Overnight Trips 2026
Sound of Mull via Lochaline
After missing out in 2025, we are excited to return in 2026 to once again explore the Sound of Mull using Lochaline as our base. What to expect you ask? The Sound of Mull is famous for its shipwrecks and scenic wall dives, so there is something for every diver!
We will arrive in Lochaline late evening on Thursday 21st May to settle into Highland Base Camp which will be our home for the next 3 nights. Friday 22nd May is when the diving kicks off, and we will be out in the sounds Friday, Saturday and Sunday, returning to Highland Base Camp each evening to rest and fuel up for the next day. After our days diving on Sunday, we will head home from Lochaline and return to normality.
Accommodation is in twin rooms at Highland Base Camp which provides en-suite shower and commonal kitchen/lounge. No food is included but the commonal kitchen is well equipped. There isn’t a lot of options for restaurants, so it is recommended to bring your own food.
Dates
21st-24th May
Prices
£365 members
£420 non-members
Deposit of £100 payable immediately to secure your spot.
Balance of £265 (£320 for non-members) due 1st March 2026.
Type of dive: hardboat, overnight
Minimum qualifications: Advanced Open Water, Drysuit
Recommended: Deep, Delayed Surface Marker Buoy
Fill out our booking form to secure your slot – password is DBStrips2026.
Any other questions, mail Tom and Jorge at trips@deepbluescuba.co.uk.
Best of West - MV Honeydew Liveaboard
Building on the success of our trips in 2024 and 2025, we are back aboard the MV Honeydew but we have something new up our sleeve for you in 2026! We’ve chartered the MV Honeydew for 6 days of diving down the West Coast of Scotland, departing from Ullapool and returning to Dunstaffnage Marina in Oban . This will give us the chance to explore some of the more remote sites on the West Coast of the mainland, for example Bo Fascadale, as well as hitting the Sound of Mull favourites, like the Hispania, at the end of the week. Don’t worry about transport to Ullapool and from Oban, we’ve got that covered as well! We will start and finish in Edinburgh.
We’ll meet in Edinburgh on Saturday 22nd August, load our kit into our hired mini bus and be driven up to Ullapool where we can settle into our home for the next 7 nights. Our 6 days of diving will start on Sunday 23rd August, taking us through to Friday 28th August when we will arrive at Dunstaffnage Marina in the afternoon. We will stay one more night aboard the MV Honeydew before being picked up by our hired mini bus and driven back to Edinburgh on Saturday 29th August after breakfast.
Accommodation is in twin berth rooms on board, and the trip is on a full board basis – expect to be well fed!
Check out Annabel’s report from last year.
To keep costs down, this trip will not be led by a member of the Dive Team, so there won’t be the possibility of taking a course or guided/supervised diving on the trip. It is important that all divers can navigate a dive and deploy a dSMB unaided, if this isnt you yet, get in touch and we can support with a course before hand.
Included: accommodation, full board, air
Excluded: mixed gases, kit hired directly from the boat (oxygen clean cylinders for example)
Dates
22nd August to 29th August
Prices
£1,150 members
£1,300 non-members
Deposit of £200 payable immediately to secure your spot.
Balance of £950 (£1100 for non-members) due 29th May 2026.
Type of dive: hard boat, overnight, liveaboard
Minimum qualifications: Advanced Open Water, Drysuit
Recommended: Nitrox, Deep, Delayed Surface Marker Buoy
Fill out our booking form to secure your slot – password is DBStrips2026.
Any other questions, mail Tom and Jorge at trips@deepbluescuba.co.uk.