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Map of the Vivian Quarry

Map of the Vivian Quarry

Vivian Quarry is the large cut in the hillside opposite Llanberis, it is accessible from the Padarn Country Park. Originally just a deserted slate quarry with a quarry lake where you could park the next to the archway and go for a dive, it now has a small diving centre associated with it. This has brought some benefits like a purpose built access platform for divers to more easily enter and exit the water. This is … Read entire article »

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Dorothea Quarry – Map

Dorothea Quarry – Map

The Dorothea quarry was one of my local dive sites, was used for training or when conditions were not very good at other dive sites. There was always a bit of a mystery with this site as most of the divers I knew had only a limited knowledge of the actual quarry layout. As a bit of a map enthusiast I made it one of my projects to produce a detailed map of the site. The … Read entire article »

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