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Most people think deep wreck diving starts when you hit the water… but the reality is very different.
In this video tutorial, I explain step by step exactly what it really takes to plan and execute a deep wreck dive, from the very first idea all the way through to the moment you leave the surface and beyond. This isn’t just about the dive itself, it’s about the months of preparation that make it possible.
I was asked to make this video after a number of comments on the channel, and it’s turned into a full walkthrough of the entire process.
You’ll see how deep dives are built from the ground up, including:
• Choosing the right dates and working around tides
• Securing the right boat and location
• Building a capable dive team
• Planning gas, logistics, and equipment
• Managing risk in challenging tidal waters
• What happens in the final run-up to the dive
• How the dive day actually unfolds
• How we handle multiple days of deep wreck diving and turnaround between dives
Deep wreck diving in UK waters brings its own challenges, especially with tides, visibility, and logistics. This video gives you a realistic, no-nonsense look at how experienced technical divers approach it.
Whether you’re a diver looking to step up to deeper dives, or just interested in what goes on behind the scenes, this will show you the part most people never see.
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Most people think a deep wreck dive
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starts when you hit the water. No, it
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doesn't. It starts months, sometimes a
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year, possibly even more earlier.
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Now, this process, it's something that I
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was asked to explain in one of the
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comments on one of my videos. What I'm
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going to do is is talk you through that
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process that gets you from
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concept all the way through to the
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actual dive taking place and and beyond
0:30
that, actually. And as an extra bonus,
0:32
I'm going to talk to you about how I
0:35
manage multiple days of deep diving. So,
0:38
what that turnaround process in the
0:40
middle looks like. Before we get to
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that, let's go all the way back to the
0:44
beginning. We are considering going on a
0:48
deep wreck dive. Before anything else
0:51
happens, you're going to need to get
0:53
four main things in place. And lots of
0:55
these are tied together, but what you
0:57
need are some dates. You need a boat.
1:02
Tied in with a boat is the location that
1:04
you're going and of course, you need
1:06
some divers.
1:08
Typically, whoever is organizing the
1:10
thing will start off. They'll identify
1:12
some dates and normally those will be on
1:16
neap tides. So, when they the tidal flow
1:19
is at its least,
1:21
they'll then speak to the skipper of a
1:23
boat and together they will agree the
1:26
location and possibly even start
1:29
thinking about targets at that point,
1:31
but but that is quite unusual. Once the
1:33
dates, the boat and the location have
1:35
been sorted out, the organizer will try
1:38
and arrange to get some divers.
1:41
12 months is kind of what people often
1:44
need in order to get their diaries
1:46
aligned cuz everyone everyone's got
1:48
families and work and all those sorts of
1:50
things and normally a deep dive is a
1:53
fairly significant commitment. So,
1:55
people will need to travel and
1:57
potentially accommodation and all that
2:00
kind of stuff.
2:01
12-month point, there will be a boat, a
2:05
location, some divers, and obviously
2:09
those are all tied in with the dates.
2:10
Those things will be arranged, and then
2:12
typically nothing will happen for quite
2:15
a long time. The next thing that will
2:18
happen is probably about a month out,
2:21
but it might be less, might be a bit
2:22
more. Somebody will create a WhatsApp
2:25
group. The organizer normally will
2:27
create the WhatsApp group, and that is
2:30
the kind of key reminder to everyone
2:32
almost that the thing is going to
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happen. So, on the WhatsApp group will
2:35
be the organizer, the divers, and
2:38
sometimes the skipper depending on how
2:41
the trip is being run and those kind of
2:43
things.
2:44
And that is the moment that all the
2:45
logistics will get sorted out. If
2:47
accommodation's needed, if additional
2:51
facilities such as compressors and those
2:53
sorts of things are needed, that's kind
2:55
of the point at which that will all get
2:57
sort of put together.
2:59
The other kind of key thing that will be
3:00
identified at this point is probably the
3:03
depth range that you're going to. Is it
3:05
120 m? Is it 100? Is it 80? Because that
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depth decision will allow people to
3:12
start thinking about their own personal
3:14
arrangements for bailout cylinders, for
3:17
dive gas, but also for the team stuff as
3:20
well. Many people will know that on the
3:23
dives that we do, we don't necessarily
3:26
have enough gas to get us up from the
3:28
dive, so there will be a requirement for
3:31
a bailout system on the boat. Sometimes
3:35
the boat will provide that. If we dive
3:37
within Deep Blue out of Plymouth, they
3:38
normally provide that. If I'm diving on
3:40
something like Darkstar, then that
3:43
there's normally a way that that gets
3:45
sort of organized, but sometimes people
3:47
will need to contribute to that. So, in
3:50
the WhatsApp discussion, there'll be
3:51
something like I've got this cylinder,
3:53
has anybody got a 50%? Has anybody got a
3:56
100%? Whatever whatever it is. So, at
3:59
about that month point on the WhatsApp
4:01
group, you're going to get all the
4:03
logistics sorted out and you're going to
4:06
have a rough idea what depth that you're
4:08
going to. And pretty much at that point,
4:11
you're never going to go deeper than
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that depth. You may end up going
4:14
shallower depending on the weather, but
4:16
we'll kind of come back to that in a
4:18
moment because that process starts to
4:21
take place at about the one week point.
4:25
Everybody's going to be looking at the
4:26
weather, mainly obviously the skipper
4:28
and the organizer and they're going to
4:30
be speaking to each other and going to
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be speaking about targets. If there was
4:35
a specific target that the the dive was
4:38
aimed for, then obviously that would be
4:40
the priority. But what quite often
4:42
happens is there's a there's a kind of
4:46
aim, an aspiration and that's if the
4:48
weather is perfect. But if the weather
4:50
is is not good, then often there's kind
4:53
of shallower or things closer in that
4:56
you can go to. A bit of a word about how
4:58
targets are selected. Something that
5:00
people often don't realize is how many
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shipwrecks there are around the British
5:06
Isles and how many of them are in a
5:08
really good range for technical diving.
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Take you lucky in the area that I dive
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in mainly which is the southwest of the
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country. We have have two coasts, the
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north and the south coast. Both of them
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extremely busy during both World Wars
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and huge amount of shipwrecks there.
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Lots of them have never been dived.
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Lots of them have never been identified.
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And for that depth range kind of 60 to
5:36
120 m, there are more shipwrecks than I
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will ever be able to dive in my life.
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So, it's absolutely fantastic. But the
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problem with choice is you then have to
5:47
narrow them down. The skipper and the
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the guy who's organizing the the trip
5:53
will go through that process and they
5:55
will decide what floats their boat. Are
5:58
they interested in doing a big wreck, a
6:00
small wreck? Are they interested in
6:02
doing something somebody's dived before?
6:04
Are they interested in doing something
6:06
new? And they will look through the
6:09
available data on a fantastic website
6:12
called wrecksite.eu.
6:14
And on that basis, they will choose a
6:17
target.
6:18
They will share that with the rest of
6:20
the group, but ultimately, the decision
6:23
comes down to them. And a lot of it is
6:25
just on what do you what do you fancy
6:28
doing? At about the two to three day
6:31
points, that is when the weather call is
6:34
normally going to be made. Tying with
6:36
the weather call is the decision about
6:39
where you're going to go. And once the
6:41
skipper and the organizer have agreed
6:44
the targets, then the next thing that
6:46
will come out of that is a a ropes off
6:49
time, the moment when the boat leaves
6:52
the dock. And once you have a ropes off
6:54
time, a whole load of stuff falls out of
6:56
that as well. You can sort out your
6:57
transport arrangements, for instance, um
7:00
because you know you're going to need to
7:01
be there about an hour before ropes off
7:03
normally to load your gear up and do
7:05
your final checks and everything. So,
7:06
you can kind of just start working back.
7:09
And that is the information you will
7:10
have typically two to three days before
7:13
a a dive takes place. For instance, if
7:16
we're diving in Plymouth, normally and
7:19
we're we're going out on a Saturday,
7:20
normally the decision on the location
7:23
and the weather will be made on Thursday
7:27
evening, normally about 6:00. That gives
7:30
basically the next day, the Friday for
7:32
me. That's when I build all my gear, get
7:35
it all together, make sure I've got the
7:37
my
7:38
bailout cylinders are all built, all my
7:41
gear is loaded in in my van. So, the
7:43
night before, I've basically got all my
7:46
stuff sorted.
7:48
Typically, any uh trip that goes out a
7:51
long way, you're going to be leaving
7:53
relatively early in the morning, and
7:55
you're coming back relatively late at
7:56
night because the distances involved
7:58
with these things just mean that there's
8:01
no other way of doing it.
8:03
Then, that comes to the actual day of
8:05
the dive itself. Whatever time you get
8:07
up in the morning, get up, sort yourself
8:09
out in terms of breakfast and all those
8:11
kind of things. And then, me, I aim to
8:14
arrive at the boat about an hour before
8:16
ropes off. And that's kind of standard,
8:18
lots of other people do the same thing
8:20
as well. So, we all get there, all
8:21
unload our gear, get it on the boat, and
8:24
we'll normally have agreed who's diving
8:27
with whom, and probably some of the the
8:30
roles that the people do as well in
8:33
terms of who's going in first, who is
8:36
tying in, and who is
8:38
putting in the lazy, and when the lazy
8:40
shot is going in. That's what happens on
8:43
the actual day. Before the boat leaves,
8:46
I normally do a final check. So, I turn
8:48
on my unit, I check the contents of the
8:50
cylinders. I just make sure that, you
8:53
know, have that final check. Have I got
8:54
my drysuit? Have I got my fins, my mask?
8:58
Does my scooter work? All of that kind
9:00
of stuff. So, once all the gear is on
9:02
the boat, the skipper will do a final
9:05
check before ropes off, make sure he's
9:08
got everybody, he's got everyone's got
9:10
all their gear, and then off we will go.
9:15
Typically, for most of the dives that we
9:17
do, the journey out will be several
9:20
hours. The aim will be to get us onto
9:22
site about an hour before slack water.
9:26
That hour is really quite useful because
9:29
it allows the skipper to make sure that
9:31
they can find the wreck. It gives a
9:33
skipper time to get a shot line, which
9:35
is a rope from the surface to the wreck
9:38
onto it, and that's how we're going to
9:40
descend down, and that's how we're going
9:42
to get on the wreck. Different skippers
9:44
have slightly different techniques for
9:46
for doing that, but the kind of people
9:48
that we go out with,
9:50
whatever their technique is, they're all
9:52
pretty good. So, the the hours or the
9:55
several hour journey out, what happens
9:57
during that period? Well, really not
9:59
very much. Typically, you've got a
10:02
period of time till you lose your mobile
10:04
phone signal, so people will be doing
10:05
all their normal stuff on the on their
10:07
phones, and then after that, lots of
10:10
people will go to sleep, or people will
10:11
just sit in the cabin and chat, and
10:13
clearly will tell lots of stories, you
10:16
know, mainly diving stories or whatever.
10:18
The great thing about arriving on site
10:20
about an hour before you need to get in
10:22
the water, is that also means that
10:24
people don't need to be getting into
10:25
their undersuits, don't need to be
10:27
getting into their drysuits, until we're
10:29
actually on the on the site, because
10:31
getting changed while the boat is
10:33
underway,
10:35
it it's it's doable, but it's a bit of a
10:37
pain. It's not the nicest uh thing in
10:39
the world. We will arrive on site, the
10:42
engines will slow down, the skipper will
10:44
go through the process of finding the
10:46
wreck and getting a shot line onto it.
10:48
Concurrently, while that is happening,
10:50
the team on the boat will be getting
10:53
into their undersuits first of all, then
10:54
getting into their drysuits. It's also
10:57
an opportunity to go to the toilet for
10:58
the last time, and if you want to, to
11:01
have maybe something to eat or something
11:03
to drink. Then, we're into the process
11:05
of getting kitted up. A really important
11:08
thing for us, because we dive in tidal
11:11
waters,
11:12
getting in on slack is super important.
11:16
So, what that actually means is that all
11:18
the divers need to be ready at the same
11:21
time
11:22
for for when the slack water occurs. We
11:25
are going to be going in within a very
11:28
short period of time. Typically, if
11:30
you've got 10 divers on the boat, it
11:32
will be 15 minutes from the first diver
11:35
getting in the water to the last diver
11:37
getting in the water and in fact often
11:39
much quicker than that. We're on the
11:41
site, the skipper has got the shot line
11:44
on the wreck. Now typically what will
11:46
happen is two divers will go in and
11:48
their job is really twofold. The first
11:52
thing is to check that the shot is on
11:53
the wreck and the second thing is if it
11:56
is to tie in using a small piece of
11:59
string that we call a waster. It's a
12:01
waster because it's going to be wasted,
12:03
it's going to be ripped when the the
12:06
skipper recovers the shot line. So they
12:08
will go down and all being well, they
12:10
will put that in.
12:12
Once the waster is in and the shot line
12:14
is on the wreck, they will send up a
12:16
small buoy called a pill. The pill will
12:20
come up to the surface, it's made of
12:22
something that doesn't crush and is
12:24
buoyant. So it will come up to surface,
12:27
everybody on the on the surface will be
12:28
ready and then we will all go in
12:31
straight away after that. Now if they
12:33
get down there and the wreck the shot
12:35
isn't on the wreck, essentially they've
12:37
got two things to do. The first thing is
12:39
to try and find the wreck and normally
12:41
they will do that using a distance line.
12:44
They'll attach a distance line to the
12:45
shot, they will do a search either
12:47
follow some drag marks up
12:50
up stream or they will
12:53
and do the circular search and hopefully
12:56
find find the wreck. If they don't find
12:58
the wreck, then they return to the shot
13:01
line and they deploy a delayed SMB and
13:03
the delayed SMB is the sign to the
13:05
skipper that the the shot isn't on it
13:09
and then once they're clear, they will
13:11
normally the skipper would normally
13:13
recover the shot and then there is a
13:15
really important decision about what
13:16
happens, whether you try and reshot it
13:19
or whether you bought the dive. Now I'm
13:21
really pleased to say the skippers we
13:23
work with are very very good. So it's
13:26
extremely unusual for us to miss a miss
13:30
a wreck. So, once the pillars come up,
13:32
the next thing that is going to happen
13:34
is all the rest of the divers get in.
13:37
And once again, they will go in pairs.
13:40
The first pair normally goes in with the
13:42
lazy shot system.
13:44
They will take it with them. They will
13:46
clip it on the main shot line. They will
13:49
take it down to the shot line at
13:51
whatever depth it's set for, which is
13:53
normally
13:54
on a 100 m dive would normally be about
13:56
40 or 45 m. They will have a prusik
13:59
loop. They will attach that to the shot
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line, and then they will put the the
14:03
lazy shot onto that. And the lazy shot
14:06
system is is then ready to go. The first
14:08
pair will already have left their tags
14:11
on the lazy shot. The second pair will
14:13
have their tags on the lazy shot.
14:16
And then they will go down to the
14:17
bottom. The second pair will have their
14:20
tags on the lazy shot. And then they
14:22
will descend on down to the bottom. At
14:24
the bottom, the first pair will have
14:26
left their strobes. The second pair will
14:29
then leave their strobes, and they will
14:30
go off and do the dive.
14:32
Other divers, as they come down, will
14:35
attach their tags to the lazy shot.
14:38
They will attach their strobes at the
14:41
bottom, and then they will go off and do
14:43
their dive. A really important part of
14:46
our system is divers have to get back to
14:48
the shot.
14:50
If the visibility is poor when they get
14:52
down there, then people may use a
14:54
distance line and reel off, and then
14:57
reel back. It's one of the things that
14:58
sometimes surprises people is how
15:01
effective this system is. The people
15:03
that we dive with are very good at
15:05
getting back to shots. It's extremely
15:08
unusual for for that not to happen. Once
15:10
divers come back to the shot, in turn,
15:13
they will take their strobe off the
15:14
bottom, and they will ascend up to the
15:16
lazy shot, unclip their tag, they'll
15:19
take it away, and then they will go up
15:21
the lazy shots and they will start doing
15:24
their decompression.
15:26
The last person to the get to the lazy
15:28
shots will remove their tag and they
15:31
will then release the lazy shot. So, the
15:33
lazy shot will leave the main shot and
15:35
start floating off in the currents.
15:38
And once again, this is a really
15:40
important thing for us. We don't want to
15:42
decompress while we're we're hanging on
15:44
for grim death. And the tidal window of
15:47
the slack window
15:49
for most of the dives that we do means
15:51
that we will be on the bottom during
15:53
slack. We will probably start the first
15:56
bit of our decompression in slack, but
15:58
then the current will pick up and it
15:59
will move us. And we can end up several
16:02
miles away. So, once a lazy shot has
16:05
been released the skipper will come back
16:08
to the the main shot line and they will
16:10
recover the main shot line. The small
16:13
piece of string at the bottom
16:15
isn't enough to hold against the weight
16:17
of the
16:18
boat pulling it up, so that will break.
16:20
So, the shot line will come back on the
16:21
boat and then the skipper will follow
16:24
the lazy shot as the divers do their
16:27
decompression.
16:29
And people will move up at different
16:30
levels on the decompression. And once
16:33
their decompression is clear, they will
16:35
ascend up to the surface and get back on
16:37
the boat.
16:39
Sometimes we will have a trapeze system
16:42
in there. Normally a single bar at 6 m.
16:46
Sometimes there's another bar at 9 m,
16:48
but that's relatively unusual for most
16:50
of the teams that I dive with.
16:52
If we don't have a decompression
16:55
trapeze, what will often happen
16:58
is it gets really crowded on the line.
17:00
People will will like to hold on. So,
17:03
some people will either decompress just
17:05
off to the side or what I like to do is
17:08
put up my delayed SMB and then I will
17:11
decompress within sight of the lazy
17:13
shot, but hanging on my delayed SMB. And
17:16
it just makes it easier.
17:19
It's also, I think, quite nice for the
17:20
skipper as well if everybody puts up a
17:22
delayed SMB because they can count the
17:24
number of delayed SMBs. They know that
17:26
all their divers aren't on the on the on
17:29
the wreck.
17:31
So, what happens if somebody doesn't get
17:32
back to the lazy shot? Well, what there
17:35
normally is is a another break that's
17:38
closer to, say, the 12 m point, that
17:41
kind of level.
17:42
By the time
17:44
everybody has got there,
17:46
you will know that you've got a missing
17:47
diver who hasn't made it back to the
17:49
lazy shot because you can look down the
17:50
line, you'll be able to see 10 m, 15 m
17:53
down the line, and if there's no diver
17:55
there, you know they haven't made it
17:57
back. At that point, there's nothing you
18:00
can do other than to cut the line or to
18:03
release the quick release mechanism, and
18:04
then the lazy shot will float off. The
18:07
other diver or divers,
18:10
they will have realized a long, long
18:12
time before that that they haven't got
18:13
back to the lazy shot. They will need to
18:15
put up a delayed SMB from the from the
18:18
wreck, and the boat will have seen that
18:20
because they'll have seen a delayed SMB
18:22
come up. They'll seen the lazy shot not
18:24
moving, and they will see the the
18:26
delayed SMB start to move as the current
18:28
picks up, and then at some point the
18:30
lazy shot will start moving as well.
18:32
And the skipper then has the rather
18:34
tricky job of trying to keep both of
18:37
those things in their sight. They need
18:38
to keep the lazy shot system, and they
18:41
need to keep the
18:42
delayed SMB.
18:43
That's not ideal for them, but this is
18:46
an emergency procedure.
18:48
Once everyone has completed their
18:50
decompression, they will come up, and
18:52
sometimes people will come up as as
18:54
buddy pairs, but more often than not,
18:56
people just wait until their own
18:58
decompression is cleared. They're
19:00
they're happy to surface, and then they
19:02
will come up. Inevitably, there will end
19:04
up being one diver in the water, but
19:06
they will be at 3 or 6 m. The second to
19:09
last person to go will go and confirm
19:11
they're okay, everything is fine,
19:14
which which obviously it will be, then
19:15
they'll confirm they're happy for them
19:16
to go. Yes, they'll find out how much
19:19
deco they've got left and and typically
19:21
it will only be a few minutes, five,
19:24
maybe 10 minutes absolute maximum.
19:26
They'll come back on the boat with that
19:27
information, so everybody knows how long
19:29
that person has got to do. Obviously the
19:31
person in the water's still got the
19:32
bailout and and all that kind of stuff.
19:34
It's just one of those things you could
19:35
say ah, they should stay together and
19:38
there are arguments for that. By the
19:39
time you get to three or six meters,
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frankly,
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there's not much in the way of risk. So,
19:45
they will everyone will get out get back
19:47
on the boat. Once everybody's back on
19:49
the boat, obviously all the kit will
19:51
come off, everybody will get out the dry
19:53
suits, the skipper will recover the lazy
19:56
shot system, there'll be a big load of
19:58
chat on the boat about what happened,
20:00
yeah, anything interesting that was seen
20:02
and all those kind of things. And then
20:04
you will start to motor back in and it's
20:06
going to be pretty much the same amount
20:08
of time
20:09
back in as it was coming out. That's
20:12
quite a long period of time and
20:13
typically we will have something to eat,
20:16
we will have something to drink, uh
20:18
might have a couple of beers,
20:20
all that kind of stuff and off we off we
20:23
come back in. And while we're coming
20:24
back in, at some point mobile phone
20:26
reception will reappear. Typically
20:29
there'll be a dive the next day and
20:30
there'll be a big discussion about
20:32
what's happening between the uh skipper
20:35
and the organizer. And before we leave
20:37
the boat, everybody will know the kind
20:39
of critical piece of information for the
20:41
next day, how deep it's going to be and
20:43
what the ropes off time are going to be.
20:46
If it's the end of the the dive, then
20:48
clearly when you get back in, you're
20:49
going to have to take all your gear off,
20:52
get it back into your vehicle and get it
20:54
home. But more often than not, you're
20:56
going back for a for a second dive and
20:59
there's some decisions that may that
21:00
need to be made there, of course. So,
21:02
the first one is what you need to do
21:04
about consumables, so uh softner lime,
21:08
O2, diluents, suit gas, batteries,
21:14
all of those kind of things. And
21:16
normally what happens is people take off
21:18
the stuff that needs to come off. So,
21:20
for me, I will typically take off the
21:23
scrubber and the head of my rebreather.
21:26
I'm going to get rid of the scrubber and
21:28
replace it. I will allow the head of my
21:30
rebreather to dry out, which reduces the
21:33
chance of having an issue with uh an
21:36
oxygen cell. If I need to replace my
21:38
oxygen cylinder, I will do that. If I
21:40
need to replace my diluent cylinder, I
21:41
will do that. If I need to charge up my
21:44
suit inflate cylinder, then I will do
21:46
that as well. And the curse of modern
21:48
diving is batteries.
21:51
Typically, I might need to charge up my
21:52
video lights. I might need to charge up
21:54
the batteries on my scooter. I might
21:56
need to charge up the batteries on my
21:58
cameras, my video cameras. So, all of
22:01
that stuff will come off with me. The
22:03
most of my diving gear will stay on the
22:04
boat. My rebreather will stay on my boat
22:07
on the boat. My bailout cylinders
22:09
probably will stay on the boat. Dry
22:11
suit, fins, mask, body of my scooter,
22:14
all of those things stay on the boat.
22:16
I'm only going to take off the stuff I
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need to do something with. Which of
22:19
course means the next day when I come
22:22
back on, I'm bringing all that stuff
22:24
back on. And therefore, once again, I
22:26
will arrive about an hour before we go
22:28
anywhere, before ropes off, and then I
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will spend that time rebuilding
22:33
everything. And this is
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probably one of those things that some
22:37
people don't like. There are people who
22:39
will take off their complete rebreather
22:42
and build it uh from scratch again at
22:45
home or whatever. I don't do that. I
22:48
will do it on the boat with the
22:50
additional bits and pieces. So, if my if
22:52
I change my lime, I will bring my
22:55
scrubber, I'll bring my head, I'll put
22:57
it all back in the rebreather, I will
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rebuild it all. Ditto, I'll change
23:01
cylinders, all that kind of stuff. But
23:03
then, of course, what's really important
23:05
is once you've done that,
23:07
it is super, super important to check
23:09
that everything works. Turn on your
23:11
unit, calibrate it if required,
23:15
do positive and negative checks because,
23:18
of course, if you don't, then there's a
23:20
there's a potential for getting caught
23:21
out. But But that is what I do. I don't
23:24
take everything off. I keep it on the
23:25
boat, and that's fairly
23:28
normal, I guess I would say on the
23:30
people that I dive with.
23:32
So, that's how I turn around the gear
23:34
for the next for the next day.
23:37
What else is going to happen uh when the
23:39
diving is over? You've got to do all
23:41
your kit admin, so you're going to need
23:42
to wash your gear, you're going to need
23:44
to put it away, you're going to need to
23:45
charge it up, you need to make sure it's
23:48
stored appropriately, whatever else it
23:50
is. But there's all the other sort of
23:51
stuff that you need to do as well. So,
23:52
if we've dived an unknown, what we're
23:55
there's going to be is some research.
23:57
What have we found that would help us
23:59
identify that that ship? Do we
24:03
engine size, number of boilers, length
24:05
of the wreck,
24:07
age of the wreck, unique features, was
24:09
there a gun, what what was the engine
24:12
two or three cylinder, did we find
24:14
anything on there, was there any
24:15
crockery, did we find something like a
24:17
bell or a maker's plate or whatever else
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it is?
24:20
And there's a there's a whole process of
24:22
investigation that's going to take place
24:24
afterwards. And for me,
24:26
and a few of the other people I dive
24:27
with, it's not universal, actually, but
24:29
but quite a few of us we absolutely love
24:31
that research, and we will get online,
24:34
we will try and find out what we can
24:36
about that wreck because the the the
24:38
golden thing is if you can dive an
24:40
unknown wreck, you can put a name to it,
24:43
you can identify it, and therefore, all
24:45
of a sudden, there's all these stories
24:47
that come out. So,
24:49
that for me is is probably nearly the
24:52
last thing that will happen because,
24:54
obviously, for me, the last thing that's
24:56
going to happen is if the dive was good
24:58
enough, and I think it was interesting
25:00
enough, then I'm going to make a video
25:02
about it, and I'm going to put it online
25:04
so I can share it with all of you guys,
25:07
and you can see what we got up to and
25:09
what we found. I kind of hope that that
25:12
makes sense.
25:13
I hope that you've been able to follow
25:15
through what we do. As always, if you
25:18
have any questions on anything I've
25:20
said, then then please stick them in the
25:22
comments, and I will try and pick them
25:25
up either in the comment section or in
25:27
another video.
25:29
But for now, I'm Don Robinson, deep
25:31
wreck diver. I hope you found that
25:33
interesting, and as always, I will look
25:36
forward to seeing you on my next video.
25:38
Thank you.
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