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Finding the 93m DEEP Wreck of the Missing HMS Jason
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Jul 6, 2025
This video shows the discovery of HMS Jason, a Royal Navy ship lost during World War 1 in the Inner Herbides. Hear the firsthand account of this amazing discovery by the #lostinwatersdeep and #gasperados team of underwater explorers. If you'd like more information on HMS Jason then please visit the Lost in Waters Deep website - https://lostinwatersdeep.co.uk/hms-jason.html *Thanks* A huge thanks to Kevin Heath and Steve/Barbara Mortimer for inviting me on the trip. Also my buddy Fran for use of her video footage and Rick Ayrton for use of his pictures! *Support what I Do* If you'd like to support what I do then please consider joining my channel - http://bit.ly/4kMVqCB You also may wish to consider buying me a coffee 👉 https://buymeacoffee.com/d33puk ☕☕☕ *Highlights* 00:00 Media coverage 03:00 Getting in! 06:02 One of the most impressive things I've seen underwater! 13:08 The HMS Jason story 17:00 Arriving at the bottom - FINALLY! 22:00 So much stuff at the stern 25:20 Boxes of Ammo 31:45 Deco profile
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lost but not forgotten the mystery of the ship that sank during the First World War has finally been solved this
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is how the media reported our discovery of HMS Jason in April 2022 it was a Lost
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in Waters Deep project and a magnificent outcome to what was a really interesting
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trip now exactly how interesting it was isn't covered in any of the media stuff
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so you're going to get it firsthand from me it's it's a fantastic story i was so so chuffed to be involved in this
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project it even now 3 years on it still makes me really really proud of what we
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achieved on this trip people have been looking for HMS Jason around the island of Cole in the inner hees for years and
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years without success kevin Hath who runs a lost in waters deep website
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teamed up with Bob Anderson the skipper of MV Casino and together they've been running magnetometers and doing surveys
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in likely areas so when they found a possible target towards the end of 2021
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they were looking for some divers and that's where the Mortimas Steven and Barbs came in so this team planned a a
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quick trip to Scotland to go and check out one of these dive sites and I was lucky enough to be selected to be part
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of the team now the problem with the inner heedes or in fact the outer heedes is that they're a long way from Devon
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which is our normal stomping ground also this was April and that's about as the
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cold as the water gets we're all soft southern folk so going up to Scotland
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and diving uh in these conditions was always going to be particularly challenging for us but the opportunity
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to be involved in a discovery of this magnitude was one that frankly none of us could miss to complicate things
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further we started in Oben and to get to Cole was more than a day steam so we did
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a dive on route overnighted in Toba Mori went out to the Jason stopped in on Cole
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went back to the Jason came back to Tobber one last dive on the way back in
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and then got back to Obin and that was our four days frankly the fact that this happened exactly as we planned it in
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April was pretty close to being a miracle the more astute amongst you will
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soon realize if you haven't already that the set of fins on the left with the yellow gloves that's me so the camera or
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the person that this camera is mounted to is Fran uh she's been in a few of my other videos she's an awesome diver i
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love diving with her but between us we had one stills camera and one video camera so she had the video camera on
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her head i had the uh the stills camera with a second pair in you can see there
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that's uh that's Brian he wasn't diving today i can't remember why but he's obviously running the slate on the boat
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and and here we are this is Fran in the gate uh because she's totally nails and she can do you know pretty much whatever
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she wants she's going to be taking in the lazy shot there we go fran's got it
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gina's quite high off the water but um yeah no messing around there you go uh
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she's in and you can see uh looks it was quite a barmy 15 degrees when we went in
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but that temperature is soon dropping fran has got a low oxygen alarm there i suspect um she just needed to to breathe
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in a bit more and wait for the solenoid to kick off but there you go she's not messing around she's straight on the shot line another thing about Fran
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that's absolutely nails this water is as you can see it's now 10° and uh she's
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wearing uh wet suit gloves so I'm not I'm wearing my beautiful dry gloves because I am um a big worse frankly so
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so anyway there I go i'm going down you can see the lazy shot is already already heading down it's slightly uh it's ended
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up on the back of my gear so I'm just kind of rolling around trying to sort that out which I think I do in a in a
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minute but there we go well it's quite nice actually in a video for a change to see me um you know in the camera rather
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than me taking videos of loads of other people uh no doubt I'll be able to spot all my mistakes and one of the things
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you're going to see in a bit there is an absolute horrendous mistake that I make in a bit so uh you hang on there there's
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also one of the coolest things I've ever seen underwater i did a presentation about this dive a few years ago and uh
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the thing that I I I particularly talked about was was what Fran does in a bit
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when we get down to putting the lazy shot on what we're doing at the moment though is we're doing bubble checks so I'm just having a quick look at her
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she's uh she's had a look at me already so we're kind of uh we're good no no
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bubbles in fact sorry she hasn't had a look at me here she is she's having a look at me and you can see there no horrendous bubbles coming off my gear so
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so we're all good now one of the other interesting things
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about this trip is we were all expecting the dive depth to be 85 m maximum and as
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you'll see when we get down to the bottom it actually turns out to be a bit more than that which was you know we we
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were all a bit nervous about this because it is uh April which is really early in the diving season inverted
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commas but also you know we know it's going to be cold you can see here we're at 12 m it's 9° C it never gets that
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cold in Plymouth and certainly you know that's this is where we're going to be doing our deco stops never gets that
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cold um when we're doing uh when we're doing stops so we are all we've all got
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our extra winter willies on and we're all fully expecting to be uh really
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chilly but in order to kind of mitigate that one of the things that we do is um
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we we actually do quite short run times and you can see the normal deep coat profile at the end of this video so you
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you'll be able to see exactly uh what I did you can also hopefully see that I've got the uh the sheer water overlay on
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the uh on the side here ah now this is my moment of realization is that I basically had one job on this dive which
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was that my job was to bring the pro loop and uh I've forgotten so um
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this is kind of a problem because we know this area is really tidal and if we don't put a proic on then what is going
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to happen is the lazy shot will will ride up and get shallower and shallower and shallower and uh that's not good for
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for for do so we we need a proic loop um I'm kind of looking at Fran fran is the
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sort of person who doesn't doesn't mess around so Fran knows instantly what to do and this is uh there's actually a
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reasonable amount of tide here at the moment and that's why the the lazy shot is up quite high that's why we're both finning what Fran is doing is she's
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pulling out her spool um from from her pocket so that's her spared there you go
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you can see her spool and what she's going to do underwater is make a proic loop which she's going to do in uh
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whatever thickness gloves those are three or five mil thick gloves but they're pretty thick in fact you can see her thumb sticking out of one of them
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that's just how nailed she is so she's dismantling her spare DSMBB system there
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and uh you can see she's let go of the rope because she's let go of the rope obviously the currents pulled her away from the lazy shot so she's spinning
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relatively hard into the current and she is as you can see there is is pulling
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off her um her reel and she's going to uh she's going to make a a pro she's
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asked me for some help she's asked me for some scissors and um I'm kind of looking at her slightly blankly as in
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what on earth are you doing here so um Fran's going to have to sort it all out by herself so I'm I'm particularly
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particularly underperforming here yeah yeah you see me looking up the line you know perhaps praying that somebody's
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going to realize we haven't got a pro and drop it down fran she doesn't mess around she's got her trell out there her
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neck cutter and she is going to be the person who is making uh this proig loop so this is exactly the kind of diver
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that Fran is you know she is totally unperturbed she she copes well with with
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what is actually quite a tricky uh issue and you know I still say this is one of
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the coolest things that I've done underwater which is sorry I've seen done underwater which is you know completely
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unfazed and she makes this pro loop out of bit you know her other bits of diving gear all the while she's swimming in
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this in this quite strong current so um you know there you go here you go my my
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role in this is I hold I hold her spool while she goes and uh you know does does
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the job that I should have done it's uh I I can't say enough how impressive I uh
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I consider this to be so having swam back to the shot line having cut off a
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bit of string from her spool she's now got to tie knots under water wearing I
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think those are 5 mil uh neoprene gloves which which is a sort thing i don't think I could do that on the surface let
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alone trying to do it underwater in the uh you know in way in 9° water uh at 40
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odd meters in a current whilst her useless buddy sits there you know
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looking on his sole contribution to proceedings being to hold a spool but um
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there you go always dive with people better than you that's my uh that's my top tip and there you go you can see she
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has here she has constructed a proc loop and um you know that's that's really
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cool i think um as you would expect once I got to the surface and this uh this
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became common knowledge Fran didn't tell anyone but I did once it got to the surface it became common knowledge uh
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everybody mercilessly and quite rightly abused me for my a for getting to pro
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and b being utterly useless in uh in helping Fran so there you go that was a
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bit of excitement on the way down and for those of you who are who are following the profile you will see that
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that's uh that's what accounts for the kind of the big step almost uh almost on the profile but we have we have sorted
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things out well not quite fran's still got to put all her gear back away so uh she's decided not to mess around with
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the uh with the with the spool so that's gone in her in her string bag i think she's got some video lights in there
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that's uh that's what's in there uh we are we're now carrying on back down again and you can see it's uh it's still
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9° it's starting to get a bit colder but that that current is still there and you can probably see that France she's let
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go again and she's got to swim back onto the shot line which is uh not not the easiest thing in the world so and and I
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don't think we should blame the skipper for necessarily putting us in like this in fact we shouldn't blame the skipper it was simply that uh tides in this area
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are difficult to predict there isn't any particularly good tide tables or anything like that so what we did though
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is this is the first dive that we did on Jason we came back the next day and because we were better informed about
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the tides when we dived it the next day it was uh it was far far more pleasant
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um in terms in terms of current but this was this was our first dive on it and and the other thing of course is we have
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absolutely no idea what to expect all we've seen is that grainy image that you saw at the beginning now it does look
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like there's a boat down there looks like there's that long shin thin shape but we didn't know for certain so it was
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absolutely uh exploratory diving and you've probably heard me say in other
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videos this kind of thing when you have no idea what's on the bottom is uh is really really quite exciting albeit this
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bit here where swimming down the line into current that's uh that's obviously
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quite hard work and you can see as there you can see me there anyway yeah I'm working quite hard to uh to keep moving
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forward and down and one of the other things is there's quite a lot of line on this and that was obviously to make sure
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that it was hooked in into the wreck but because there's quite a lot of line on it that that obviously meant that we
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have to swim you know quite a long way so not only you going down but you're going along as well and you can see that
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in the profile so you can see that probably the descent time is going to be about 10 minutes which is actually
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really long time to get down to uh 90 m obviously we've had all that that faffing around with a prok but quite a
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lot of it is actually just swimming uh swimming along the line as well so divers particularly on deeper stuff you
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either want a scooter to get down as quickly as possible or you want to make sure that the um that the shot line is
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is as kind of there's as little of it as possible so or or it's vertically but this is the kind of worst situation
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where you've got quite a long shot line a bit of current it just becomes really hard uh swimming down you can see here
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we're still um only at at 60 m um and we're coming up to the kind of 9 minute
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point uh Fran's just giving me an okay signal there with the uh with the torch and I think I uh I completely ignore her
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so um I I guess I'm I'm just kind of focusing
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into swimming in this current and getting down so a bit about HMS Jason uh by the time of the First World War so
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this was sunk in 1917 it was it was basically obsolete so what they were doing is they were using it as a mine
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sweeper so along with another um similar similar vessel it basically had a a
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length of cable between it and they were they were towing the the cable up and down uh an area to try and clear the
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channel to make sure there was no mines in it now the Germans in the First World War were really good record keepers and
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this is the record from the German submarine log the uh the KTB as they were known and you can see there that
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that uh the line of mines there putting the line of mines on a modern chart
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that's that red line there and number one on the on there is where the UK
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reckon HMS Jason is number two is where we actually found it which you can see is just inside the line where they
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reckon they'd swept so Jason was uh was really uh unlucky the lucky bit for the
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crew though was because they were with another vessel HMS Cersei the majority of the crew were rescued unfortunately
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uh one body was was recovered and 24 guys were missing so that's really sad and they're all commemorated in uh one
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of the local churches but it you know and and this tragedy is still you know remembered in the local area the other
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thing Cersei was able to do was get a photograph of HMS Jason sinking and as you can see here it sunk uh bow first
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obviously that's where where the mine hit the stern stayed up in the air in the air for a bit and then obviously the
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whole thing headed to the seabed if you look at that photo closely you'll see that the uh the starboard prop is is
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clearly visible and we're going to come back to that later on during the dive at
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this bit of the dive though as you can see we've still not got down to the bottom it's pitch black now that's been
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great obviously I've been able to give you a bit more detail about the uh the sinking and all those kind of things but
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you would at this point 11 minute minutes into the dive you'd have hoping hoped to have been on the bottom for
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quite a while uh obviously where we are now we are just um building a decompression penalty without actually
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doing anything useful we haven't seen the uh seabed the good news though is you can probably just start to see the
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strobes in front of us and that was the uh from the first pair down um so that's
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great apart from this is 85 m this is where we're expecting the seabed to be
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expecting to see the strobes which are clearly quite a long way down further so
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we uh we know that we've we've we've still got further to go and we've been working quite hard for quite a long time
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here so I don't mind uh I don't mind fessing up to being uh you know to be
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really keen to get to the bottom at this point obviously it is that's dangerous as well you know all the time you're
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working hard you're building up carbon dioxide and carbon dioxide is bad for for pretty much any diving reason that
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you care you care to mention uh you can see Fran she's uh she's well prepared
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you've already seen how well prepared she is but she's clearly prepared now so she's got a strobe out she's ready to clip it on and it looks as though we
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might just be able to see some some seabed down there you can see something's reflecting my light which is
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which is great news um she's got a similar strobe to me unlike mine hers has got yellow tape on it so we all do
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that we all mark our strobes in a different way so people uh people don't pinch them but even though we can see
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what potentially is a seabed what we can't see is any metal until now and
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then the moment that that happens that you see metal it is uh that is really
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good news because clearly there is something down here and it's not just a rock cuz that was that was the risk if
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you if you remember all the way back to the side scan there was uh sorry to the the the multi-beam there was two bits
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effectively was a long thin bit and there was a big round bit the big round bit turned out to be a rock and the long
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thin bit was the wreck so and that's the reason nobody had found Jason for so long is because most people when they
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did a survey they spotted the uh spotted the rock and they just thought "Oh this was this was part of the rock." Anyway
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here we are so there you go you can see uh that's Will down uh just on the left he is uh he's just given us a bit of
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useful information and he's told us which way the prop is spinny thing and he's pointed uh off to the right so
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that's really useful already we're able to orientate ourselves on the dive site and military military vessels are always
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always great cuz they're absolutely full of stuff but because they have so much stuff on them it can sometimes be
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confusing trying to figure out exactly uh what is where but the fact is we know
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we know we're now orientated to the wreck so so that's absolutely fantastic and you can see there I am I'm off
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already now one of the things with this is although we've got a camera what we don't actually have is any video lights
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so the dive the video footage of this dive is is not actually that great some
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good news is that Fran is going to get her video lights out in a bit and that will make a real difference first though
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she's doing a bit of a bit of admin you see she's uh her DSMBB that obviously
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she took apart earlier on has come out and she's put it put that in the bag with the spool as well so um you know
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she's just making sure that everything's all sorted but you've also seen there you go she's got uh the video lights out and she's going to hold them in her hand
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now this was round about this time we weren't really doing things properly in terms of or I wasn't really doing things
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properly in terms of videoing and stuff so you can see here she's got she's got a video light in uh in one hand there we
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go i've given her an okay she's given me the okay and there you go she's she's illuminating stuff and actually that's a
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lot better i just wish though that I'd got the the rig that I have now i wish that I had had it for this dive because
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you can see it's absolutely pitch black but actually visibility is quite good and I'd have got much much better
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footage if uh if I'd have had some decent quality video equipment still we live and learn and the good news is at
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least that we do have some uh some video footage and as we're moving along here you can probably see there is just all
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sorts of all sorts of stuff so this is kind of engines um this is you uh
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boilers that kind of stuff so to off to the right hand side possibly a yarrow boiler that might be a condenser there
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um off to my left hand side and you know navy ships especially this era this was
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kind of peak Royal Navy i think this was built in 1897 so you know right you know
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as the Royal Navy had ruled the seas ever since the battle of Trfalga it was incredibly well resourced it was the
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pride of the nation and all those kind of things so and you know the quality of the ships that they had absolutely
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reflected that so you're going to see as we go through this all sorts of stuff in fact one of the things I should probably
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mention is at the end of this video I'm going to put a load of montage of photos which were taken by various people and
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that that includes photos that were taken on the second dive so on this first dive Fran and myself don't really
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go to the bow in fact we don't go to the bow so you're going to get a whole load of stern stuff you can also So the the
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footage or the um the photos I show are going to be stuff from the bow i don't know why but we didn't um I think the
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camera went US for the second dive so we we don't have any video footage of the second dive which is which is a real
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pity but hey we've got something we've got those photos that you're going to be able to see later on so this is us
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though uh making our way to the stern fran obviously needs a bit of gas in her wing and I think one of the the kind of
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challenges that she faces being a smaller person is and she's got the
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G-box on her unit is it's so heavy that even with with no weight on um she can't
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be neutally buoyant with her dry suit so she she always has to use her wing and her dry suit which obviously just makes
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it a bit more challenging uh I'm sure plenty of people have seen my video about this whole subject and you will
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have um you will know that I just use my dry suit for for doing buoyancy and if you want to have a big discussion about
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it that's further on but this here on the right hand side France's just going over the barrel that is uh that is the
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stern gun so absolutely fantastic you see a gun you know you're on a warship well not entirely true you might be on a
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defensively armed ship but we've seen so many bits of brass and so many other bits that this is this is clearly a
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warship what Fran has also seen there is uh boxes and boxes of ammunition you can see them clearly uh on the seabed there
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i think she's going to come back to those in a minute me I'm carrying on sternwoods you can see there that that
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kind of uh that's the sort of thing that you would uh you would get in a a galley of a ship the the kind of weird um I
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guess T-shaped thing there's probably a proper name for them that I don't know you see there's a brass looks like a port hole down there that Fran's just
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gone over um there is there's there's a whole load of stuff going on down here and also a good sign that this wreck has
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has never been dived because certainly if if people had dived this back in the day everything on here would have would
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have gone but but there's brass stuff all over the place i mean there's a brass plaque or something there i mean
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who knows what who knows what that is um it would have probably been nice to get that to the surface and you know almost
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certainly there have been writing on it the uh the decision on this dive was that we would we would lift nothing and
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that is um that's Bob uh Cina that's that's his kind of policy for anybody
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who dives on his boat and we all obviously um you know we we follow that as well because hey Skipper's rule is is
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final even if sometimes it would be really useful to get stuff up to the surface like anything with writing on
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because they they can often solve things so you know one of the things is that we we dive this twice it's clearly a Navy
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ship it's It's the right size and shape and features and everything for um for
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Jason we we don't find anything conclusive that says it is HMS Jason we
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don't find the bell we don't you know obviously we don't find anything with anything when he writing about the best
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we do is some crockery that's clearly Navy crockery you can see that down there and you can see on some of the
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photos what we do have though is the the plans for HMS Jason and we'd studied those before we went down one of the
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great things about any uh any Kevin Heath trip is that they're so well researched so you kind of have all this
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kind of primary primary source data so what that does is allow you to look for specific features and then if you see
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those you can align them to the uh to the plans so here we go i mean you can see here this this is a really
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interesting thing we never inquire entirely figured out what this this was but we think uh oh that's really obvious
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that's the uh that's that's a prop threebaded uh prop with a kind of um you know pemount on it there or whatever um
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but the the thing that was below it uh the brass kind of uh object was some
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sort of uh I mean we think it was the the top of a pinnacle um that's that's what we kind of ended up in so the
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emergency steering position at the stern uh probably that was uh that was that was part of that i mean it would be a
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wonderful wonderful thing to see on the surface and I have to say I I'm always a big fan of stuff being up on the surface
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something like this HMS Jason wouldn't it be fantastic to have the bell or you
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know the maker's plate or something like that in the uh in the local church where those people are commemorated you've
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probably seen the drive shaft is off to the right of Fran uh kind of stuck up in the air but she's back at these uh these
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boxes you can see uh they look like they've got ammunition inside them the box themselves are you know essentially
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are smashed up so they've uh you know the time and tide and current and elements and all those kind of things
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have have broken up i found something there that I'm having a look at don't know exactly uh what what it is i think
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France Fran's swimming around in this area she's kind of not 100% certain what
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she's what she's looking for but probably coming to see what I'm I'm looking at oh yeah there you go that looks like a uh it looks like I've
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actually found a sink uh I probably thought that was a bowl and therefore was looking for something on the on the
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base of it some sort of uh mark or whatever but a unfortunately a sink is is is not much not much use in
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identifying a wreck there's a lobster who's like "What on earth is happening what on earth is going on here?" Uh
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never seen divers before probably never will see divers um they just come and
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invaded uh his home fran's very interested in those ammunition boxes i think she's showing them to me uh no
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doubt she wants me to get a uh a photograph of them uh and therefore she's probably trying to illuminate them
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yeah there you go she's pointing them out to me saying "Look there's there's ammo boxes." And obviously ammunition you can tell stuff about a wreck so
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caliber for instance allows you to know what size guns are on so these to me look like 4.7 in shells which is what uh
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what Jason carried sort of the stern the stern armament if you were to get a shell up often they have uh dates on
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them so when they were manufactured but also they would they would get packed every now and again and uh so the stamp
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on them can often you know you maybe find out sinking information um by by when they were by when they were packed
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so you know for instance they were the vessel didn't sink after the date it was packed sorry didn't sink before the date
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it was packed so So shells um you know you get a surprising amount of information from them also you know
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where they were manufactured so you can tell nationality of of ships sometimes so um don't neglect your shells there
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you go that's that's the message we've obviously turned around and we're kind of heading back there's a load of bottles there so um this I guess would
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tie up with this being a galley area there was that um there was that chimney that we saw earlier on which is you know
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very similar chimneys are still um seen on ships today and the great thing about them is obviously they let the smoke out
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but don't allow water water in so that's good i mean it would have been nice to to bring up some of these bottles as
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well because once again bottles particularly this era can tell you things you know um once again uh age
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nationality those kind of things but hey we said we weren't going to do it so they those bottles are all still down
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there you can see uh she's looking into all this other stuff and the rear of ships tend to be where crew compartments
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are and messes and galleys and all that kind of stuff so uh that means that there's there's almost certainly a whole
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load of interesting things down here what we have to think about though is is our run time you can see the TTS is up
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at 73 minutes now our we we've uh you know our dive time is at 23 minutes so
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we're we're starting to to think about you know getting back at some point that looks like a mast base of a mast there
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perhaps um you know like like old ships of the day they they did have masks not
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necessarily for uh putting sails up uh they obviously put flags on them they
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use them for spotting various other bits and pieces so although this this wasn't a sailing ship it was kind of not long
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after the transition from sail to um you know actual steam ships so you know the
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Navy they still love masks on ship they still love signaling the other thing you can see there is Fran's video like you
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can probably see the one on the left has got a has got a red bit on the top of it so uh that's uh battery life is on the
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way out the one on the the right um seems seems okay there's another port hole with a bronze dead light so uh in
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fact there's another one as well so there is just tons and tons of stuff down here which is uh which is
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incredible and and really nice to see although nothing really compared to the stuff that we saw on the next dive when
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Fran and me went forward and we went to the bow and there's there's all the bridge gear there it's absolutely
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incredible uh the only thing we didn't see was uh was was the bell so uh no
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doubt that's that's around somewhere but but Fran and me we're quite well attuned as a diving pair and we are both
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thinking about that decompression to come and the fact that it's going to be uh blooming cold so we're both uh we're
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starting to head back to the uh the shot line you see as we go past we're going past all this kind of the this bits of
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machinery difficult to kind of figure out exactly what it is you probably just saw the uh the strobes in front of you
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as there you can see Fran's keeping an eye on me she's uh she's really good like that and she's um she's very good
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at telling me when I when I need to do stuff but um what we both need to do at
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this point is uh is get ourselves back up off the bottom and uh head towards an
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awful lot of deco you can see there um she's given me a thumbs up so that's my
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uh you know we signal that we need to be uh heading back so we're both moving
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moving towards the shot and as we go we're obviously taking the last opportunity to to have a look around and
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I think one of the real disappointments from me is that we only got to dive this twice uh I've not been back there i
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would absolutely love to do this um although maybe not in April maybe like in September when the water's a bit
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warmer and also when I've got a uh a bit more of a heated uh I've got my new heated suit that would be that would be
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absolutely lovely anyway you can see the uh the strobes flashing away that's always a welcome sight means that you
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know where the uh shot line is you know where the way home is and you can see there if you have a look at the the
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graph on the bottom you can see that we're uh we're we're just about to start heading up fran's going to turn off her
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video lights and uh she's going to get put I think stick those in her bag she's going to get her her strobe and then
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we're going to uh we're going to head up to surface obviously the computer that you've been watching the overlay is my
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overlay for this dive it's not it's not France so but you know we were both diving the same uh type of computer
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we're both diving the same gradient factors we're both using uh the same gas so the information will be the same uh
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for both of us and this is us about to uh about to leave the bottom you can
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probably see that we're already starting the ascent and round about this point um what's
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going to happen is Fran's power lens is going to die and unfortunately this is one of those things that we had a lot
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with the original power lens it wasn't until I got the Vikita that these kind
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of issues started stopping and I would be able to get reliable video on pretty much every dive I did and that's why a
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lot of my earlier videos um either the video isn't great or it's missing but
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hey something's better than nothing right i promise you my deco profile here it is you can see that big long slow uh
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slow descent so and I don't actually get to the bottom there until about nearly 13 minutes we spend uh not much more
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than 10 on the bottom and then uh we head all the way back up interesting enough on this dive I I do the change of
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dilluent i do the dill flush and everything so that helps out a bit with the uh with the decco time and there you
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go you can see come out after about 2 hours freezing freezing cold because I'm
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a big wuss fortunately viz wasn't too bad on the stops um you can see there
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that's photo I took but this is where we spent the majority of our time and you can see Kindles would definitely order
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of the day then now I promised you some more photos this one is of uh Fran with
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a port hole this here is a Telegraph Royal Navy coffee grinder one next one
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up is uh the helm and if you have a look below it there on the left hand side you can see the actual brass that would have
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been part of the wheel uh here's the forward gun and uh that one's by Rick
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which is a good one and this one here is by me which is uh which is not so good
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you've already seen there were these things all port holes with brass headlights all over the place i've got
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no idea what this is but it looks pretty cool there that is the binnacle or the
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remains of it a Royal Navy uh plate clearly there and this is the thing that
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I I have to say I loved most of all it broke my heart leaving it down there that is the fish from the ship's log so
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that's how they would have uh calculated speed and then next to it is a uh is a is a lamp so there's Fran and me getting
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ready to go in this is the crew doing what they do getting the lazy shot in by
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the looks of things there's the whole team and I think it's really important to remember that this is a team game
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it's not one or two people but our leader the organizer the inspiration on
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this was Kevin and he quite rightly picked up the Bezac 2022 Expedition
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Award for this incredibly successful project so this was an epic adventure
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with a great team brilliant outcome i I was so proud to be a small part of it i
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hope you've enjoyed hearing all about it and as always with my videos I hope you'll leave us a like you drop us a
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