WELCOME TO OCEANLIFE KILKEE 

Twenty-two named dive sites, what's down there, and a live read on whether the wind has put them out.

Natural rock pools on the Duggerna reef that only appear at spring low tide. What lives in them, how to time your visit, and why the tide is not negotiable.

Wind is not the thing that stops you. Swell is, and it arrives from storms you never saw. What the numbers on a marine forecast actually mean, and the ones worth checking before you load the car.

Most diving gear dies in a garage, not in the sea. Twenty minutes of rinsing and the right way to hang a suit will save you more money than any bargain you ever find.

3 mm, 5/4 or 7 mm, and when a drysuit is the honest answer. How to tell if one fits, why swimming and diving need different suits, and what to look for in the end-of-season sale.

The sea is at its warmest weeks after the air is. Add settled water, better visibility and empty dive sites, and the month everyone writes off is the one worth booking.

Two fins in the water and a metre of gap between them. The giant courtship circles and breaching seen off Loop Head in late August and September, what the Irish name tells you, and the rules for sharing the water with one.

The commonest whale off the Clare coast, and the hardest to see. How to actually spot one from the cliffs, when they are here, and why they follow the mackerel.

Electric blue and orange on a Clare reef, and a life history that reads like fiction. Why the males and females look like different species, and what happens when the male disappears.

Long legs, a shell wearing seaweed on purpose, and a moult so total the crab has to walk out of its own face. Plus the mass gatherings that turn the seabed into something out of a documentary.

A face in a crack that does not move away. What congers actually are, why they hold the same hole for years, the one thing that makes them dangerous, and the strangest fact in their life history.

A fish that cannot stop swimming without suffocating, and is never in one place for long. Why a shoal can be under you at the Diamond Rocks one minute and gone the next, and what to look for at the surface.

Buried in the sand at low tide from May to September, on sandy beaches all around Ireland. What the sting feels like, the hot water treatment that actually works, and the mistake that lands people with a burn on top of it.

Kilkee gets moon jellies in numbers every summer, and they are close to harmless. How to tell them from the one that does sting, and why the four rings are not what most people think.

Our most popular thing, and the one people are most nervous about. What actually happens on a Discover Scuba session at the slipway or Newfee, and why half a day is exactly the right length.

The qualification that lets you dive anywhere in the world to 18 metres. What SSI is, how the course runs in Kilkee, and the age and depth rules that catch families out.

The most reliable fish on this coast. Where they hold, why they hang in the current, and how to get close to one instead of watching it leave.

Common dolphins, bottlenose, harbour porpoise and the occasional minke. What turns up along this coast, when, and why the famous Shannon dolphins are not the ones you will meet.

A Mediterranean fish that drifts to Clare on the Gulf Stream, arrives when the sea is at its warmest, and cannot breed in our water. Why late August is when you see them.

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