Forgotten Shipwreck Tragedy FOUND After 50 Years

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If you ask people what searching for Rex
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is like, I think they probably imagine
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there's a single target sitting alone in
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the darkness just waiting to be found.
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The reality is very different. Wreck
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hunting in deep water just doesn't work
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like that. And the search for US Coast
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Guard Tampa is a really good example of
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that. We had to look at an enormous area
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of seabed in some of the most
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inaccessible parts of the sea around the
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British Isles. But while searching for
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for that wreck, we kept finding others.
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Some had vanished so completely for
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memory that nobody even knew that they
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were there anymore. and some like the
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one that I'm going to talk about today,
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the French troller Tierry.
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It was a relatively small fishing vessel
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lost off the south coast of Ireland in
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July 1971
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while fishing in extremely heavy fog.
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She collided with a German cargo ship,
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the Reine. In fact, I think the cargo
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ship collided with the Tiari.
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The impact was catastrophic.
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Contemporary newspaper reports described
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this twler as being virtually cut in
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two. It sank rapidly. What makes a story
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particularly haunting is the accounts
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from the surviving crew
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as the small fishing vessel disappeared
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beneath them. The skipper Maxim Guiche
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was trapped inside the wheelhouse.
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His shouts for help were heard by the
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crew who desperately tried to reach him.
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They could hear him calling, "Save me!
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Save me!" But there was nothing they
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could do before the troller finally went
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under.
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Guicho and another crewman, Samuel Fred,
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were lost that night, leaving behind
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between them nine children.
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The eight surviving crew members were
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rescued from the sea by the ship that
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had hit them, the regime.
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But today, more than 50 years later, the
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wreck lies in deep water offshore.
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It's a sort of wreck that divers don't
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casually stumble across. It's too far
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out in the approaches. Basically, nobody
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will would ever dive it. The reason is
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because it was small compared to the
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large liners. the Ubot,
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the big merchant ships that divers are
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usually interested in. So even if a
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diver or a team of divers was to go that
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far out, they would probably have not
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been interested in it, there's much
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bigger and more famous wrecks nearby.
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But because we were looking for the
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tamper, which is a small vessel, we went
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and and dived a whole load of these
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small wrecks across this massive area of
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seabed. And that meant that we were able
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to find these small tragedies, solve
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mysteries like the tiar. So in today's
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video, I'm going to show you what it was
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like, how we found it, and how we
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identified it. The first problem you got
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to solve with diving off the north coast
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of Cornwall is how you get there. And
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that means you're going out with Chris
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Low on Atlantic Diver. There isn't
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another boat that will take you out this
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far. We've used Chris a lot. He's
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fantastic. I've spent a really good part
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of my life on board this boat and today
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was no exception. It's going to take us
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about 3 hours out, 3 hours back. During
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the journey, everyone likes to do their
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own individual thing.
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>> What we have here is a classic example
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of a technical diver getting in the
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zone.
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He's It's all about mental preparedness,
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isn't it, Steve?
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>> That's right, dog.
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Dive dive direct rep.
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>> Yeah, I can see you visualizing as we
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speak. So, Jacob, you're our
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representative today from that famous
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famous diving organization, the uh
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Peekom Underwater Explorers.
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Tell me, what are you looking forward to
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today?
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>> Uh, well, I mean, hopefully as a champ,
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we've been doing this for about 5 years
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or so, haven't we? So, It must We're
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going to run out of stuff and buy
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eventually. There'll be no more wrecks
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left in the sea and I'll start to wonder
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if it has to leave there. But, you know,
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I'm confident today today's going to be
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the day.
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>> Today's the day.
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>> Today's the day.
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>> Well, fingers crossed, eh?
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>> Yeah.
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>> Unfortunately, Jacob's confidence was
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misplaced. Today wasn't the day. In
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fact, tomorrow was the day. But we
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didn't know that at this time. We had
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had a huge amount of confidence going
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into this dive. We thought finally we
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were gonna crack it, but I guess that's
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the way it goes. We'd kissed a lot of
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frogs trying to trying to find the
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tamper and this was just another one of
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those for me. It was made slightly more
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interesting. In fact, a lot more
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interesting because I'd given up a day
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of the Britannic exped.
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As it turned out, that proved to be a
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really good decision because we'd
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already done all the Britannic dives. I
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managed to get back in time. I managed
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to get all my kit ready. I managed to
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get here and get on this dive. But if
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things had have been a bit different in
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Greece, potentially I'd have traded one
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of my Britannic dives for the
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opportunity to go and find the Temper or
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the opportunity to go and find the
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Tierry, which it is not quite as cool.
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It's still pretty cool because we're
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solving a mystery, but it's not it's not
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the tamper. It's not a a major
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discovery. It it's a little fishing
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vessel.
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Really important to the people who lost
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their loved ones on this vessel.
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Probably really important to the
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survivors if any of them are still
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alive. But in terms of a really
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significant event in a world war, well,
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the loss of the tierry isn't that.
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You can see for those of you who watch
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my other videos, you will be very
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familiar with a lot of what is happening
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here. We've jumped in. I've said hello
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to my buddy. He's made sure that there's
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no gas leaks. I had a quick look at him.
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There's no gas leaks on him. And now I'm
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just sorting my kit out in the descent.
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One of the things with this dive is it
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didn't quite go as well as I hoped.
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Not that you're going to see anything
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that's majorly wrong. It's just kind of
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mentally I wasn't quite there. And I
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think maybe that's because getting back
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from the Britannic had been such an
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issue for me. I'd this was on uh the
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Saturday. I'd spent all of Friday
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traveling. So, I'd left uh KIA in the
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early part of the morning on Friday
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morning. I traveled all the way through
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the day. I'd got back to my house at 7
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in the evening. I then had to put
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together all my gear, get everything
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ready, and then get myself to New Key,
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which is about an hour away for uh
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Saturday morning. So, it was all
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achievable. It was all done. I I said
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hello to my wife and my kids and all
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those kind of things, but but there was
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definitely a bit of a rush associated
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with it. And you might see that going on
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here. Jacob is is quite a long way ahead
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of me and it is ahead all the way
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through the descent even though I'm the
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one that's got the scooter. And as you
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can see, it's because I'm I'm messing
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around with stuff. In fact, at this
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moment in time, what I'm doing is I've
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managed to get the lazy shot, that
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yellow line wrapped around the rear of
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one of my cylinders. And there you can
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see it's just wrapped around the
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scooter. Not not a major issue, just one
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of those things that takes a bit of a
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while to sort. And if you were to ask me
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how long it takes or it took me, I would
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have said a lot longer than it seems in
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this video. In fact, you might have
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heard me asking Jacob there to come and
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give me a hand. He he didn't he probably
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didn't hear me. Probably didn't even
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notice I was tangled because I I dealt
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with it so quickly. But at the time it
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it just felt as though it took me a
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while to resolve. The other thing that
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you can see going on here is I'm about
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to attach my dive to the uh to the to
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the lazy shot there, which is what I'm
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going to watch when I come back up for
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my deco stops. Once again, it it just
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took me a long time. It doesn't seem as
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though it's taking me a long time on
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this video, but it felt as though it
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took me a long time. Maybe it's because
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I can see Jacob disappearing off down
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the line there. And I'm kind of feeling
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that I they I have to be with him. I
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want to be there when he gets to the
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bottom when he gets onto the wreck. But
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but it was just a certainly at this bit
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of the dive anyway, a little bit of a
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sense of unease. And it didn't really go
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for me until I was on the wreck. I've
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just fast forwarded a bit and as you can
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see, I'm now getting close to the wreck.
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Still haven't caught up Jacob who was
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really motoring on this. It's quite
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unusual. Normally the person with the
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scooter is going to get down first.
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One of the questions you might ask, of
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course, is if I wasn't feeling great,
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why did I carry on? And what I would say
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is that's one of those decisions that
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you have to make as a diver, how not
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happy are you feeling? I was feeling a
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little bit unhappy, a little bit of
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unease, more I think the sense that I
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just wasn't on top of my game. So that
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was that was what was going on rather
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than a kind of a major sense that
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something is wrong.
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What isn't wrong is that we are on the
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wreck. There's always a possibility
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doing dives like this that the shot's
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not going to be on it, but this is bang
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on it. You can see it's right next to
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it. And we are just coming over the
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wreck. And that means we're into the
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whole kind of what is this wreck? Where
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are we? What's going on? probably just
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seen I've gone over a winch. As it turns
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out, I've also just gone past the bridge
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and I'm now heading towards the bow.
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This wreck was really heavily netted and
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you're going to see lots of that during
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the during the dive.
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It's it it's one of those things. I
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mean, this was, as it turns out, was a
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fishing vessel. We don't know that at
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this period of time, but this area is
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heavily fished. There's loads of stuff
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out here and that means legacy nets,
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ghost nets, whatever you want to call
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them, are a part and parcel of every
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wreck. They do pose a hazard, but as
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you'll see, most of these on here are
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old wrecks. Sorry, old nets and
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therefore they're big and heavy. They
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stick to the wreck. Not much to worry
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about. I'm clearly at the bow. As you
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can see, we know it's a small wreck. You
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can see I'm just going down to have a
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quick look. See if there's anything
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obvious down at the seabed here. Like
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for instance, the bell. Sometimes they
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fall off, land on the seabed. It's uh
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it's not there, which is a bit of a
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pity, but not really that much of a
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surprise. Wreck is quite intact, which
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is relatively unusual and a good
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indicator really that this is a
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relatively modern wreck. Older wrecks
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tend to be more degraded. And as you see
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throughout this dive, I'm going to spot
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other things that that lead us pretty
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rapidly to the conclusion that this is a
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modern wreck.
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Just coming back over the top again. You
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can see Jacob. He's been to the bow as
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well. He's heading round trying to see
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what he can see. There's there's that
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winch again. And what I've got my torch
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on there just up the top. That is uh
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it's going to be the bridge. I've
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already realized it's the bridge. So,
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you've got to uh you got to spend a bit
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of time there because that's where you
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find things potentially that can help
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you identify it. Maybe the maker's
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plate, maybe a bell, maybe some writing
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on something like a helm.
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What is quite obvious to me, you can
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probably see, is that there are lots of
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boxes here. These
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look to me as though they're non-ferris.
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actually haven't reflected on it. I
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suspect they're stainless. They just
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haven't rotted in the 50 years that this
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is underwater. But this is clearly the
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bridge area. I didn't know it at this
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time. But if you think back to my
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introduction, this is the area where the
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skipper was last seen with his save me,
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save me, save me cries. So, it's it's
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clearly collapsed. the bridge
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potentially he or his remains are are
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somewhere in here and which is a really
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sobering thing when I when I look back
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at it now he as you heard in the
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introduction him and the other crewmen
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had nine children between them so that
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was 50 years ago I think it's a
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reasonable assumption that some of his
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children or maybe his grandchildren are
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still alive today and yeah I mean I
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guess I hope that they see this video. I
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hope they realize that we found where
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their father or their grandfather, where
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his ship is and potentially where his uh
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remains are as well.
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What I'm doing at the moment, you can
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see, is is I've just gone off onto the
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starboard side of the wreck, and there's
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some stuff down here. I'm coming down to
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have a look at it. Things often fall off
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bridges. That to me looks like a bit of
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a plate as in a a brass plate, a metal
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plate. I'm thinking at this point in
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time, I'm thinking that maybe that is
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the the maker's plate. I'm going to pull
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it up. And and you can see it isn't.
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It's just a bit of plastic.
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At this point in time, obviously, I
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don't know what the wreck is. My my
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entire focus is on trying to find
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something that can identify it. At this
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point, I know it's not the tamper
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because that big winch tamper didn't
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have one. It had a gun where that where
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that winch should be. So, we know it's
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not We know it's not the tamper. As I go
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down the uh starboard side once you can
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see me looking over the edge for things.
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It's really clear that this is some sort
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of modern fishing vessel.
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Still catching still catching fish. You
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can see all those nets on there. It's
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absolutely beautiful. There is so much
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marine growth on this wreck.
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It is It is beautiful. But at this
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moment in time, I've I've absolutely got
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that focus of trying to uh trying to
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figure out what it is, trying to
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identify. I'm looking for any clues that
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may help me with that. As I've gone up
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onto the wreck there, it's that's
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clearly the engine room is on there is
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underneath there. I didn't know at the
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time, but this is a a diesel a diesel
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ship. It was built in the early 1950s,
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so post Second World War. It's not going
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to be coal fired, so therefore there
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won't be uh there won't be boilers.
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There's almost certainly a diesel engine
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under there.
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I've got to the stern of the ship. I am
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dropping down. I'm going to have a look
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at the prop. Sometimes you can tell
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things uh from props. So, anybody who
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watched the video where we dived another
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fishing fishing vessel, the Labo, when
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we got underneath it, it had one of
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those shrouded props, which are quite a
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modern design. I think this this doesn't
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have that. It's got the the rudder
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there, and it's got a fairly standard uh
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screw. We're going to see in a second.
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Once again, covered covered in uh in
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fishing nets. It's not a a tug, though.
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A tug would have a much bigger screw
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than that. The other thing I've realized
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at this point is that my GoPro isn't
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working. So, you can see I've just
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turned it on.
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Now, the benefit of doing that is that
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all of a sudden we get some much better
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quality video than my Power Lens, the
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GoPro mounted on the front of my scooter
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with those two lovely video lights. So,
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you saw the the screw there. You can see
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this is coming up on the port side. Now,
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once again, super intact this wreck.
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Really unusual at the back there. Those
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uh kind of I guess curve that curved bit
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is part of the the trolling gear. I've
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seen them on other other fishing
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vessels. So, once again, I recognize
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this. There's no there's no doubt in my
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mind at this point that this is a
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troller. So, we've got those things at
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the back. We've got the winches at the
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front. We've got that relatively uh
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small prop and the size of it.
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Everything just points to this being a
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twler. No idea which trwler, no idea of
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the history, but those uh boxes in the
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bridge, that would give me anyway the
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view that this is a
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relatively relatively modern twler,
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which fits in well with the fact it's
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intact as well. So, there's electronics
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in the bridge there. There we go. Now,
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what you can see down here looking down
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there, that is probably into the engine
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area or maybe uh part of the
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accommodation. So, the the stern
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accommodation
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realistically not going to be able to
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get in there, but but I do have a a
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quick look in there. The other thing you
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can see on this wreck is actually loads
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of fish as well. Clearly, they're
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they're laughing about the fishing nets,
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but but there we go. And this is this is
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back on the bridge. So, if there's
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anything that's going to tell us what
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this wreck is, chances are it's in the
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bridge. That's that's my logic. And what
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I'm going to do is have a good look
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around. So, I let go of the scooter and
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start looking around.
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You'll have seen me do similar things on
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other dives. It's that slow, methodical,
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taking the time to look really closely
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at everything that there is down there
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and hoping that you find something
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that's going to uh solve the mystery.
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Whatever that thing was I picked up
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there, I think it was a bit of plastic.
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Didn't solve the mystery. That there I
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think is a toilet or possibly a basin.
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And then here are all these these boxes.
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Again, this is clearly the the main area
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of the bridge. the brains. I assume
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those would have been navigational or
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radio equipment or something like that.
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Once again, you can see there I'm using
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the uh light from the scooter to have a
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good look around. Also recording it.
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There you go. The uh the fish have been
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scared by something. I think it's
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another diver coming down. You can see
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there's there's wires and cables there.
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Once again, sort of thing that you get
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on modern uh ships. what you don't get
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on World War I or earlier type stuff.
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What I haven't figured out yet is just
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to my left there. That is actually the
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helm. So, I'm going to find the ship's
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wheel in a minute, but that's where it
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would have been.
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If you think uh the construction of a
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helm, the helm is actually the steering
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mechanism. The wheel, which I've just
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put my torch on there, goes onto the
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helm. Normally, it's got it's made of
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wood. So, the uh internal bit is wood.
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The spokes are wood. And then the
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handles around the outside are wood.
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What you do normally have though is a
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bit of brass that keeps that all
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together. And that's what I've uh I've
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just spotted down there. And as I get
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closer, you will see there is remnants
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of of wood uh left. Now, that's uh it's
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quite unusual to find a ship's wheel.
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It's potentially it's really good though
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because often they have the name written
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on them. It's kind of a bit of pride.
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I've seen several ships wheels that are
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like that that the brass circles around
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the outside.
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I'm going to spoil it a little bit for
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you. This one doesn't have the uh
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doesn't have the name on it. Or if it
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does, I couldn't see it. I mean, you can
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see I'm going to spend a bit of time uh
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pulling this out to trying to get it
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upright so that I can uh I can see the
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name.
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Now, once again, if I'd known this was
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the the tierry and I'd known this is
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where the skipper um was last seen with
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his kind of save me, save me call, would
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I have done this? I guess I wouldn't
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have done because I know that I would
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have known that this is a tier. But at
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this moment, I don't know it's a T. I
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want to solve the mystery. I want to
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give, you know, potentially closure to
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people who are who are missing people.
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And
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there's not a lot of clues often on
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shipwrecks to what things are. So, if
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there is something on here that will
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help or potentially would help an awful
21:20
lot. As it turns out, there isn't. But,
21:23
and we've actually it got enough when I
21:26
get on the surface and we start doing
21:28
the research, there's enough to identify
21:30
what it is. But I didn't know that at
21:34
the time, which is why I'm, you know,
21:37
carrying on doing what I'm doing.
21:40
Uh, it's also kind of hooked in with
21:43
bits of net and other bits of rope and
21:45
all sort of bits of actual wreck. So,
21:48
the bridge, as we've already said, has
21:49
collapsed down and therefore the
21:51
remnants of that are are in the way here
21:54
are
21:56
just making it a bit difficult to get it
21:58
out completely. So, I I don't uh do
22:00
anything with it other than than leave
22:02
it here. So, if anybody wants to see a
22:04
ship's wheel, you can go and see one on
22:07
the on the Tierry. It's exactly there
22:09
where I've left it. And I actually come
22:10
back to it later on, I think. So, you'll
22:12
see it towards the end of the dive, but
22:14
nothing on it is the uh is the sad bit.
22:18
nothing, no words, no letters, no clue
22:22
as to what it is or where it came from,
22:24
which is which is disappointing, but
22:28
that is the way it goes. The important
22:30
thing for me is that we identify the
22:33
Terry
22:35
and how we identify it is is not so much
22:38
relevant. It's the fact that we did and
22:40
and I guess it's worth saying how did we
22:42
identify it? Well, the size and the
22:45
shape are are right. When you have a
22:47
look at the photos that I showed you at
22:49
the beginning, it's the layout is the
22:51
same. It looks the same. There's all the
22:54
hatches and stuff are in the right
22:56
place.
22:58
It's sunk
23:00
pretty much, you know, where the sinking
23:02
report of the TI is. Remember, of
23:04
course, that the the German ship that
23:06
hit it would have um filed a report,
23:09
would have said where it was, and those
23:12
things all match up together.
23:15
There's one other killer uh feature as
23:18
well, which I'm going to come back to
23:19
later. You've seen it already, but I
23:22
haven't talked about it, but you are
23:24
going to see it in in a bit. And it's an
23:27
once I realize what it is, it's it's an
23:29
incredible thing, but I haven't realized
23:31
at the moment. I think I'm just stuck um
23:34
in a bit of netting. I think it's caught
23:36
on one of my stages. So, what I'm doing
23:38
kind of out of shot at the moment is
23:41
just uh disentangling, unentangling,
23:44
whatever it is, sorting it all out.
23:46
Anyway,
23:48
I think at this point I've decided that
23:52
I just need to have a another look
23:54
around.
23:56
Potentially, this is where the the bell
23:58
is up the front here or or maybe fallen
24:00
down from the bridge. You can see
24:02
there's a hatch there. I think the big
24:04
winch is off to my left. The foil castle
24:08
is there and folks rather is there in
24:10
front of me. There's a hatch there that
24:12
would have gone into that area. There
24:15
might be something in there, but but
24:17
probably not. Every um skipper I know of
24:22
a boat just just keeps all sorts of
24:23
random rubbish in the front. But right,
24:28
so we are back on the uh GoPro. You can
24:32
see there I'm I'm looking down on the
24:33
seabed.
24:35
There's uh there's nothing there.
24:39
I think for those of you who follow my
24:41
dive computer on the the left hand side
24:43
there, you'll see that the the TTS is
24:46
starting to rack up. This is uh 90 odd
24:48
meters deep.
24:50
It's quite early on in the year as well,
24:52
so the water is still uh relatively
24:55
cold.
24:57
We don't want to do a huge amount of
24:58
decode, not least because we've realized
25:01
it's not something special. So, I'm
25:04
keeping an eye on those sorts of things
25:06
as I always do. But what I'm mainly
25:08
trying to do is is is have a look on the
25:11
seabed. Maybe if there was a bell, it
25:13
would have fallen off, but it it isn't
25:15
there. So coming coming back up on the
25:18
wreck and in some ways I think this bit
25:22
of the wreck that we're coming on to now
25:23
is one of the more interesting parts of
25:26
it. It's the wreck as you can see has
25:28
got a slight lean to to the starboard
25:31
side and therefore a lot of stuff has
25:33
fallen either not so much onto the
25:35
seabed but has fallen down uh into the
25:38
side here by the gunnel. You can see
25:40
there that that's just the edge of the
25:41
bridge there. And there's I've been here
25:43
before, but there's there's loads of
25:44
stuff um in the bottom there. There is
25:47
the winch that's looking towards the
25:50
bow. And once again, it's just having a
25:53
look on the off chance. Just taking the
25:55
time that that something might have
25:57
fallen down. There's another diver. I
26:00
think what I'm probably trying to do is
26:02
is let the other diver know that the
26:03
ship's wheel is up there. I was just
26:06
briefly looking at the helm for a
26:08
moment. That is the one major bit of the
26:11
bridge that is still intact and upright
26:13
where it's where it should be. There it
26:16
is. There's the wheel. You can see the
26:17
the helm is just behind it. So, it's
26:19
it's slightly fallen off to the
26:22
starboard side. The reason I just had a
26:25
look back at the helm there and I'm back
26:27
on the bridge is because when I dug it
26:29
out clearly I kicked the viz up and I'm
26:32
coming back to it now that the viz has
26:33
has dropped down a bit just to check
26:36
confirm maybe there's maybe there's
26:38
something there maybe there isn't that
26:41
hatch that we've seen already that goes
26:43
down into the engine room I think that
26:46
may well have been a a skylight or
26:48
something like that or maybe events
26:50
engine rooms get really warm as I'm sure
26:53
people realize eyes and therefore having
26:54
decent vents and decent light is is
26:58
something worth worth having.
27:02
Right,
27:03
this is me uh I think dropping just down
27:06
on the side here. So, this is back on
27:08
the starboard side. And once again,
27:11
loads of nets. Having a look around the
27:14
uh the wreck. Doing that kind of slow,
27:16
methodical thing doesn't necessarily
27:18
make for for great uh viewing, although
27:22
I know people always like to watch and
27:24
see if I've missed anything. One of the
27:26
interesting things here, I think, if you
27:28
have a look on on there that I'm just
27:29
looking directly at, that is, I think, a
27:32
a door. And my view is that if you have
27:35
a look here, that is where the door has
27:37
has come from. So I have a look up
27:41
through there to see if there's anything
27:42
uh interesting.
27:45
In a moment, I think I'm going to be
27:46
able to see out of the the other side of
27:49
it. I guess if I was wearing a single
27:52
cylinder, maybe if I had a side mount,
27:54
maybe have a different rebreather, I
27:55
might be tempted to go in there and have
27:57
a look around. But this is this is 90
28:00
odd meters deep.
28:03
It's getting close to the end of my run
28:05
time. I don't think there's anything in
28:07
there that's uh that's particularly
28:09
interesting. So, I am not going to
28:12
bother.
28:13
This is me back at the stern back on the
28:17
top of it again. You can see all those
28:19
uh beautiful that beautiful marine
28:21
growth. I guess there must be some
28:23
relatively strong currents here for for
28:26
that all to be there. Those all feed in
28:28
currents. I'd love to be able to tell
28:30
you the name. Unfortunately, that's just
28:32
not who I am as a diver. I know a lot
28:35
about Rex or I know a reasonable amount
28:37
about Rex. I am I'm not so not so good
28:40
on marine life. Those that's the thing
28:41
that I saw earlier on. It's some part of
28:43
the the rope or the net handling system.
28:46
There's probably a proper word for it
28:48
unfortunately. I don't know it. So,
28:50
moing bolards you probably saw just uh
28:53
down there. So, I guess that's where the
28:55
stern would be would be morowed. And I'm
28:57
now going to move forward. And when I
28:59
move forward, one of the uh the really
29:02
interesting things um about the wreck is
29:06
is going to come into sight.
29:09
It I should have really seen it when I
29:12
uh when I descended, but but I hadn't
29:13
clocked it up until I go go to it in a
29:17
go to it in a moment.
29:21
What I'm doing before that though is
29:24
that slow methodical thing that that I
29:26
do, but I'm doing it on the port side
29:27
now. Just having a look, see if there's
29:29
anything that might give us a clue as to
29:32
what it is. Nothing. There's just loads
29:35
of stuff uh covered in net. So, this is
29:37
me moving forward. And I think round
29:40
about now is when I suddenly realize, if
29:42
you have a look down there, there is a
29:45
massive crack in the hull.
29:48
If we think back to the newspaper
29:51
reports, they talk about the tierry
29:54
being nearly cut in half. Now, clearly
29:58
it's not in half, but it does have this
30:01
massive crack in the side of the hole.
30:03
It all the other bits of the hull are
30:06
completely intact. We've seen them
30:08
throughout the dive, but but this bit
30:10
here is not. Imagine
30:14
what is going to happen to a ship the
30:17
size of the Terry when it gets a hole in
30:20
it as big as this is. And as you can
30:22
see, I'm sticking the the GoPro,
30:24
sticking the scooter in to show you how
30:27
big it is and how deep into the into the
30:30
wreck it goes. It has
30:32
put a massive massive hole in the side.
30:36
The amount of water that is going to go
30:38
in there is is going to be incredible
30:40
and it's going to happen really quickly.
30:42
And that for me is why the tierry sunk
30:45
as quickly as it did and why I think the
30:48
crew thought it was cut in half.
30:51
If we come up here, you can see it's
30:54
it's it's kind of a bit difficult to see
30:56
in this video, but it was really obvious
30:58
underwater. There's also a massive dent
31:00
here in the side of the bridge. I think
31:03
you can probably I mean, I'm hoping you
31:05
can see it there. I'm putting my torch
31:06
on it, but it does there's a huge curve
31:09
in from the impact. Now, I've tried to
31:12
find out the details of the Regina, how
31:15
big it was, but I've not been able to
31:18
find anything. But judging by the the
31:20
size of the dent and the size of the
31:22
crack, it must have been a much bigger
31:25
vessel than the Tierry. I I can't think
31:28
of any other reason why you would get a
31:30
crack the size of that big and why you
31:33
would also get um that big that big dent
31:36
as well.
31:38
You can probably see that I'm back up on
31:39
the bridge. And the thing that I'm going
31:41
to do is I am clearing the
31:47
uh the growth off the off the helm, the
31:50
actual helm. And you can see the the
31:52
boss now,
31:55
which once again I hadn't spotted when I
31:57
was doing the or when I was looking at
31:59
the wheel. I have spotted it now. It's
32:03
it's one of those things when you see
32:06
something like this, you kick yourself
32:07
that you hadn't spotted it earlier. But
32:10
that that's the reality when you're
32:12
doing this kind of diving. You are
32:13
getting so much information.
32:16
You've got such a short period of time
32:18
that you sometimes do miss things. And
32:20
that's why I go through that really
32:21
methodical thing. That's you make sure
32:23
that I don't miss things. And there you
32:24
go. I've put the the GoPro back on on
32:26
the boss. And once you see it, it's
32:28
really obvious. There's the the bits in
32:30
the side where the spokes would have
32:32
come out. You might also have seen that
32:33
there was a uh a port hole on the floor
32:36
as well. So I guess that would be off
32:38
the side of the bridge. So So maybe when
32:41
the uh when the rejoin hit the the
32:44
tierry and did that huge amount of
32:46
damage, it also smashed the bridge up as
32:49
well. And that's why there's so little
32:51
of it left. Why unlike the rest of the
32:54
wreck, it has collapsed and why that
32:56
port hole that I saw there is is on the
32:59
ground.
33:01
What I've decided at this point is that
33:02
my dive is done. You can see there I'm
33:05
heading towards my strobes. I've got
33:09
whatever it is 100 minutes, 130 minutes
33:13
TTS, 2 and a bit hours. The run time,
33:17
the max run time on this was 150
33:19
minutes.
33:21
Although, credit to Chris, he's a bit
33:24
less um worried about it than than some
33:27
of the other uh skippers I dive with. He
33:29
doesn't want you to completely smash it,
33:31
but he's not going to get super upset.
33:34
And it's time to uh time to start the
33:36
ascent. What that means is all the usual
33:39
stuff I do on the bottom of my dive or
33:42
rather at the start of the ascent. So,
33:44
as you can see, I've just taken my
33:46
strobes off there. I'm busy fixing them
33:49
onto my uh onto my shoulder. I I've got
33:52
a kind of clip up on the top right hand
33:54
side. I am going to do that honest all
33:56
the time. As you can see, I'm I'm
33:58
starting to ascend. So, I'm not spending
34:00
extra time on the bottom trying to do
34:02
these things. I'm just ascending while
34:05
I'm doing everything. Clearly, that cuts
34:08
down the amount of deco I'm going to do.
34:10
Gets me into the best possible place and
34:13
all those kind of things. You probably
34:14
see the water starting to get a bit
34:15
lighter already as I'm coming up. And
34:18
there, what you can see is I'm using my
34:20
scooter. You saw the rush of bubbles go
34:22
past. So, that's me venting the loop,
34:24
getting the gas out as I ascend. My
34:27
standard procedure is to do what I'm
34:28
doing here, which is to ascend using the
34:31
scooter to get to about half the
34:33
distance from the bottom to my first
34:35
deco stop. What I then do is slow things
34:39
down as I'm doing here. And I then take
34:42
the the rest of the way from the i.e.
34:45
the point I've got to up until my first
34:46
deco stop, I'll take it at a pretty
34:49
standard 9 or 10 m per minute ascent
34:52
rate.
34:54
You can argue about whether that's a
34:55
good thing or not, but it definitely uh
34:58
it works. It works for me. It's
35:00
something I've done quite a lot and so
35:03
far so good. The other things you can
35:05
see some other admin going on as I
35:06
ascend. So, I'm just turning my GoPro
35:08
off.
35:10
Not that there's any particular reason
35:12
for doing that. I could keep it running,
35:14
but I just end up with a uh a memory
35:16
card full of video of my chest or
35:19
whatever because the other thing I'm
35:20
going to do is fold in the arms. uh on
35:23
the video lights. You've already seen me
35:24
turning the lights off. And then I'm
35:26
going to clip my scooter to my uh the
35:29
left uh harness on my uh or the left
35:32
clip. Wrong. I'll say that again. The
35:34
clip on the left side of my harness and
35:37
that keeps the scooter on my front.
35:40
Anybody who's watched the video where I
35:42
have the scooter behind me and and it
35:44
goes on, this is clearly a a way to
35:47
avoid that. So, scooter's in front of
35:49
me. If anything happens with it, I've
35:50
got easy access to it and it's all fine.
35:54
What else is going on? You can probably
35:56
see me ascending. Well, all the time
35:58
I've been talking, I've ascended. I'm up
36:00
to about uh 48 m. So, getting close to
36:03
my first eco stop. The lazy shot with
36:06
Chris is normally a a bit shallower than
36:09
it is if I'm diving with other people
36:11
like in deep or dark. So, it's going to
36:14
be about uh 35ish mters.
36:18
But basically, I'm at my first deco stop
36:20
now. So, what I'm doing, you probably
36:22
see with my uh my handset for my
36:25
inspiration is on my left hand there on
36:28
my left wrist. I'm just changing the P2
36:30
to 1.5 bar. And I'm going to do the same
36:33
thing with my sheer water on my right
36:36
hand side as well. And you will see that
36:38
on the uh the overlay that I've got on
36:41
on the screen. The advantage to doing
36:43
that of course is that it uh accelerates
36:46
my decco
36:48
and therefore will will reduce the
36:50
amount of time I need to do. It makes
36:52
makes a reasonable difference enough of
36:54
a difference that it's uh that it's
36:56
worth doing. For people who are
36:58
interested in CNS, obviously switching
37:02
to 1.5 bar this deep will push up my CNS
37:06
quite dramatically.
37:08
I um don't really the standard CNS
37:12
tracking I don't play pay any interest
37:14
to. I've routinely come up from dives
37:17
with 170 180 200% CNS. If you look at
37:21
people like the wet mules who do the
37:23
really long cave dives, their CNS must
37:25
be in the thousands of percents. The
37:28
only thing uh with oxygen toxicity that
37:31
I'm interested in is the actual P2. So,
37:35
I won't go to 1.5 on the bottom. I'll
37:38
only switch to 1.5 when I'm as I am now,
37:41
which is relatively static. So, um I'm
37:45
I'm shallower. I'm not working hard.
37:48
Everything's under control, and those
37:51
reduce the uh the risk factors for um
37:55
oxygen toxicity. Although pushing up to
37:58
1.5 absolutely does increase the risk of
38:00
a hit, but for me, I think the risk is
38:04
uh still absolutely uh reasonable. I
38:08
don't think it's excessive.
38:10
I've done it a lot. You'll see it in all
38:12
my videos. So, I guess so far the proof
38:15
is uh that it works. I've skipped
38:18
forward again. You can see I've uh come
38:20
up about 10 m. And I thought you'd like
38:23
to see this, which is the lazy shot. You
38:27
can probably see that hanging off it is
38:29
a bag and in that bag is my dive voke.
38:32
Also, there is my tag, which you
38:34
probably saw me uh leaving on the way
38:36
down. And as you can see, it's the only
38:38
thing left on the lazy shot. So, I'm I'm
38:40
the last diver, which means I've got to
38:42
release the lazy shot. Chris is slightly
38:44
different. He doesn't use a clip. He
38:46
just uses a bit of rope or bit of kind
38:48
of string. There you can see. And I'm
38:50
just cutting it with my knife, which
38:53
always gets a lot of stick for not being
38:55
particularly sharp. And as you can see,
38:57
it's making a bit of a mess out of uh
39:00
out of that oral butter of rope. So,
39:02
I've no doubt I'm going to get a load of
39:03
stick in the comments uh for that. But
39:07
as you can see, it's worked. And the
39:08
lazy shot is released. It's dropped
39:11
vertically and we're going to start
39:12
drifting away. I'm going to swim over
39:15
there because I want my dive voke. I
39:17
want my tag.
39:19
Those who uh will have seen some of my
39:21
other videos know that the dive has got
39:24
an old mobile phone in there and I use
39:27
it to watch videos on my deco stops and
39:30
that does help the time fly quite a lot.
39:32
So, it's a great bit of kit. I love them
39:34
to bits. If you haven't seen one, you
39:36
haven't got one, you should definitely
39:38
go and buy one. They're only a few
39:40
hundred pounds in the UK and for me
39:43
anyway, they transform uh decompression
39:46
stops.
39:48
As you can see, it's a bit lower or a
39:51
bit deeper than I need to be. So, uh,
39:54
there's some other divers above me. What
39:55
I'm going to do is pull up the rope to
39:57
myself. I'll take it off and then I'll
39:59
drop it back down again with with that
40:01
little bit of weight on. You see, it's
40:03
coming up fairly easily. The other thing
40:05
you might notice, I've got a double clip
40:06
on there. I've seen somebody drop one of
40:09
these doing something very similar to
40:10
what I'm going to do now. So, one of
40:13
those clip I've got a little clip on the
40:15
wrist on my handset for my AP. So, one
40:18
of those clips is going to go on there.
40:20
When that's all nice and secure, I'll
40:22
take the other one off and I'll do the
40:23
same. So, this is always attached to me.
40:27
There's no risk of me ever dropping it.
40:31
There you go. You can see I've got the
40:33
uh got the dive oak on me. The next
40:36
thing I'm going to do is put up my SMB.
40:39
That is our protocol. I think I've
40:41
mentioned it already. Once a lazy shot
40:43
is released, all the divers put up a
40:45
delayed SMB. The skipper is then able to
40:48
count them, see how many divers he's
40:50
got. He will see that the lazy shot is
40:53
drifting away and therefore he can go
40:54
back and recover the shot from the
40:56
wreck. I think this is something that
40:58
that often surprises people. We don't
41:00
leave shots on wrecks. There's no point.
41:03
They would they would vanish. We're
41:04
never going to come back here ever again
41:06
anyway. So, um there's there's simply no
41:09
point. And and the skipper wants his
41:11
weight. He wants his rope. He wants his
41:13
boy. Uh, and the last thing we need to
41:15
do is leave a whole load more rope in
41:16
the ocean. You probably saw there was
41:18
there was plenty there. The other thing
41:20
you might have seen is that I've come
41:22
off to the side of the lazy shot. I've
41:24
had a look up. I've made sure that
41:26
there's not going to be any divers above
41:28
me because when I when I put up this
41:31
delayed SMB, the last thing I need to do
41:32
is disturb somebody by uh by hitting it
41:35
with them. I'm sure we've all seen that
41:38
happen or we've had near misses or
41:40
whatever. Uh, famously, I had one go up
41:43
um in between I actually it was my own.
41:46
I put it in between my loop and my head.
41:48
I still to this day have no idea how I
41:51
managed that, but but I did. It wasn't
41:54
on a really deep dive like this, but
41:56
somehow I managed it. I've no idea. I
41:58
must have been absolutely uh not
42:00
thinking. The other thing that uh
42:02
probably uh some people aren't aware of
42:04
is how I fill up my delayed SMB. I don't
42:08
have a bottle on my delay. I don't have
42:10
a CO2 cartridge, not on the main one.
42:12
What I do is I use the auto air that is
42:15
on the side of my rebreather. It's also
42:18
uh the inflater for my rebreather, but
42:20
it's connected into the the 3 L cylinder
42:23
of air that I carry on the back. That
42:25
gives me plenty of gas. It also runs my
42:27
suit inflate. It runs my wing. And as
42:30
you can see there, gives me some gas to
42:32
put in into a delayed SMB. So, that has
42:36
gone up and I'm going to, as you would
42:39
expect, slowly wind it up as I ascend.
42:42
I'm going to use it to control my uh
42:44
decco stops in the sense of it will it
42:47
just makes decoding a lot easier if you
42:50
uh hold on to your delay, but you get
42:52
slightly negatively buoyant and it it's
42:54
it's just one less thing to do.
42:56
Particularly useful if you're watching a
42:58
video like I am. I guess the only thing
43:01
you've got to be aware of with watching
43:02
videos is that it's easy to drift away
43:05
from the lazy shot. At the moment, the
43:08
viz is really good and it's really easy
43:10
to see the lazy shot. I think on this
43:12
dive as we got up shallower, the the viz
43:14
deteriorated and it became much more
43:17
difficult. But anyway, in fact, here you
43:20
go. You can see it. I've I've skipped
43:21
forward. You can see I'm at 4 m now. So,
43:24
my deco has pretty much clear. You can
43:26
see my dive oak is hanging off my
43:28
delayed SMB uh reel along with that
43:31
yellow call for gas reel. So if I needed
43:34
it, it would be a really quick thing for
43:36
me to do. But my uh my stops have have
43:40
completed. I think I'm the last diver.
43:44
So I'm the the last diver left in the
43:45
water. Another thing we do is
43:48
when individuals have cleared their
43:50
deco, individuals come up. we don't tend
43:53
to uh come up as a group or or as little
43:56
groups. The reality is I'm at I'm really
43:58
shallow here. I've got a 50% gas if I if
44:01
I needed it. I could get a 100% gas in
44:03
off the boat if I needed to. It there's
44:06
not really anything that that anybody
44:08
can do to help me. So, that's that's our
44:11
protocol. Once again, like as with lots
44:13
of the stuff we do, it's possible to
44:15
criticize it. Uh you may do it
44:17
differently. Obviously, that's entirely
44:20
up to you. We don't do that. Most of the
44:23
groups I I dive with don't do that
44:25
either. We we just clear our deco. We
44:27
come up as individuals. It's also easier
44:30
for the boat as well because it means
44:31
it's only got one diver on the surface
44:33
to deal with at any given time. The
44:36
other thing you can see me doing here is
44:38
just resetting or changing the P2 on the
44:43
sheer water back to 1.3.
44:46
The reason I do that is because if I
44:49
don't do it now, I'll probably forget to
44:52
do it when I get in on my next dive. So,
44:54
it's happened to me. I've forgot to
44:57
change it at the end of my deco stops.
44:58
I've got in on the dive and a few a
45:00
couple of minutes into the dive, I've
45:02
looked down at my sheer water and
45:04
realized it's still set to 1.5.
45:06
Obviously, that's not dangerous because
45:08
it's not what I'm, you know, I'm not
45:11
diving at P2, but it will give me
45:13
incorrect decompression information. So
45:15
that's why I do it. As you can see, dive
45:18
is done. I'm slowly ascending to the
45:21
surface.
45:23
I think at this point on this dive, I
45:26
was feeling a little bit disappointed
45:29
because we'd expected to find the tamper
45:33
and we clearly hadn't found the tamper.
45:34
We'd found another another fishing
45:37
vessel. And at this moment in time, I
45:40
didn't know that we were going to be
45:41
able to identify that fishing vessel
45:43
really easily. So, it was there was a
45:46
sense of disappointment. I kind of felt
45:47
that maybe we we'd run out of options on
45:50
the tamper and therefore, you know, it
45:53
might be that we weren't going to find
45:54
it. So, there was definitely a sense of
45:56
disappointment,
45:57
but I'm a practical person. You know,
46:00
that's just the way it is. So, I'm not
46:02
going to let that bother me. What I'm
46:04
mainly interested in now is is getting
46:06
back on the boat. Uh, I'm the last diver
46:10
up and therefore as soon as I'm in, the
46:12
boat is going to uh start heading for
46:14
home. You can see surface conditions are
46:17
really nice. There's not too much in the
46:19
way of waves or swell when you consider
46:21
we're 50 mi offshore. We are a long,
46:24
long way offshore. It's rare to get
46:26
conditions like this, but it is really
46:28
nice and you've got to enjoy them while
46:30
you can. As you see, come up on the
46:33
boat. There's Chris operating the lift.
46:35
You can see there's some other divers on
46:36
the boat. Um, James, by the looks of
46:38
things, he's been out of the water for a
46:39
while. Uh, the guy in the red hat,
46:41
that's Paul. He is a uh he's a diver.
46:45
He's deep diver, but he's decided that
46:47
he's not doing it today, but he has
46:49
agreed to come out and help us, which
46:51
was really good of him, and it's always
46:53
really useful when you've got somebody
46:54
like that. Right, skip forward a long
46:58
time. We're now heading back. You can
47:00
see there's uh there's New Key where we
47:02
started all those hours ago. It's dark
47:05
given the fact that this is,
47:08
you know, this is May, so this is uh,
47:11
you know, this is one of the longest
47:12
days of the year or certainly getting
47:14
towards there. You can see how long
47:16
we've been out. But on the way back,
47:18
we've realized we have identified it. We
47:21
found it's the Terry, which is brilliant
47:23
news. Really happy about that.
47:27
But what we've got to do is reset
47:28
because we are going again tomorrow. And
47:31
tomorrow turns out to be the day at last
47:33
where we identify the tamper. If you've
47:35
not seen the Tampa video, I'm going to
47:37
put a link to it here. I recommend you
47:39
go and watch it. It was a brilliant
47:41
thing to be involved with. A fantastic
47:43
discovery. We were all so chuffed. But
47:47
for now, I hope you've enjoyed my video
47:49
about the discovery of the Tierry.
47:51
Please remember the two men who died on
47:53
it. Remember their families. As always,
47:57
uh please feel free to give us a like,
47:59
subscribe, share, all those kind of
48:02
things. Hype, new thing with uh with
48:04
YouTube, all that sort of stuff is
48:06
really uh useful and important for me.
48:09
But from now, I'm Dom Robinson, deep
48:12
wreck diver. I look forward to seeing
48:14
you on the next one of my videos.

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