Northern Gannet

Photo: Anne Schlösser · CC BY-NC

Northern gannets nest on the cliff face directly above Enniberg Wall and dive from heights of up to 30 metres, folding their 2-metre wingspan at the last moment to enter the water at over 90 kilometres per hour. Divers at shallow depths during seabird season — April through August — regularly witness gannets entering the water column in a stream of silver bubbles, manoeuvring underwater with surprising speed and agility before surfacing with a fish. The interaction between the aerial hunters above and the marine world below is one of the defining experiences of diving at Enniberg.