Diving Ireland Dublin North Region

Fabulous day in DCU and Skerries with 7 new Snorkel Instructors in Dublin North and Dublin South.
Thanks to all the instructors and examiners who supported the course.
Diving Ireland
Diving Ireland Dublin South Region
Aer Lingus Divers
Alphadivesac

Thank you to everyone who joined us on Wednesday evening to discuss Seasearch Ireland’s plans for 2026 and beyond.

We’re already looking ahead to the next talk in our Spring Series on February 25th:

🦀 Online Workshop: Identifying Inshore Crustaceans
with Lin Baldock, Seasearch Coordinator

An interactive online workshop exploring how to identify various groups of crustaceans found in inshore waters.

🗓 Wednesday, Feb 25th
💻 Online | FREE

Register here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/2mlk6TnzTc6jnJTeO5pbeg #/registration

We hope to see you there!

Snorkel Instructor course underway this weekend in Dublin.
Aer Lingus Divers

📸 The Diving Ireland Underwater Photography Competition 2025/2026 is NOW OPEN! 🌊

We’re celebrating the incredible beauty of Ireland’s underwater world — and we want YOU to be part of it!

All Diving Ireland members are invited to submit up to four original images taken in Irish waters across our five categories: Wide Angle, Macro, Beginner, Landscape, and People.

🏆 Top Prize:
Become Diving Ireland Underwater Photographer of the Year 2026 and take home a hand-sculpted bronze trophy inspired by Ireland’s basking sharks.

🏅 Category Prizes:
- Large framed prints for winners
- Smaller framed prints for runners-up
- Plus: all placed images will appear in the Diving Ireland Photography Exhibition

📸 Any camera is welcome — smartphone, GoPro, compact, mirrorless, DSLR, or drone.

📅 Deadline: 17 January 2026

🏆 Awards: Given at the 2026

Full details & entry info:
👉 diving.ie/photography-competition-2026 or see our bio or check your emails!

Let’s show the world the beauty of Ireland’s underwater life 💙🐟

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*** Leading Diver 2025 ***

12 candidates travelled to the beautiful village of Portmagee in west Kerry. They were greeted with poor weather and a big swell which would certainly be a good test of their dive leadership skills, as they completed the final module of the Diver 3* programme.

The Candidates were from, Kilkee sac, UL sac, UCC sac, Blackwater sac, Kish sac, Dalkey Scubadivers, Mullingar sac, Offaly sac, Inishowen sac, Sheephaven sac and Rosses Snorkelling club.

All 12 candidates were successful. The Leading Diver grade is the third stage in a process of diver training offered by Diving Ireland and trains a diver to safely lead groups of divers of all experience levels. A successful candidate will have excellent organising and incident management skills and will be capable of leading dives in varying conditions, up to a max depth of 45m.

A big congratulations to all candidates who passed. Diving Ireland are very lucky to have gained such excellent new leaders.

The countdown is on to ‘The Deep Clean’ 20-21st September 🤿 The first National underwater cleanup 🧽 🪣 🧹

We have over 200 signups from 20 scuba diving clubs around Ireland … our Flossievols are busy getting the packs ready 💚

What will the weight be from below the water on World Cleanup Weekend ? Excited…we definitely are!!! 🐳 🌊 🦭

WE ARE BEYOND EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE OUR NEXT EVENT ON OUR CALENDAR …’THE DEEP CLEAN’. 🌊 🤿 🧼🎉

are so kind to collaborate with us on this one and now have 17 diving clubs around Ireland signed up to join this event 💚

So we all know how much we love cleaning on land 🏖️ , but we are so aware of how much pollution gets pulled out to the sea and can get stuck there, which means we look to scuba divers, free divers and snorkelers to help, we will also be joining one of the clubs for the event… FOMO 🤿 😂😍

We have over 200 signups within all the clubs and we can’t wait to see what as ever the weight and the ‘weird and wonderful’ that is pulled from the sea bed.

Ireland is one of the richest countries in the world for marine life 🐟 and coral 🪸, which we need to protect from pollution of all types, and obviously keeping our waterways, sea and oceans clean means we are also helping save the planet 🌍

This is the first ever national underwater cleanup and it will be happening on the same weekend as World Cleanup Day… 🌍 🧹 🧼

A HUGE thank you to all individuals in the Diving Clubs that signed up and also Diving Ireland for agreeing to collaborate with us on this event 🙏💚 🤿🐳🐬🐟🐠🐡🐋🦈🦭🦑🦀🐙