ABOUT DEIFWYR MÔN DIVERS
We are a BSAC dive club based in Holyhead Sailing Club on Anglesey.
We dive all year round, in the sea whenever possible and in local quarries when the sea turns brown in winter.
We have a strong conservation ethos and regularly collaborate with local marine conservation organisations such as Project Seagrass, Seasearch, North Wales Wildlife Trust, and the Porcupine Marine Natural History Society.
If your passion is for protecting the marine environment, then we’re the club for you!
Underwater Anglesey talks at Plas y Brenin Outdoor Pursuits Centre
North Wales Seasearch
Seasearch is a national organisation that uses volunteer divers and snorkellers working together for marine conservation.
Many DMD members are very active in our local Seasearch branch, regularly contributing to the marine conservation work that Seasearch do.
Porcupine Marine Natural History Society
The society takes it’s name from the naval survey vessel HMS Porcupine, which was engaged on scientific expeditions in the N.E. Atlantic and Mediterranean in 1869 and 1870. She made the first ever deep ocean dredge for living creatures in 1869, resulting in the naming of the Porcupine Bank off the west coast of Ireland.
PMNHS has a bulletin, an annual conference, and runs marine field courses every year.
On the field courses a large group of marine specialists and citizen scientists gather for a week to do a marine bioblitz of a particular area.
We survey the intertidal and subtidal areas to get a complete picture of the marine environment and the species that live there.
Our records are added to Marine Recorder, and become part of the national database that informs Government policy
In 2022 we went to Lundy Island, and the video below shows what we found.
2024 will take us to Alderney to do a survey work there.
PMNHS Field Trip to Lundy 2022
A video of the diving work from our 2022 July field trip to Lundy Island, Devon.
Scientific divers from the society surveyed the reefs around Lundy by monitoring specific species (pink sea fans, sunset cup corals, spiny lobsters and potato crisp bryozoans) and recording all obvious life as part of a 'bioblitz' survey.
Work also involved assisting with the Darwin Tree of Life project.