Almost no one gets inside HMHS Britannic, the world's largest shipwreck. Access to the inside is restricted by the Greek government and the ship's owner — granted only to a handful of elite divers. But there is one place where the outside meets the inside: the Port Promenade Deck.
Over 100 metres long, stretching from stern to bridge at depths down to 83m, the Promenade was designed for first-class passengers who never made it aboard. Instead, it became a corridor for medical staff and wounded soldiers. Today, it's one of the most extraordinary dives on the world's largest shipwreck — and this is the last dive of our 2026 expedition.
In this video, I take you through the full promenade traverse alongside George — one of the most experienced Britannic divers in the world — plus Greg (inventor of the GBM rebreather) and Henry. We navigate light fittings, teak caulking, medical debris, and original fixtures that haven't been touched in over a century. The goal: reach the Cousteau plaque at 83m, placed on the wreck by Kevin Gurr, for one final photograph before we ascend into 120 minutes decompression.It's a dive that demands discipline. Strong current, strict team protocols, and the constant pull of doorways I wasn't allowed to enter. HMHS Britannic doesn't give up its secrets easily.
HMHS Britannic sank on 21st November 1918 after striking a mine in the Aegean Sea. At 48,158 tons, she remains the largest ocean liner ever lost — and one of the most hauntingly preserved wrecks in the world.
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*CHAPTERS*
00:00:00 Inside the World's Largest Shipwreck
00:01:06 Kitting Up For Britannic
00:02:35 Descending Into The Deep
00:04:03 First Sight Of Britannic
00:07:37 Entering The Promenade Deck
00:15:14 Squeezing Through The Exit Doors
00:18:26 Racing Across Britannic’s Deck
00:23:23 The Cousteau Plaque
00:25:42 Currents, Deco & The Ascent
00:31:06 Leaving Britannic Behind
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0:00
No one gets to go inside Britannic
0:02
unless you're one of a very small number
0:05
of elite divers who are sanctioned by
0:07
the Greek government and the ship's
0:09
owner. For the rest of us, what you can
0:12
do though is get a small glimpse of what
0:15
it must be like inside. And that's to go
0:17
along the port promenade deck.
0:20
Last dive on the Britannic.
0:22
And I bet you it's going to be the best.
0:24
We're going to do the promenade run.
0:27
It's one of the things we've talked
0:28
about ever since we've been here.
0:30
It's where we just go inside on that
0:31
first-class promenade. Which goes from,
0:34
you know, not far off the stern all the
0:37
way through to the bridge. We're going
0:38
to be going on there in a big line.
0:40
There's going to be George in front,
0:41
then myself, then Henry, and finally at
0:45
the back Reg picking up the tail. We're
0:47
going to pop out of there, then come all
0:49
the way back on the top of the wreck.
0:50
Reckon it's over 100 m long that
0:53
promenade run. And then we're going to
0:55
end up on the [laughter] the Jacques
0:57
Cousteau plaque for a last photo, and
0:59
then back to the shot line. And really
1:01
sadly, that'll be our dive done. But
1:04
what a way to finish. Before you finish
1:07
though, you've got to start. This is us
1:09
loading up the boats, heading out. It's
1:12
only a short journey to Britannic. 20
1:14
minutes maybe, absolute max.
1:17
By the time we get there, the shot is
1:19
already in.
1:21
But it's a useful reminder of some of
1:22
the challenges of diving this site.
1:26
That's why
1:27
we need to pay attention and stay on the
1:29
line.
1:30
There isn't enough room in the boat for
1:32
all four of us to get kitted up at once.
1:34
So, the first two get their gear sorted
1:36
out and drop in.
1:38
They're going to wait for us on the
1:39
line, but there's definitely a bit of
1:41
onus on Henry and myself at this point
1:44
to get ourselves sorted out as quickly
1:45
as possible.
1:47
And get in because the other two don't
1:49
want to be waiting round on the line for
1:51
us for too long.
1:53
The good news is by this stage of the
1:54
trip, Henry and myself are both pretty
1:56
proficient at getting kitted up in the
1:59
quickest possible time whilst also
2:02
making sure that we do everything. Last
2:04
thing anybody wants to do is get in with
2:06
something turned off or not fitted or
2:09
anything like that.
2:10
So, we're in and then you can see the
2:12
two divers, George and Greg waiting for
2:15
us nicely on the line. We're going to go
2:18
to them. George is just going to confirm
2:20
that everybody's ready and then we're
2:21
going to head on down.
2:23
I'm going to make sure my video and
2:25
everything is sorted out because I don't
2:27
want to miss this. And most of the video
2:29
that you're going to see from this dive
2:31
is from the GoPro that's mounted on the
2:33
front of the scooter.
2:35
I'll also intersperse it with a bit of
2:37
Henry's every now and again, so you'll
2:39
see uh some stuff of me. But this is on
2:42
the GoPro now. There they are. Henry at
2:44
the top. Greg has got the kind of red
2:47
orange fins and then below him, leading
2:49
the way, that is George.
2:52
I'm not going to show the full descent.
2:53
I'm going to skip forward every now and
2:55
again. You can see here, 3 minutes into
2:57
the dive, we're at 32 m. The other
3:00
divers are all in front of me.
3:02
Fast forward another 3 minutes. You can
3:04
see here, I've hit 60 m. Really
3:07
interesting thing is the color of the
3:08
water hasn't changed at all. And I think
3:11
that just shows how much ambient light
3:13
is coming down. Really unusual
3:15
conditions I'm used to in the UK,
3:17
British Isles, it would be very
3:18
different round about now.
3:20
Skip another couple of minutes. It's
3:22
still
3:23
pretty light. We're approaching 80 m.
3:27
You can just make out the shape of the
3:29
wreck.
3:30
The
3:31
bottom of it,
3:32
the hull is to my right hand side. To my
3:34
left, you can just start to see some
3:36
portholes and that's going to go up to
3:38
the promenade deck where we're heading.
3:40
The other guys, as you can see, are
3:42
putting on their deco strobes.
3:45
And this is me doing mine.
3:47
One of the amazing things about this is
3:51
even though this is my third dive
3:53
when I saw the hull and I saw the scale
3:56
of it, it took my breath away just as it
3:59
had on the very first dive that I did a
4:01
few days before this.
4:03
I don't know how many dives you need to
4:05
do on Britannic before you don't get
4:07
that sense of wonder and scale.
4:11
But I suspect it's an awful lot.
4:13
George has just given us the
4:15
check there to make sure everyone's okay
4:17
by circling his torch on the hull.
4:20
Everybody has got their strobe set. So
4:22
the next thing to do is to head up to
4:25
the entrance of the promenade deck.
4:28
We talked about this before we got in
4:30
the water. In fact, we spent quite a
4:31
long time discussing it. So everybody
4:33
knew what was happening. Everyone was
4:35
agreed with the plan. So it was now all
4:38
about executing it.
4:40
The good news is that we have George who
4:42
has probably dived the exterior of
4:45
Britannic more than anybody else in
4:48
existence,
4:49
which of course means that we know he's
4:51
going to take us there. The important
4:53
part is for us to make sure that we're
4:56
doing our bit, which at this moment in
4:58
time essentially consists of telling
5:01
George that we're okay and we're ready
5:03
to move over to the wreck. Now one thing
5:06
I just draw your attention to here is
5:09
the first thing that Greg has just got
5:10
himself briefly entangled in the shot
5:12
line, but also you'll see that the shot
5:13
line was laying pretty much flat against
5:16
the wreck. When we come back to it later
5:18
on, you'll see that position has changed
5:20
a lot.
5:21
And I think one of the things that does
5:22
is show how strong the current can be on
5:25
Britannic.
5:27
But that's for later on in the dive. For
5:29
now,
5:30
as you can see, George is heading over
5:32
towards the stern, towards the entrance
5:36
to the promenade. You can see Henry's in
5:38
there behind him. You can actually see
5:39
the promenade deck. It's just over to
5:41
the left-hand side. I can only imagine
5:44
what the view out of that must have been
5:46
like
5:47
in the moments before the sinking, but
5:49
also when the ship was
5:52
just traveling around. Imagine leaving
5:55
Belfast. Imagine the all the places that
5:59
Britannic went before it ended up here.
6:01
Imagine the people who would have walked
6:03
down there. The crew, but also the
6:06
medical staff,
6:07
wounded soldiers, all of those kind of
6:10
things. It must have must have been an
6:11
incredible number of people had had
6:13
traveled on that. And and from me,
6:15
whenever I'm wreck diving,
6:17
I love the wrecks. I love seeing um
6:20
the the metal and the fixtures and the
6:22
fittings, but I also always think about
6:24
the stories and the people.
6:27
Now, there was That was a first-class uh
6:29
promenade that we're going to go on.
6:31
There's also a second-class one, which
6:32
is just where uh Henry, who's the guy
6:35
with the uh twinset on, he's just going
6:38
over the top of that. So, it it wasn't
6:40
just the first-class passengers, not
6:42
that Britannic had first-class
6:43
passengers, but it was meant to be
6:45
first-class passengers.
6:47
Everybody had the opportunity, or
6:49
certainly the first and second-class
6:51
people had the opportunity to to take in
6:53
the air, to take in the view. No idea
6:56
what happened to the third-class people.
6:57
Uh perhaps uh
6:59
they they weren't fortunate enough.
7:02
One of the things about making these
7:03
videos on Britannic is they are watched
7:06
by, I think, a lot of ocean liner
7:08
enthusiasts,
7:10
the kind of people who know lots of
7:12
details about Titanic and other other
7:14
liners. Um some of the comments I get
7:17
from those people are absolutely
7:18
fascinating.
7:20
They tell me stuff I don't know. They
7:21
correct me when I say things uh
7:24
say things wrong. So, if you're one of
7:26
those people and, you know, I've said
7:28
something that's not right, or you want
7:29
to add a bit to to to it, then then
7:32
please, you know, just stick it in the
7:33
comments. It would be It would be great
7:35
to hear it.
7:37
As you can see, just starting to go
7:39
along now,
7:40
Henry
7:42
knew that I was going in second, so he's
7:44
moved out of the way to to leave me to
7:46
go in. And the reason is because I've
7:47
got the the video on the front of my
7:50
scooter, and therefore the viewers I'm
7:53
probably going to get the best footage.
7:55
From time to time, I'm going to cut to
7:57
Henry's footage, as you can see here.
8:00
So, that's him videoing me. And in a
8:03
moment, you're going to see I spot
8:04
something interesting, and I turn my
8:07
scooter and point it downwards to have a
8:10
video inside. I'm sure I don't need to
8:12
tell you that I'm looking into these
8:14
rooms thinking
8:16
I would really really love to go in
8:19
there.
8:21
This is back to my footage. You can see
8:23
I'm following George along. In a moment,
8:25
I'm going to see those rooms. Uh George
8:27
is just going over the top of them now.
8:29
So, I'll kind of weave my way through a
8:32
bit of stuff that's fallen down from the
8:34
roof.
8:35
There's all sorts of bits and pieces.
8:38
Later on, I'm going to show you some of
8:39
the light fittings. There's pipe work.
8:41
There's cables.
8:43
All sorts of bits and pieces. Bits of
8:45
medical equipment, trolleys, all sorts
8:47
of things. But you can see that looking
8:49
into that room
8:51
I clearly I'm not going to get in there,
8:52
but that is super inviting. And no
8:54
doubt, just up here somewhere there is
8:56
going to be a door.
8:58
I'm going to resist temptation.
9:01
But the temptation is definitely
9:04
there. And you can see me just looking
9:06
down into things. Now, you're not going
9:07
to be able to get into that one. There's
9:09
too much stuff in the way, but somewhere
9:11
up here is going to be one.
9:13
You can see those cables I talked about.
9:15
You can also see all sorts of other bits
9:17
and pieces that have fallen down. You
9:19
can see where the teak decking would
9:21
have been. The the wood the teak has
9:23
gone, but the caulking is still there.
9:27
That would have been in between the
9:29
timber just to give it a nice smooth
9:32
surface.
9:33
I think one of the interesting things is
9:35
how the
9:36
space that there is to walk gets wider
9:39
and thinner.
9:40
I have no idea why that is. Perhaps it
9:42
Well, it must have been something to do
9:43
with what was inside.
9:46
You can also see, I think, that there's
9:48
gaps like this one off to the left-hand
9:50
side going down to the the promenade
9:52
deck below it, the second class one.
9:55
Once again, all of these things I would
9:57
love to explore.
9:59
>> [screaming]
10:00
>> We're just really scratching the
10:01
surface. I think I've said that on all
10:03
all the videos.
10:05
I would love to come back and do this
10:06
again, maybe do it from the other end,
10:09
or
10:10
just do it a bit slower, maybe do it in
10:12
chunks, spend some more time underwater.
10:16
This is really These three dives that
10:18
we've done are just
10:20
familiarization,
10:22
not even familiarizing myself.
10:25
I've just jumped back. This is Henry's
10:27
video, so you can see me at the
10:29
beginning of that sequence where I
10:30
talked about the promenade deck getting
10:32
uh thinner. You can see some of those
10:34
holes that I mentioned. There's the
10:36
first one there. There's the second one
10:38
just coming up in front of me.
10:41
>> [screaming]
10:41
>> I think it's useful to see it from from
10:45
behind to see what I'm doing. There you
10:46
go, you can see me pointing the scooter
10:48
down. I You've seen the video that I I
10:50
got from doing that.
10:52
I think the other thing with this is You
10:54
can see, even though it feels like
10:56
you're inside the wreck, it feels like
10:57
you're penetrating it, you're not really
10:59
because uh pretty much almost any time
11:03
you could exit above.
11:05
There is some areas where it's a bit
11:07
more tricky than others, but most of the
11:09
time you're going to be able to get up
11:10
there without too many problems.
11:13
Back to me again.
11:14
You can see George is keeping the pace
11:16
going.
11:17
He knows how long this is. He knows the
11:20
amount of time it's going to take us to
11:21
get to the end and then all the way back
11:23
to the shop. So, part of his role is
11:26
just to make sure that we do keep
11:28
cracking on.
11:29
You can see Henry is quite close behind
11:31
me. I'm the one who's being slow.
11:35
And it really it's because I'm just
11:36
trying to take it all in.
11:39
Trying to store these sights into my
11:42
brain.
11:43
It's one of the reasons why it's so
11:45
good, for me anyway, to have all this
11:47
video footage because
11:49
I just couldn't I couldn't compute it. I
11:51
couldn't absorb it all. So, the
11:53
opportunity to put it in my brain is is
11:56
what the video's give me. Probably see
11:57
there there's a light fitting. I just
11:59
had a quick look at it. I've seen
12:01
fittings to that or similar to that on
12:03
the Lusitania.
12:05
Not in any sort of position like that,
12:07
just lying on the floor. So, it's
12:10
fascinating to see them in situ.
12:13
And once again to imagine what this must
12:15
have been like at night with all those
12:16
light bulbs on. Once again, you can see
12:18
there's a little hole in the floor
12:20
there. The other thing I think you can
12:22
start to see is debris
12:25
on the
12:26
the at the bottom there. Now, I am told
12:29
that those are or believed to be the
12:31
remains of of beds or trolleys or some
12:35
of the medical stuff.
12:36
I think probably on a normal liner you
12:39
would have got benches and stuff out
12:41
here. So, people who were walking down
12:43
the deck, if they wanted to, they could
12:44
stop and have a rest.
12:47
Those I assume are either buried under
12:49
all those shells or weren't fitted to
12:51
Britannic. Instead, it had all this
12:53
medical kit. And you can imagine how
12:55
good it would have been for patients to
12:58
sit out on the deck, particularly in the
13:00
Mediterranean, getting the sea air,
13:04
getting the sun on themselves.
13:07
You can imagine the scene or certainly I
13:09
can imagine the scene. And And that's
13:11
why all those beds and stuff are here.
13:13
Once again, you can see on the right all
13:15
those cables and stuff. Anybody who has
13:18
seen the video that I did with Richie
13:20
Kohler where he shared some of the
13:23
video from inside,
13:25
you can
13:26
see tons tons more of those cables. And
13:29
I think it's one of the things that was
13:31
maybe relatively unusual at this time.
13:33
Oh, just before I continue talking about
13:35
that, you can see there there's I think
13:37
that's a water fountain outside the
13:39
door.
13:41
Once again, you can imagine maybe people
13:42
coming out and using that water
13:44
fountain. Might have been a hand basin.
13:46
I don't know. There is another hand
13:48
basin
13:49
later on.
13:50
In fact, there we go. You can just see
13:52
it coming into view now.
13:54
No idea why there was a basin out on the
13:56
deck.
13:58
Maybe
13:59
there was a toilet inside or something.
14:01
I don't know. But, there it is anyway.
14:03
It's clearly a hand basin. Don't know
14:05
what it's for. No doubt somebody who
14:07
knows far more about these ships than I
14:09
do will will put something in the
14:11
comments and will educate me. There's
14:13
also a a window there. So, maybe that
14:16
was a toilet. Don't know.
14:18
Maybe there was a toilet inside and you
14:19
could wash your hands when you came out.
14:20
Who knows? George, as you can see, there
14:23
is cracking on.
14:24
I'm definitely feeling a bit of pressure
14:26
to follow him. If you're following my
14:28
dive computer, you can see I've been
14:31
underwater about 17 minutes here.
14:34
Don't know what that is. Maybe that is a
14:37
radiator. Not sure why it'd be on the
14:39
outside of the ship, but that there is
14:41
definitely a fan.
14:44
Once again,
14:45
don't know necessarily why you would
14:47
have that there. There's a whole load
14:49
more windows.
14:51
Slightly different to the windows that
14:53
you often see, um, the sliding ones, the
14:55
ones that rotate. Those are just kind of
14:58
normal windows. Another radiator there,
15:00
perhaps. Another door. All super
15:03
inviting.
15:05
One of the things that George briefed us
15:07
about was he said right at the end of
15:09
the deck there are two doors, and
15:11
they're quite tight to get through. He
15:14
said to and you can see he's just got to
15:16
them now.
15:17
The technique he advised was to try and
15:21
go through almost at a bit of an angle
15:23
with your head pointing down and it once
15:26
your head was through you then kind of
15:28
brought your
15:29
bum and your fins down and then came
15:31
through the rest of it. So, this is what
15:35
I am going to do now. I've got my
15:36
scooter through first. That is the easy
15:39
bit. And I have to now get the rest of
15:42
my body through.
15:44
I was surprised it wasn't as difficult
15:46
as I thought it was going to be.
15:48
And
15:49
as you can see here, managed to get
15:51
through without too many problems. What
15:52
I then thought I it would be good to do
15:54
would be to turn around and get some
15:56
footage of Henry coming through. He was
15:59
also super swift. As you can see, he's
16:02
got himself through
16:04
probably even quicker than I did. That's
16:07
pretty impressive when you consider he's
16:09
got a chest mount rebreather and he's
16:11
got those big twins on his back.
16:14
George is waiting for us outside because
16:17
of course it's not just me, it's not
16:18
just Henry.
16:20
Right the way at the back somewhere is
16:22
Greg. He needs to be getting out. He's
16:24
probably got the best configuration for
16:26
getting through this.
16:28
He's got the front mount rebreather but
16:30
then his bailout cylinders are all side
16:33
mounted. So, that probably makes it a
16:35
lot easier for getting through a tight
16:37
space like that.
16:39
This is Henry. You can see that his kit
16:41
makes him quite wide.
16:44
But it's a configuration that he put a
16:45
lot of time and thought into. If you
16:48
haven't watched his video about why he
16:50
chose this setup, it's absolutely
16:53
fascinating. Very different paradigm to
16:55
what I am used to.
16:58
And
16:59
absolutely fascinating. It was one of
17:01
the great things about this trip is
17:03
you know, I've done a lot of diving with
17:05
people with other rebreathers, other
17:08
setups.
17:09
And but I've never really spent much
17:12
time with people on front mount rigs.
17:16
So, it was absolutely fascinating to
17:18
understand them and I even managed to do
17:21
a couple of dives on the GBM, the
17:22
generic breathing machine.
17:25
I'll cover those in another video.
17:27
You see Henry's flashing away at me and
17:29
the reason is because he wanted a little
17:31
bit of video showing his Orc Torch setup
17:35
and how good it is. This is the Orc
17:37
Torch ZD710.
17:40
It's
17:41
He's got it wrist mounted, you can see
17:42
there.
17:44
And one of the really nice things about
17:45
it is you can change the focus on the
17:46
beam. So, if you want something like
17:48
this, which is super narrow
17:51
and can be used in exactly the way that
17:53
he's using it for signaling, that works
17:55
really well. What you can also do is
17:57
change the focus the other way and it
18:00
turns it into a video light.
18:02
He doesn't have a video light, so
18:04
everything he has taken, all the video
18:07
of me, was either shot using ambient
18:09
light or that ZD710 as a video light.
18:13
It's a really impressive bit of kit.
18:15
I've had the opportunity to use one as
18:17
well.
18:18
Really like it, especially the soft
18:20
Goodman handle that Henry is using.
18:22
Wrist mounted works super well.
18:26
You can see that George has realized
18:28
that everyone's out, so Henry's just to
18:30
my right, Greg is just underneath me,
18:32
you saw the front of his scooter,
18:34
and therefore we are cracking on back to
18:37
the Cousteau plaque,
18:39
which is 70, 80, 90 m away from where we
18:43
are now.
18:44
We want to get a photo there and then
18:46
George wants to get us back to the shot
18:48
line. You can see the TTS is 92 minutes,
18:52
which is already we've got an hour and a
18:54
half of deco to do.
18:57
We're at 90 m. This is not far off one
19:00
of the shallowest parts of the wreck.
19:02
We're just back from the bridge here, so
19:04
that the funnels would be off to the
19:06
area to my left here.
19:08
You can see Greg's poked off. I'm
19:11
absolutely fascinated. In fact, there is
19:13
one of the entrance to the funnels just
19:15
below me there.
19:17
I know that this is my last dive on
19:19
Britannic.
19:21
Certainly in the foreseeable future.
19:24
All I want to do is maximize my time,
19:28
maximize the opportunity that that I get
19:31
to see stuff. So, you can see here I've
19:32
I've actually dropped a bit further
19:34
down. Looking up, there you can see some
19:37
of the lifeboat davits. You can see
19:39
Looking up at the wreck there, it's it's
19:41
incredible. I actually want to go deeper
19:43
than this. I I I've not been to the
19:46
seabed on this
19:48
uh this trip. I I would really like to
19:49
do that, but but I don't get the
19:51
opportunity to do it because
19:53
as I think I've mentioned in some of my
19:55
other videos, this is about team diving.
19:57
This is about us sticking together.
20:00
And that has got to be the most
20:02
important thing rather than me doing
20:05
what I want to do on the wreck.
20:07
That kind of hurts a bit though.
20:10
I am feeling it a bit at this point, but
20:13
I know I've got to be good. I've got to
20:15
play nicely. I've got to go and join the
20:18
rest of them. And there you go, Henry is
20:20
just there above the top of the wreck.
20:22
One of the things this does result in
20:24
though is a rather nice bit of footage.
20:27
So, there is Greg and you can see me
20:28
just coming up over the side of
20:30
Britannic there giving a nice okay
20:33
signal. And I love that bit of video.
20:36
Back to mine though, there they all are
20:38
waiting for me.
20:40
Possibly wagging their fingers a bit
20:41
going, "Come on Dom, what are you up to?
20:44
We need to be cracking on. We need to go
20:45
and find this Cousteau plaque." Because
20:48
it's quite a long way back on the top of
20:50
the wreck even though it's
20:52
only 83 m.
20:55
That's still deep, of course. And we're
20:57
still racking up the deco time. Anybody
20:59
who's watching my TTS there, you can see
21:03
it. If you see the graph in the bottom,
21:05
you can also see that big step where
21:06
I've probably come up
21:08
over 10 m. And here we go, heading
21:11
along.
21:12
Everyone's gunning it on the scooters.
21:14
This is quite good fun, actually. Just
21:16
blasting along the side of uh Britannic.
21:20
Left to my own devices,
21:22
I'd probably gone back into the
21:23
promenade deck and blasted all the way
21:25
back along there.
21:27
But that wasn't the plan. That wasn't
21:29
what we agreed to do. This is This is
21:31
what we said.
21:33
As we go along, I think one of the
21:35
interesting things you can see are the
21:37
changes to the exterior of promenade
21:40
deck. So, where we are here, it's only
21:43
small windows. A bit further on, in
21:45
fact, you can just start to see coming
21:47
into view here, it gets much wider.
21:49
There's also that curve there.
21:51
Don't really know why that is. Does that
21:53
align with some of the changes that
21:54
we've seen inside where it goes thinner
21:56
or wider?
21:58
Were those sections reserved for other
22:00
people? I don't know. Once again, I'm
22:02
sure that somebody out there who is
22:04
watching this video will know, and I'd
22:05
love to hear the answer in the comments.
22:08
Moving along, you can see more of the
22:10
lifeboat davits. Those are the the big
22:12
things on the side.
22:14
They would have been used when Britannic
22:16
sunk, when it hit that mine. As it was
22:19
going down, they would have launched the
22:20
lifeboats.
22:22
Some of those lifeboats were the ones
22:24
that got dragged into the port prop and
22:26
killed the people who died
22:29
The only casualties from the sinking
22:31
were were when lifeboats were launched
22:33
too early and ended up getting chopped
22:35
up. There's the famous story of Violet
22:37
Jessop who was
22:40
claims that she was hit by one of the uh
22:43
props. She survived,
22:46
albeit later on in life they diagnosed
22:48
her with a fractured skull. She also had
22:51
the misfortune to be involved She was on
22:55
Titanic when it sunk. She was also
22:57
involved when HMS Hawke hit Olympic. So,
23:01
the three Olympic-class liners, she was
23:04
on them all and was involved in some of
23:06
the most significant
23:08
incidents in their history.
23:12
I'm still not entirely sure whether she
23:14
was extremely lucky or extremely unlucky
23:19
or possibly, quite possibly both. You
23:22
can see that George has stopped. He is
23:24
shining his torch on the Cousteau plaque
23:27
which was
23:29
put on the wreck of Britannic by Kevin
23:31
Gurr. It's not secured in any way, so it
23:34
has fallen off in the past and people
23:36
have recovered it and put it where it is
23:38
now. But, we wanted a photo
23:40
pretty much the last thing that we did
23:41
on Britannic, all three of us on the
23:43
trip
23:44
with that
23:46
plaque. We thought it was a a nice way
23:48
to finish.
23:50
One of the problems with organizing
23:51
underwater photos for anyone who's ever
23:53
done it is they are a bit of a pain.
23:57
That's even more of a pain when you've
23:58
got three people carrying all the kind
24:01
of gear that we've got and you're going
24:03
to see in a moment, I'm going to switch
24:05
from my video to Henry's video. He's in
24:07
the process of handing it over to George
24:09
and then he's then going to come and
24:10
join us because, of course, he wants to
24:12
be in it. I've just shut off the GoPro
24:15
video, otherwise I'd get loads of GoPro
24:17
video of the side of the hull.
24:21
We did talk about how we were going to
24:22
do this photo before we got in the water
24:25
and I think that's a really important
24:27
thing to do. It meant that we were all
24:30
aligned, we all understood what was
24:31
going to happen and that made it easier
24:34
to do because the last thing you want to
24:36
be doing at this depth, at this point in
24:38
the dive, you can see our TTS is up to 2
24:41
hours, is to be messing around.
24:45
We switched to Henry's video there. He's
24:48
on the left, heading over towards me.
24:51
You can see Greg is in the middle, the
24:53
inventor of the GUE rebreather that
24:55
Henry and himself are using. Also, the
24:58
owner of Scubatron. There is me on the
25:02
right. We're trying to get ourselves all
25:05
in together. It's It's not the easiest
25:07
thing in the world.
25:09
Henry did get a fairly decent still out
25:10
of this. So, that is that is quite good.
25:13
And there
25:16
George is illuminating the plaque.
25:19
There we go. That is the moment. That is
25:21
the photo.
25:23
And that's me pointing at it just in
25:25
case anybody is in any doubt where it
25:27
was.
25:28
Right, photo is done.
25:31
TTS 125 minutes.
25:34
We've been
25:36
on the wreck, I guess, for 20 minutes.
25:38
We probably hit the bottom about minute
25:39
eight. So,
25:41
that's not long at all. But, that's the
25:43
reality of this kind of diving is you've
25:46
just got to You've got to suck it up.
25:48
You're not going to get much bottom
25:49
time. You're going to spend But, you're
25:51
going to spend a long time in the water.
25:52
George is off. Next thing to do is head
25:55
back to the shot line. You can see I've
25:56
clocked it there. I can see the strobes.
25:59
One of the things I think that confused
26:01
us all a bit is that the current had
26:03
picked up. And when that happened, it
26:05
lifted the strobes. It lifted the shot
26:07
line off the wreck quite a lot. So, we
26:10
were all expecting those strobes to be
26:12
much lower down, but they weren't.
26:16
So, it's incredible, really, that in
26:19
>> [screaming]
26:19
>> just 20 minutes, the current has picked
26:22
up quite a lot.
26:24
As I head up, you can see there I'm just
26:26
having a last look at Britannic.
26:29
I can also see the other divers who are
26:31
a bit lower down than me. But, I think
26:33
that's really useful for understanding
26:36
the scale of the wreck. Also, it shows
26:39
how great the visibility is.
26:42
I don't get to dive in viz like this
26:44
very much,
26:46
but it blows my mind when I do. It's
26:48
It's so nice. It's such an improvement
26:51
on what I what I normally do.
26:53
Next item on the agenda, as always, is
26:56
to take our strobes off the line. These
26:59
three strobes here, one of them is
27:01
George's, one of them is Henry's, one of
27:03
them is Greg's.
27:05
I use my double strobes, which are just
27:07
a bit further up the line. I think
27:09
they're going to go going to come into
27:10
view in a moment.
27:12
One of the things I get asked quite a
27:14
lot is how do I secure them to the line?
27:16
The piece of metal that I use there is
27:18
called a John clip, so it's exactly the
27:20
same thing that you would use on a John
27:22
line, but it works really well for
27:24
securing strobes, as well.
27:27
You can see Henry is keen to get up the
27:29
shot line. One of the mistakes, I think,
27:32
that people starting technical diving
27:34
often make is they still assume that a
27:36
slow ascent is a good ascent. That's
27:39
kind of what you're taught in
27:40
recreational diving. I can tell you it's
27:43
absolutely not the case for this. You
27:45
need to get off the bottom quickly. You
27:47
need to get up to your deco stops as
27:49
quickly as you can.
27:51
Ideally, at the maximum rate that your
27:53
computer will allow you to do, or if
27:55
you're feeling particularly cheeky,
27:57
as fast as you fast as you feel as
28:00
though you can.
28:01
One of the things I do is I do
28:04
relatively rapid ascents from the bottom
28:08
up until about half the distance from
28:10
the bottom to my first deco stop. I then
28:13
go to the computer's maximum rate of
28:15
ascent from then to the first deco stop.
28:18
People have their own opinions on that.
28:20
All I would say is it's something that
28:22
works well for me, and it makes sense.
28:25
You stay down deep, you are going to be
28:27
outgassing, you're going to incur more
28:28
deco. So, don't do that. Get off the
28:31
bottom. Get up.
28:33
And the rate of change of pressure near
28:37
the bottom is much less than it is close
28:40
to the surface. So, that's the kind of
28:42
rationalization in my head.
28:44
You can see I am not hanging around. I'm
28:47
getting up nice and quickly. You can
28:48
also see that Henry above me is doing
28:51
the same. The other two guys, there's
28:53
Greg, he's following behind me, and
28:55
below him is George as well. They're
28:57
also coming up at a reasonable rate of
28:59
knots because we know
29:02
that you need to get up shallow,
29:03
otherwise you're just going to be on
29:04
gassing. You can probably see my TTS is
29:06
131 minutes here. It was 128 when I got
29:10
to my strobes. So, even though I've come
29:13
up quite a long way, my TTS has only
29:15
just started reducing.
29:17
Skip forward. You can see at 50-odd
29:20
meters there, and it's time to change my
29:22
PO2 to 1.5. That's not far off my first
29:27
deco stop. You can see the impact it has
29:29
instantly on my TTS, which went from 130
29:34
to about 114,
29:36
which is a pretty decent saving and well
29:39
worth having.
29:40
I'm now further up the line above the
29:43
point where the lazy shot, as they call
29:46
it, joins on the main shot line. I'm
29:48
looking up there, and you can see the
29:50
deco station above me. It's It's almost
29:52
triangular shape.
29:54
One The The point of the triangle is
29:56
joined onto the main shot line, and this
29:58
line that's here with me is the lazy
30:00
shot and goes up to the middle of the
30:03
deco trapeze.
30:05
I'm now on the deco trapeze, so you can
30:07
see really clearly the triangular shape.
30:10
The The apex of that triangle is on the
30:12
shot line. You can see the lazy shot
30:14
line in in the middle of the deco bar.
30:16
That goes down to about 20-odd meters
30:19
where we
30:21
uh get our first gas as a 50% mix down
30:24
there. That's where the support divers
30:25
normally turn up. You can see here on
30:28
the deco trapeze, there's a 100% mix
30:30
hanging on that cylinder. There's also
30:32
those two lines that hang down, and
30:34
they've got weights on the end of them.
30:36
The whole thing keeps the trapeze stable
30:39
even though even when there's quite a
30:41
lot of current as there is at the
30:42
moment. Just next to me there, that's
30:45
George. He's on his scooter, scootering
30:48
into the current. He's just checking how
30:49
much deco I've got left. I'm the last up
30:53
diver other than George. The other two
30:54
have surfaced already.
30:56
He does this. He stays in the water,
30:58
make sure everyone has cleared their
31:00
deco, and then he is the last person
31:02
out.
31:04
And this is it. My deco is now cleared.
31:05
You can see one of the support divers is
31:07
in the water.
31:09
They're just getting ready to
31:10
disassemble the whole system. They'll go
31:12
down the bottom. They'll release the
31:14
lazy shots.
31:15
And then the whole thing will get
31:16
recovered onto the second boat.
31:19
For me, this is quite a a sad moment
31:23
because this is the last dive in Greece.
31:27
This is
31:28
Yeah, it's been a great trip. Fantastic
31:31
expedition. I've made so many friends.
31:33
I've had such a good time. I've dived
31:36
one of the absolute bucket list wrecks.
31:41
But as always with any sort of diving,
31:43
you can't be too emotional because
31:46
there's always something to do. So,
31:47
reflection will come later. What I need
31:49
to do now is get myself sorted and get
31:52
out of the water.
31:54
You can see the conditions are a little
31:56
bit lumpy. We've had better. We've had
31:58
worse on this trip, so it's not going to
32:01
be a problem.
32:03
Especially with all these people on the
32:05
boat ready and willing to give you all
32:09
the help you need to get out of the
32:10
water. Loads of kit to get off,
32:12
scooters, cylinders. First of all, my
32:15
dive boat that I've been watching while
32:17
on deco stops.
32:21
Hi there. Oh, man.
32:23
Last dive on the Britannic.
32:25
What a belter.
32:27
Absolutely brilliant.
32:30
Down
32:31
along the promenade deck.
32:33
Out in the area kind of by the bridge.
32:37
All the way along the top,
32:39
Jac Custeau Plateau,
32:41
and then back up
32:43
with a little bit of current once again,
32:46
just to keep this fascinating tape.
32:49
Great three dives on the Britannic,
32:50
absolutely wonderful.
32:52
Just need to come back there.
32:54
Yes, you are.
32:57
So, that was the last of my three dives
32:59
on the Britannic. If you haven't watched
33:01
the other ones, I'm going to put the
33:02
links in the comments.
33:05
I've got a whole load of videos on
33:07
liners, unidentified shipwreck, a whole
33:09
load of things which I hope you will
33:12
take the time to have a look at and
33:15
enjoy. But, for now, I am Deep Wreck
33:18
Diver Dom Robinson. Hope you've enjoyed
33:21
my video, and I will look forward to
33:24
seeing you on the next one.
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