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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
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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