YD Wreck 'Purchase' ??

[Mr T.]

Just feeding on from one of Stevie Walker's earlier comments about going on a 'wreck hunt' and getting marks, hits and finding a new wreck, I've just had an idea, or at least what might pass for it.

Now this may be perceived, as our Jockanese (or, more precisely, our Glasga) contingent might have it as "Sparked out o'wur nut", but can any one make any suggestions (good or bad and based on either 1st-hand experience, hearsay or conjecture) about YD buying its own wreck to dive?

Criteria:

* What would it cost to purchase the beast?
* Where should it reside?
* Does the above matter?
* What are the Lloyds List/Admiralty/MCA/RoW angles that might need covering?
* How deep should it be?
* RIB-able or hard-boat-able distance?
* How fast do you do the Hundred Metres?
* What colour shoud the wreck be?
* Will it go with my wing/dry-bag combo?
* Wreck: Bungied or non-bungied?
* Am I best donning a blind-fold and listening to my 'Dr Hook' albums back-to-back instead?

OK, so I made the last few up  

Is this an idea that can fly? Or am I so far off base that I'm bombing 'Tie Rack' instead of Iraq?

Please fill your boots and hold-forth on your knowledge, experience and opinions. Get in amongst it people.

If it can be done at a resonable cost and 'moderate' logistics, then it's something I think we should consider. If not, hey, we've lost nothing, right?

Dive safe - all.

[Jay]

If you own the wreck then you are responsible for it - if another vessel founders on it, the guess who the insurers will be after?

[Seadart Mark]

Bren.

If yer find one with a sniff of gold/silver, you can count the Seadart boys in.  

We like shiney things.

Serious though... Top idea, and worth looking into.

Off to scan the net for info.

Seadart Bob, you/Ian/Gary gotta have some info on this kinda thing somewhere ?

Cheers

Mark

[Mr T.]

Ah, that old chestnut  

If it's at, say, 30+ metres, and what with most ships' drafts being a lot less than that, then do we still have a shot?

Answers on a postcard to this site, this thread, this posting.

Come on people, you must have an idea?

[Jay]

I vote for "The Good Ship Penis"!!

Seriously, I have a contact with Deep Sea Exploration Plc - will email him when I get a chance to see if he knows of anything off the UK coast

[angleseydiver]

<font color='#000080'>Hi Bren,
The MCA have an &quot;adopt a wreck&quot; scheme on the go- spose details will be on their web-site: www.mcagency.org.uk
Why buy a wreck?
If you did you'd probably have insurers/ blame-claimers etc on your back should anyone injure themselves/die on it.
If you own it you can't stop anyone else from diving it, any cargo would prob have a different owner/s so you'd have difficulties there too.
Better to stick to plunder and declare system
Sorry to put damper on the idea but IMHO it's just not worth it!
   ATB,
     Terry

[Angleseyskipper]

top tip for 2003 if you want new virgin wrecks then ya hairy arsed trawler man is your best friend.
He's out there day in day out dragging the sea bed trying to earn a crust and snagging all those lovely uncharted wrecks with his nets  ,definatley some one to get on your christmas list!

[Mr T.]

Elfyn and Terry,

Roger that guys. So we'll be seeing you soon then, right? &nbsp;

[angleseydiver]

<font color='#000080'>Bren,
May is not a good month generally-plankton through well into June
Vis is spot on now, sunshine, light-breeze - typical, eh!
this weekend!

[Angleseyskipper]

your after the creme de la creme of diving ,a virgin sir,untouched sir ,
oh sir sounds an expensive experience that one sir!