Scuba Diving is an increasingly popular pastime for people of all ages and from all walks of life. Millions of people watched Blue Planet and then wanted to experience the thrill of diving for the first time or wanted to get back into the water again. Nothing on earth matches the sensations you enjoy, the thrill of breathing underwater, the sensation of weightlessness or the unique sights and sounds.
The Sussex coastline has relatively more modern wrecks than the rest of Britain’s coastline due to the activities of German U-Boats in both World Wars and the fact that the Channel is narrow and one of the busiest shipping lanes. In addition there are a number of reefs with holes, crevices, canyons, boulders and cliffs. The reefs and wrecks attract prolific marine life including bib, pouting, wrasse, bass, blennies, lobsters, conger eels, crabs, shellfish, cuttlefish, rays and skate in addition to the profusion of soft corals and sponges including jewel and snake-locks anemonies and dead mens fingers. The cuttlefish who were the marine stars of Coast last year were filmed under Selsey Lifeboat Station. Selsey therefore provides an ideal base for some of the best diving anywhere in the UK.

Selsey has an active fishing fleet which moors in the area of the Lifeboat Station. The scraps thrown overboard assist in attracting the abundance of marine life which can be found in the area. This makes the existing Lifeboat Pier and the ruins of the old demolished Lifeboat Station an excellent shore dive. Within 5 minutes by boat you can reach the Far Mulberry and Mixon Hole. The Far Mulberry is part of defences built for the Normandy Invasion in WWII which has now become the home to a wide variety of marine life. In relatively shallow water the Far Mulberry is a favourite spot for underwater photographers and many novices make their first sea dive here. The Mixon Hole was part of the river exit to the sea and is one of the top diving sites in Britain. Further out, but within a 20 mile radius there are 700 wrecks of which over 100 are diveable these include Shirala, Gascony and HMS Northcoates. In addition to the east there is the Nab Tower one of six enormous towers built in 1917 as part of the intended fortifications against U-Boats.