Pirate Bear
United Kingdom
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Nº561
Date: 2014-05-26 - 13:47
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Max Depth: 30.5m Duration: 53mins
Dive Location
- Temp: Surf 17°C Bottom 12°C
- Dive type : Recreational, Wreck
- Visibility: Good Water: Salt
Specific gear used
- Dry suit: O'Three - Ri1-100
- Light: Gibielle - Tritone
- Mask: Oceanic - Shadow
- Weights: 10 kg
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- 20L Steel
- Average depth: 16.8m
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Cracking diving on this wreck. About as good as British diving gets.
Shot was off the port side just aft of the engine room. So we made our way sternwards along the side before dropping into the main hull. Amazed to find a Bull huss just above the stern section. ... Mast have been at least 4 foot long. Filmed him and the conger eel underneath him for a short while before heading over to look at the steering quadrant which still looks very intact.
Moving forward we soon found ourselves inside the main part of the wreck moving towards the massive engine block and boilers. Lovely light through the whole wreck and tonnes of bib, pollack and mackerel. Took plenty of video including a spider crab marching across the seabed.
Up towards the bow we tried to make out the bow locker where the anchors used to be found. Looks like the storms over the winter have really damaged the wreck as most of the intact bow section has been knocked away. Amazed at how visibly damaged a wreck of a hundred years can become over just one stormy winter.
Tried to set off my dsmb bottle but turns out it wasn't filled :-( so I filled it (poorly) from my octopus.
Coming back up the line we had plenty of fun playing with the plankton and hydroids? In the sunshine and beautiful viz.
Steaming back in to Dartmouth came across a few dolphin swimming West.
A very good bank holiday indeed.