since creation.

We would like to thank all the people we have trained and have visited us over the next 16 years, our passion in still and always will be the water so we will be here writting our next birthday review for many years to come.

 

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