Scapa Gig One MV Invincible... And it was so....

[Gary K]

Great video The shot is horizontal at one point ... was WWD on the trip

oi, I resent that remark

you go diving, you make 1 mistake just moving the shot down to 30m and everyone starts making comments, bugger the lot of you

[Donal]

Mark, you have to have the codec installed to view it... It should work after that

http://download.divx.com/divx/DivXPlay.exe

Unable to render video DX50 decompresor not found

Hey fantastic picks Lou. I would have greened you for them but I was guilty of a premature greening for an earlier post so it wouldent let me

Cracking thread all. I have realy enjoyed it.

ATB

Mark Chase

[AirAssisted]

oi, I resemble that remark

you go diving, you make 1 mistake just moving the shot down to 30m and everyone starts making comments, bugger the lot of you

LMAO! incomming green!

[Donal]

You'd have thought so alright... however those two had issues before they ever got in the water...

Excellent video Donal, although it does look like the raptures of the deep got hold of a couple of people on that one!!!!!

[AirAssisted]

A few photos.....

Caroline catches the very moment my torch goes bang.....

Halcyon torch £££
Trip to Scapa ££
That picture ... priceless

[AirAssisted]

Excellent video Donal, although it does look like the raptures of the deep got hold of a couple of people on that one!!!!!

Oh no, not the .. RAAAAAPTURES OF THE DEEEEEEP

[Lou]

Halcyon torch £££
Trip to Scapa ££
That picture ... priceless

Hmmm, yes, very funny indeed.

The funniest thing is the photo before that on the card - exactly the same but of me shining the Halcyon into that hole....taken 15 seconds earlier. A shame C didn't use Mark's auto-drive shooting technique there.....the one later would have been of interesting hand signals!

[Gizmo]

Thursday 11th August 2005

Dive 1 SMS Brummer Max Depth 33.4m Bottom Time 35 mins Run time 59mins

Today was the second of the three light cruisers. Skipper enjoyed keeping us in suspense until we got on site as to which of the cruisers we were doing but gave us the briefing we needed as we sat there kitted and ready to go. Shot is midships, above the bridge and the armoured conning tower and the midships gun. Keep the wreck on the left and you’ll head to the bow, on the right and you will head for the stern.
In we went and straight down. We were on perfect slack so the shot sat in the water vertical, we left the shot as it was covered in little pipe fish curled around it and free descended onto the wreck, over the side and directly onto the midships gun.
From the gun we dropped towards the seabed met up with the two fellas in the picture

and moved ahead towards the bow, Ian found an entry at the base of the wreck into the bow section but I was having a particularly non wreck entry moment and couldn’t seem to get the angle to go in, so backed away and moved forward of the bow and entered along the broken section there. We carried on back then half way back to the midships gun through the broken hull of the wreck, finding a hatch just before the gun to exit the wreck and continue on past the bridge and the armoured conning tower,I went under whilst Ian went over.

We made our way to the stern where we came across the stern guns. One out in the open , the other tucked away under a fallen plate of armour. As the divernet wreck tour reports the stern is more broken up than the bow and is covered in debris. There was no mistake there. It did mean lots of open areas to explore. The protruding mast along the seabed gave us an indication of where we were.
As the we reached the stern we turned again towards the bow and headed up and over onto the shallowest sections of the wreck. As Ian prepared for bagging off, I played with a particularly audacious crab sat bold as brass on top of the wreck.


As Juz reported later on the boat, this wreck was the place for loved up crabs, they were everywhere.

A nice steady ascent and uneventful stops meant a total run time of 59minutes.


Back onto the boat and the first six were called for breakfast.


Dive 2 The Bottle run. Max Depth 18m 58 mins.

The bottle run was suggested by Juz and backed up by Beanie who have both done this dive before albeit a few years ago.
Skipper put us in with a very slow current meaning a gentle drift over the seabed hunting and scavenging for bottles thrown off from years of boat traffic through the flow. Also it was good scallop hunting ground. This ended up being a really enjoyable scout around, we got some decent scallops which Fiona, Skippers wife showed us how to open and cook , very good. Also we acquired throughout the group a couple of really nice bottles.
The bottle run ended up being more of a seabed dive then bottles but I have never seen so many hermit & other types of crabs. Some of them rather feisty.

[Lou]

Ok, Mr Gizmo and I have had a little "pm exchange" during which he accused Caroline and I of poor navigation after we shot past thte turn to Inverness and were caught by the Gizbus trying to sneak back onto the right road

Here is the rest of the exchange.....I think I win with my final point

Originally Posted by Lou:

Hah! That wasn't bad navigation, that was too much singing! We were going for it, karaoke stlyleee, to a CD and missed the junction as we whizzed past it. Had to go about 100m down the road to find a drvieway to turn around in - then you slowcoaches got in front of us
Lou

Originally Posted by Gizmo:
Right you, I think that is an all out declaration of war!!!!!! Slow coaches, I think you will find I let you pass on that Junction, reckless bit of driving if you ask me We were right behind you till Inverness!!!! Then we stopped to give Juz his bottles!!!!

Originally Posted by Lou:
Only kept up because everyone I overtook gave in and pulled off to let you past. I softened them up and you took advantage.

Anyway, you were lost way, way before Inverness ...... could spot the Gizbus bouncing around in the rearview a mile off...

Actually, we saw Matt and Ian on the side of the road at Perth Services. We had pulled over and had a spot of tea and filled the car at the services before that. They were staring up the road and we did wonder if you had dumped them off to hitch home. Needless to say we didn't stop

[Gizmo]

Ok, Mr Gizmo and I have had a little "pm exchange" during which he accused Caroline and I of poor navigation after we shot past thte turn to Inverness and were caught by the Gizbus trying to sneak back onto the right road

Here is the rest of the exchange.....I think I win with my final point

PMSL!!!

Lesson learned - don't argue with a woman regarding directions Although it is fairly difficult to get lost......... Out of Scrabster take the only road to Thurso, out of Thurso turn left and follow the A9 towards Inverness until it stops...........