Pirate Bear
United Kingdom
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Nº566
Date: 2014-08-16 - 15:00
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Max Depth: 34m Duration: 57mins
Dive Location
- Dive type : Recreational, Wreck
- Visibility: Bad Water: Salt
Specific gear used
- Dry suit: O'Three - Ri1-100
- Light: Gibielle - Tritone
- Mask: Oceanic - Shadow
- Weights: 12 kg
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Recent Divers in Portland, Dorset
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Dive Profile
- 1. Air
- 15L Steel 200 → 60 bar
- Average depth: m
- 2. Nitrox 80
- 7L Aluminium 150 → 100 bar
- Average depth: 17.8m
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Species Identified
Conger conger (Linnaeus, 1758) (European conger)
Perca fluviatilis Linnaeus, 1758 (European perch)
Perch live in schools, often mixing with other species of fish, usually in the top 50 metres of water. Spawning takes place in April, the very sticky eggs being produced in bands. Females twine these bands around submerged...
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Pollachius virens (Linnaeus, 1758) (Saithe)
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Cracking dive on this submarine with Nessa. The wreck was very much as I remembered it albeit being much darker and worse viz than last year.
We arrived on the wreck on the port side around the conning tower. Had a good look around the base on the conning tower before making our way down to seabed level. There were lots of bib swimming around under the wreck and some absolutely enormous pollack.
Working our way around the bow we saw Tony and Scott. In the gloom it was a lot harder to make out the lovely pointy bow but the torpedo tubes were still very obvious with a massive conger poking his head out of the lower starboard torpedo tube..... needless to say Nessa screamed when she saw him.
Working our way backwards towards the stern we came across a number of other holes to look inside- some with congers some without.
Back towards the stern we saw the prominent hydroplanes and another huge conger eel sheltering in an area just above where the propellor would have sat. At this point we were quickly clocking up deco time so we moved onto the top of the wreck and progressed towards the conning tower, where we did a circuit whilst putting up the DSMB. Funny to see the prominent structure of the conning tower (as per the photos of the Sidon whilst she was still in a floating state).
Great dive followed by a nice pepper soup and roll. Nice boat to dive on and lovely facilities over at the Portland Marina- fit for an Olympian ;-)
Breathing 80% on the deco dive brought my deco time down from 12 mins to 6.... very nice! Need to get Nessa qualified on her ADP soon so she can catch up too.