Snorkeling in Ireland ? Help me please!!

taurus747

Hi everyone,
I am trying to organise a present for my husband for our first wedding anniversary. We went on honeymoon to Australia and he LOVED the snorkeling along the great barrier reef. I understand the experience will not be the same here but I want to get him a voucher or a day out snorkeling in Ireland...so can anybody recommend where would be the best place for him to go snorkelling here. Would really appreciate some help/ info on where would be the best place to go.
Thanking you all in advance
Taurus

locum-motion

Tedshredsonfire is the man you need to talk to on this forum.
What part of the country are you in?

spaceHopper

locum-motion wrote: »

Tedshredsonfire is the man you need to talk to on this forum.
What part of the country are you in?

He runds freediving lessons in mullaghmore near sligo / bundoran has a face book page and wbe site.
https://www.facebook.com/FreediveIreland
http://www.freediveireland.com

He has all the gear your husband would need and could easily do something between freediving and snorkeling

nathan184

You could also get him membership in a diving club that has active snorkeling people. What part of the country are you in?

A year of snorkeling membership will probably be less than €200. Buying your own gear will be cheap if you go to lidl on thursday:
http://www.lidl.ie/cps/rde/xchg/SID-3BAEEE5A-B446F574/lidl_ri_ie/hs.xsl/index_20614.htm

Could probably pick up a wetsuit on divegear.ie/donedeal.ie/adverts.ie for less than €100.

taurus747

Hi there thanks for your quick responses!!
We are based in the West of Ireland and are willing to travel....i might get a night away too!!!:) just think it would be nice for him to snorkel in ireland but I am clueless as to where to go! Will check out the links above and appreciate any more help!! Thanks a million:)

seadeuce

Give Scubadive West a ring. They're up the road from you in Renvyle.

They have all the gear, and could bring your hubby out as a snorkeller when going on a dive. They would drop him in closer to the coast of course.

Why not arrange for him to do a Try-a-Dive (Discover Scuba) with them while he's at it?
Before you know it you would both want to re-visit a coral reef somewhere nice and warm.

This is called creating the circumstances for a multi-dimensional holiday.

Cheers!

Seadeuce

tedshredsonfire

Thanks for the plug lads heading to Egypt on Sunday so hope to have some pics back and a few stories hopefully.

Benny-c

tedshredsonfire wrote: »

Thanks for the plug lads heading to Egypt on Sunday so hope to have some pics back and a few stories hopefully.

Not Jealous....honest;)

tedshredsonfire

I know its a tough life but hey someone has to.

longshanks

I'm not jealous either. No. Not me.
Not. One. Little. Bit.

tedshredsonfire

Just back today manta ray and a whale shark so yeah epic was hoping to hit 50m cw but had a lot of sinus issues all week. Cleared a little by Friday so got to 40m again then on Sat got 42 and sat afternoon 44. 45 would have sounded nicer but anywya no complaints. will have a vid of the manta and whale shark by the end of the week I hope.

seadeuce

Where were you in Egypt? Brothers?? Or further south to St. John's???

tedshredsonfire

Tower bay in Sharm its an Italien resort house reef is ok but usually have some big stuff. swam with an oceanic white tip there two years ago

Peace

seadeuce wrote: »

Where were you in Egypt? Brothers?? Or further south to St. John's???

I'll be out on the brothers, st johns, elphinstone etc next week. Just sayin....

tedshredsonfire

Peace wrote: »

I'll be out on the brothers, st johns, elphinstone etc next week. Just sayin....

haha yeah I will be in slightly colder water by about 20 degrees on friday. To be fair the great thing there is its on the reef so 20m from shore, you walk out the floating pontoon and in you dive. Great set up