Licence

Dive at protected wrecks licence (Wales)

You must have a licence in order to dive designated shipwreck sites.

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There are 6 designated shipwreck sites in Welsh Waters:

  • The Smalls Viking wreck site, Pembrokeshire
  • The Mary, Skerries, Anglesey
  • Pwll Fanog wreck, Menai Strait, Anglesey
  • Tal y Bont wreck, Barmouth, Gwynedd
  • The Diamond, Barmouth, Gwynedd
  • Resurgam submarine, Rhyl, Denbighshire

What you’ll need to apply

You’ll need the:

  • name of the shipwreck site applicants want to dive
  • names of the divers
  • dates you want to dive

If authorisation is granted it will only be for the named site, divers and dates.