$ cat diving/sites/cave-of-birds
Cave of the Birds.
The Cave of the Birds is described as the deepest passage in the Sugarloaf Caves system, not a separate site. A club report describes it as a V-shaped passage about 100 m long with no clear surface until the end. Seals use the cave and have been known to follow divers back out.
Where · Part of the Sugarloaf Caves system, south coast near the Chasms, south-west of Port St Mary
Type · cave
Depth · to 12 m
Logged · 2 dives, 11 Mar 2006 – 8 Apr 2006
I logged it as the Cave of Birds.
$ man cave-of-birds
01 / The dive
What's down there.
POINTS OF INTEREST
- V-shaped passage about 100 m long
- No air surface until the far end
- Junction with the other Sugarloaf caverns
- Natural light at the cave junctions
MARINE LIFE
- Grey seals
- Hydroids
- Sponges
- Anemones
DEPTH & CONDITIONS
No depth is given for this cave on its own; the Sugarloaf Caves system as a whole reaches about 12 m.
Boat dive on calm days only. This is an overhead environment with no surface for most of its length, so a torch is needed and cave and overhead limits apply.
$ grep cave-of-birds diving/log | wc -l
03 / Logged here
2 dives.
From the reconstructed log — the dates follow the pattern I dived, so read them as representative rather than exact.
2006 2