MCS: Lancashire area group

Diver's records are a valuable source of information about the wildlife close to the British coast line. Over the years the Lancashire group has surveyed numerous sites, and collected records of the types of plant and animal they found, and in what physical environment they found them. A small number of these records have been collected below:

• Calve Island, Tobermory Bay, west coast of Scotland.
• Lochaline Hotel wall, Lochaline, Sound of Mull.

Please feel free to compare and contrast the records here with any you have taken. Many species are seasonal, so the date of the survey is as important as the depth and substrate!

If you wish to learn more about how to recognise species, or conduct a sea life survey that can be used in the national reporting scheme, please see our events diary for the next planned course.