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Old 17-03-08, 08:54 PM
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Cool Happy Monday - DUE dive the Latone? off of Folkstone
After some debate yesterday about the weather we decided to head out of Dover still today, but not to cross the channel and do our original target the Cruiser HMS Hermes off of Calais.

Meeting up in Dover there were 11 of us on the boat and after a bit of debating we opted to dive the Latona off of Folkstone unless the viz looked bad, when we would push further out.

On site the water looked OK and Dave soon had the shot in, we also had slack at least 40 min early. So we quickly started getting kitted up and in. The sea was quite calm this close to shore as it was a Northerly but we could see the fishing boats staying inshore to avoid the lumpy conditions mid channel.

I was taking Trebor for a DL Practical Lesson/Demo of Dive Leading, so we were a bit slow, getting in last. Jumping in it was a balmy 8 degrees, there was a bit of current and my suit was leaking in all the normal places and i had a quick freeflow to sort out.

Our descent was slow as i emphasized how to look after an inexperienced Ocean Diver and we passed into the gloom to hit the wreck at about 25m, we had about 2m of viz and after tieing off we crossed this quite narrow wreck away from the majority of other lines.

The viz was better away from the shot improving to a dark 3m or so. This wreck is an early model of steamship which was also fully rigged for sail, it is very intact with the bow buried in a sandbank and as far as we know the bell is still there somewhere

We thought we were heading for the bow, but after a while the curve of the stern appeared so we turned around and retraced our route, part way back bumping into Paul S who had managed to get his contents gage stuck out of each. I also managed to drop my reel over the side of the wreck, but we were able to carry along to my last tie off where i recovered it.

Moving along we soon came to the more broken up bow area, after a quick Bell search we headed back to the shot where i disconnected my line and asked Rob if he was OK, he then blinded me with his torch and i fumbled around in the 1m or so of viz looking for the shot line

So up we went for the 7 mins of deco and safety stop to surface on 45 min with blue hands and about a pint of seawater in the right boot of my drysuit

Don't know why we call the wreck the Latona as this apparently sunk off of Wolf Rock, however she does look a lot like her on the right in this picture under an earlier name:-

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Old 17-03-08, 09:17 PM
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excellent report mate, and don't worry about the suit leak I'm sure it's got a few years left in it yet

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Old 17-03-08, 09:36 PM
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Should have said from YD we had:-

Me Trebor, Dovershark, Madscuba, Nigel Ingram and Slippery Peter Woolmer.

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nice report mate, I'm looking forward to seadiving again!
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what you doing at the weekend then Dude, shopping with the Dudess?
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what you doing at the weekend then Dude, shopping with the Dudess?
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what you doing at the weekend then Dude, shopping with the Dudess?
l shall be starting to renovate a property that l've bought to rent

My diving will be limited for the next month or so.


Anyhow, you all know that the weather will be crapolar (tm) because this is the first easter l won't be at dover since we started doing it and it will be the first time it will be canned. Well some of it.
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Don't know why we call the wreck the Latona as this apparently sunk off of Wolf Rock, however she does look a lot like her on the right in this picture under an earlier name:-
The one that sunk off Wolf rock was a steamer. Out of interest, is "your" Latone a sailing ship or steamer?
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