Pirate Bear
United Kingdom
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Nº657
Date: 2015-08-10 - 10:14
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Max Depth: 38m Duration: 72mins
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- Dry suit: O'Three - Ri1-100
- Light: Gibielle - Tritone
- Mask: Oceanic - Shadow
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Michelle Kim
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Awesome dive with Michelle….. even Nessie is starting to want to be on a rebreather now!
Down the line over the hull of the wreck and onto the port rail. Down the line and tied off a small strobe (turned out to be useless in the end). But then we set off to towards the mast. Really cool looking up inside the mast at the ladder moving up in front of it. Up in the lookouts post we could easily see the eye slits and the hatch into the lookout post.
Back along the mast and onto the wreck again we swam back into the hole where the guns were squashed under. absolutely massive barrels- can’t really comprehend how big the shells must have been to come out of the end of it.
Clear to spot the big barrel on the top and then we moved along into the cave where it was possible to see the two other sternmost guns. Cool how the port gun has smashed its way into the teak decking (all above one’s head!)
Coming back out from the gun section we came up and saw one of the side mounted casemount gun (number 7).
The actual stern of the wreck is really very narrow for such a big vessel but it soon fills out when you get up past the massive twin rudders. Such a beautiful section of wreckage up here… like something from the red sea but covered in soft corals and plumose anemones. Tonnes of little poor cod, ling, pollack, cuckoo wrasse, balloon wrasse, soft corals and various out marine life around the wreck. Much much more life and things to see on this wreck compared to what I remember…. think it’s due to being on the unit, not being so narked and having great briefings.