More advanced divers will be lured to the challenge of the Blue Hole dive site just north of town.

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Its sale follows bids to turn the ship into a London heliport, a dive site off Devon or other facilities overseas.

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Within five years they had a 15-room hotel resort on the beach, with their dive shop and instructors on site and a full restaurant and bar.

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We'll then dive into development with Google engineers on site to help you at any point.

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Ian Wheatcroft, branch manager at Ciceley Commercials, in Petersfield Road, said some staff at the firm used vans to make short journeys around the site to avoid being "dive-bombed" by the birds.

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But novices need not fear: local dive masters know how to best match the site to the prevailing conditions.

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The site includes a cave complex, dive pool and roadways.

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Check the Project Aware site to see if you can volunteer dive time with a local event.

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One of the unsuccessful proposals had been to strip and sink the carrier for a diving site, put forward by Torbay-based dive group Wreck the World.

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