Dive St Abbs - boat spaces available.

[TOPLINE]

Dive St Abbs * Loads of space available most weekends, starting Easter 05 aboard Topline and Lazy-g-Diver at Stabbs.

* Both boats licenced for 12 divers, both boats can be booked so 24 can dive at same time.

* Both Skippers experienced with a vast knowledge of the area. The website below is my old site but it has contact details etc. New website will be divestabbs.co.uk but it wont be ready for a few days.

* Webwww.felixcharters.co.uk or call Paul Crowe on:

TEL: 01890 - 771945
MOB: 07710 - 961050 or
TEL: 01890 - 771412 for Alistair Crowe.

* Easter still available!!!!

[gunsentry]

Thanks Alistair.

Will make some bookings with you for the Easter break.

Gary - East Lothian Divers. http://www.eastlothiandivers.org.uk

[will]

Thanks, will be keen on that. Have you any idea what the weather is doing this weekend, or at least where I can find out?

Are you still about this weekend Gunsentry?

Will

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by TOPLINE

* Loads of space available most weekends, starting Easter 05 aboard Topline and Lazy-g-Diver at Stabbs.

* Both boats licenced for 12 divers, both boats can be booked so 24 can dive at same time.

* Both Skippers experienced with a vast knowledge of the area.

* Website www.divestabbs.com or call Paul Crowe on:

TEL: 01890 - 771945
MOB: 07710 - 961050 or
TEL: 01890 - 771412 for Alistair Crowe.

* Easter still available!!!!

Can't access the links on the webpage and the URL changes to http://www.divestabbs.com/?yourbanned=yesyou when I try - ooh fancy being banned from a site I've never even visited before lol

[gunsentry]

Originally Posted by will

Thanks, will be keen on that. Have you any idea what the weather is doing this weekend, or at least where I can find out?

Are you still about this weekend Gunsentry?

Will

Hi Will,

I can dive most weekends.

I am based near Edinburgh.

Cheers,

Gary.

[And]

Hi

What kind of dives are there in the 50 mtr range from St Abbs? Is there anything worth doing?

Davey Willo and I are thinking of doing some this year if possible.

Andy

[gunsentry]

Originally Posted by And

Hi

What kind of dives are there in the 50 mtr range from St Abbs? Is there anything worth doing?

Davey Willo and I are thinking of doing some this year if possible.

Andy

Peter and Billy will take you out to some of the deeper wrecks.

Best to call them up to discuss and make arrangements as this will mean only one outing for the skipper taking the charter instead of the usual 3-4 they can do within the sport diver range.

See bottom of post for nice challanging wreck


However further up the East coast you can access some nice wrecks from Dunbar:-

UE-77:
Submarine U77 was a Class: UE, Type: Ocean going mine-laying submarine one of ten commissioned.
Ordered on 9th March 1915 and was launched on 9th January, 1916 from shipyard Vulcan, Hamburg (Werk 59).
She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 10th march 1916 to the I Flotilla and commanded by Erich Günze from 10th March 1916 until sunk 7th July 1916.
Displacing some 832 tons, U77 had a range of 8,000 nautical miles and a surface speed of 10.6 knots (submerged 7.9).
Her armaments included - 34 UE150 type mines, one fore and one aft torpedo tubes, four 50cm torpedoes and a 8.8cm mounted gun on her deck. She had a crew compliment of 33 officers\seamen.
U77 was sunk on 7th July 1916 - 3.5 miles north of Dunbar, Scotland in position 56 04N, 02 30W.
Most likely from the explosion of one of her own mines. ... 33 dead (all hands lost). The wreck should to be treated as a war grave.
The wreck was located and identified by East Lothian Divers, James Love, Gary Paterson and Dave Smith.
She lies in 40-45m of water depending on the state of the tide, her bows raised to an angle of about 30*. Her stern is either buried in the mud or has been dispersed.
The wreck sinks into the silt just aft of her deck gun, where the rotten planking of her raised walkway can be seen, and a big conger lives. You can see the eel's entire length through the gaps in the planking, just aft of the conning tower with its two periscopes.
Covered in orange and white plumose anemones, this makes a dramatic scene backlit by the green water. Moving further towards the bow, you pass locked hatches and raised deck-planking that shelters many large fish.
The bow, with its hydroplanes each side, lies proud of the seabed, forming a recess in which a sizeable ling hides.
On the port side an anchor winch and the remains of a single torpedo tube can be seen.
The wreck is fairly small, which means she can be explored easily in one dive but also makes her hard to find.

The stern is still to be found - There is a challenge for someone...

Cyclops:
This 180ft dredger sank in heavy seas in 1924 on its way to be scrapped. She is lying upside down but is fairly intact in approximately 45m. There can be strong currents and it can be very dark. The fish life includes conger, cod, ling and large numbers of bib which are black and white striped. Discovered in 1990 by Dave Smith.

AVONDALEPARK….57m
This Canadian Liberty ship was sunk the day after WW2 ended by a U-boat, which had not received notification. Lying 2miles South of The Isle of May in the Firth of Forth she lies with a list to port.



Or if you really want to do something very special:-

HMS PATHFINDER Light Cruser (1904). 2,940 tons. Guns: 9 x 4 in. Torpedoed by German Submarine U 21, off St. Abb's Head, East Coast of Scotland, 5th September, 1914

She is in about 80 meters of water and not many people have dived on her. Lats and longs available from Skippers.

Regards,

Gary.

[And]

Thanks Gary, theres some to look at there

Perhaps a few midweek jaunts are possible so the skippers won't be busy anyway.

Andy

[andy b]

Andy, get yourself a copy of Shipwrecks of the Forth by Bob Baird.

If you guys are ever up this way doing anything <30m, then please give me a shout!

andy

[Davey Willo]

I can do a few midweek evevnts if its gets us on some of them there wrecks Andy.

Is there anyone else on YD who might be up for a midweek deep dive or two out of Abbs??

Lets see a show of hands and I'll contact Billy or Peter and see whats on offer