facilities
Facilities
Lochaline Dive Centre offers catered or self-catering accommodation at two premises:
The Dive Lodge
The Dive Centre Lodge sleeps up to 24, sleeping two to a room. Each room has been recently refurbished to provide underfloor heating and full ensuite facilities: wash-hand basin, toilet and shower. The lodge is available on a per room basis, but large communal cooking and dining facilities also make it an ideal venue for socialising with other divers and for larger groups to plan their activities. The Dive Lodge has wireless broadband internet access.
The Lodge has gear storage and washing facilities, loads of hot water for showers and an efficient drying room for undersuits.
Adjacent is the well-stocked Dive Centre shop and filling station (open between 0800 and 2000hrs). Air can be charged up to 300 bar. Nitrox and Trimix are available on provision of appropriate certification (please inform us in advance if you require Trimix). Cylinders, weight belts and torches are available for hire.
The Lodge has a café, and is two minutes' walk from the village shop, a great restaurant and the harbour area.
The Old Post Office
The Old Post Office offers shorefront accommodation for 10 persons with a comfortable lounge, kitchen and drying room. It is ideal for small groups of divers and the courses hosted by the Centre.
There are two bathrooms with electric showers, a drying room, loads of space for gear storage, and facilities for washing kit.
The Old Post Office is two minutes' walk from the Hotel beach & West Pier (offering a superb wall dives), and five minutes' walk from the Dive Centre Lodge, with its café shop and filling station.
Dive Charter Vessel
New for 2009 is the Centre's 12.5m dive charter vessel "Sound Diver". Available year round for charter, this spacious twin engined hard boat is over 5m in the beam and has purpose built deep seated dive benches. A hydraulic diver lift at the stern, and an onboard compressor & generator make this an ideal diving platform. In addition 3D visualisations of the wreck of the Hispania, using WreckSight software courtesy of ADUS, are available onboard to aid dive planning.
Sound Diver is available for charter at £400 a day for 12 divers. For smaller groups and individuals please contact LDC directly.
Moorings and other boats
The Lodge has parking space for cars, and the Post Office has space for parking boats and trailers too. The Centre also has ground adjacent to the Lochaline Social Club (near the CalMac ferry slip) specifically for boats and trailers. The Centre has a small number of moorings suitable for RIBS, and these are free to residents. There is additional parking for customers at the Old Pier - which will accommodate RIBs and trailers also. Convenient launching facilities are available at the harbour, courtesy of Caledonian MacBrayne.
Additional charter boats are available out of Lochaline, these can be arranged directly with Lochaline Boat Charters (Alan or David) or Silverswift (Paul Gallagher) - see our links page for further information.
Booking form
Please get in contact to find out if the dates you would like are available; you can post the form below through with your deposit to confirm your booking:
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