Pirate Bear
United Kingdom
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Nº522
Date: 2013-07-27 - 14:57
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Max Depth: 33.1m Duration: 60mins
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- Temp: Surf 21°C Bottom 17°C
- Dive type : Wreck
- Visibility: Bad Water: Salt
Specific gear used
- Dry suit: O'Three - Ri1-100
- Light: Gibielle - Tritone
- Mask: Oceanic - Shadow
- Weights: 8 kg
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Dive Profile
- 1. Air
- 12L Steel 240 → 50 bar
- Average depth: m
- 2. Air
- 12L Steel 240 → 170 bar
- Average depth: 18.7m
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Species Identified
Homarus gammarus (Linnaeus, 1758) (European lobster)
The common lobster is a scavenger, and uses its pincers to manipulate food items . The sexes are separate, spawning occurs once a year in summer, and after mating, the female carries the eggs on her walking legs for a...
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Cancer pagurus (Edible crab)
Adult edible crabs take a very wide range of prey species, and are important predators of molluscs . When on sediments, these crabs dig large pits in order to find food . Females reach maturity at carapace widths of 1...
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Maja squinado (Herbst, 1788) (Sea spider)
Pollachius virens (Linnaeus, 1758) (Saithe)
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A totally unexpectedly great dive!
Having been very frustrated that we had been
blown out of the Moldavia trip and various complications trying to get this dive
in from Newhaven, I had been very much prepared that the visibility would be rubbish
and diving in a three would be disastorous. In fact we were greeted by possibly 4-5m
viz and a cracking wreck to see in it.
Arriving on this first World War tanker
we instantly noticed how much fish life there was on the wreck. Large shoals of bib
swarm around the wreck as well as the odd pollack and possibly some sea bass. The
other thing that was in large abundance were lobsters- mark spotted a monster one
strutting around inside the first swim-through. In total I think I saw 5 dotted around
the wreck, they didn't even seem to fussed about hiding away.
We arrived somewhere
around the superstructure I think (the wreck lies on it's starboard side) and made
our way aft towards the prop- was funny that Mark managed to miss it despite having
almost swam into it.
Lovely big rudder on the wreck. We then swam along the top
side and I thought there was a whole section in the distance but after swimming towards
the shadows we turned back around to the hull section. After a swim through onto
the hull side again we worked pretty hard against the escalating current past lost
of bib darting for cover and lots of dead men's fingers over the wreck. A huge jellyfish
was being washed along with the current and had to take evasive maneouvers to escape
it's tentacles. Mark and Ivan were keen to get back onto the other side but I luckily
found a lush swim through which took us a good 4 minutes up towards the bow (few
other lobsters hanging around in here as well as tonnes of bib). The blue window
at the end brought us onto the bow where we put up a bag since the current was ramping
up.
Up Mark's line with varying amounts of deepstops and deco but finished at
rough the same time to be back on the boat after an hour. The rain had cleared when
we reached the top and lead to a rapid and enjoyable trip back on the rib. Overall
definitely worth while making the trip.