A wreck diving proposal

[big_si]

I'd be interested in some of these trips. Any depth is fine for me.

Show off!

[pieater]

I'm stuck to 40mish for a little while so 40 for me

Well somebody will have to keep you company / in spares / alive.

How's MOD1 going?

I reckon they should wait till the water is 4 degrees to make you do the mask off stuff. "cos I know you like that sort of thing

[MaryS]

Yeah, you've got to watch that John bloke....He's right dodgy fella

Tell me about it, he lent me a non-working computer for last Fri's dive!

[Sparky750]

Well somebody will have to keep you company / in spares / alive.

How's MOD1 going?

I reckon they should wait till the water is 4 degrees to make you do the mask off stuff. "cos I know you like that sort of thing

I've convinced myself he's forgotten about that bit because i'm lucky like that (i fecking wish) 10 degrees for my slim frame is the same as 4 degrees for your blubber other than that it's going slowly buoyancy of a brick though

[The Duck]

I'm happy to dive almost anything though there's quite a lot of shallow stuff to be going on with in the Lulworth bay area.

Going around the Bill can get a bit deeper but still loads of stuff 45m & shallower. However the problem with going round the Bill is the weather - it may be fine on the far side but getting there though the races can be rough in winter.

[IanDennis]

Steve

Happy with any depth

(I'll even volunteer to buddy up with Mr Payne )

[HP]

Only if we can take a pony?

[Diving Dude]

The only diving l've been doing recently is Wrayspuddle so l put 0-10 mtrs

After l'd voted l realised it was multiple choice, but by then it was too late, otherwise l may have been adventurous and voted 10-20m

[stevechesh]

well, what a busy old day we've had. . .


The Plan

Spent most of the day looking at charts, computers and hydrographic reports in the Aqua Hotel, while they served us lots of coffee and sausage and egg butties!

We have a very loose plan and a long list of marks to look at. The wrecks range from sailing ships to steamships. 99% are under the 40 metre mark , but there are a few just over. Those trips will be listed separately. . . . Some of the marks are just that...They are marks with no other info. We will endeavour to find out what they are, because they may be nothing. On the positive side, these marks are very close to some known and little dived wrecks, so we should have the option to change plan if they don't look any good on the sounder, time and tide permitting of course.....


Dates


It's late in the year and there are outstanding trips that remain in the diaries. Boats require some routine maintenance and Christmas is just around the corner. With that in mind, it looks like we will kick these trips off in the new year and we will post up some suitable dates in the near future....

It's highly likely i won't be able to make every single trip on every wreck. The skipper has all the marks, so feel free to get together and organise a trip or two if you fancy it, as i'll still be doing some of my deeper trips as well. The marks aren't secret and are available to anyone who wants them. They are in the public domain anyway. If you do organise a trip, all i politely ask is that you gather as much post dive wreck info and let us know about it......

The marks have come from a wide variety of sources, so many thanks to all that have contributed....Smudge, The Duck, June and Glynis at the Hydrographic Office, The RN


Oh, just one more thing. . . . .Does anyone have a sidescan sonar sat in the garage going cheap?.....When i say cheap, i really mean free

[Mark Chase]

No side scan but ill chip in on the cost of hireing one if it will help.


And all depths / distances etc are fine with me but before it all gets a bit too gun ho. Anything past 60 I'd prefer a deco station return to shot dive in the interests of safety.

Id be happy to provide the station.


ATB

Mark