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On this thrilling CCR dive, the long-lost mystery of a century-old shipwreck is finally unveiled! In breathtaking conditions, a skilled team of technical divers descends 80 metres (260 feet) into the depths of the English Channel and uncovers a colossal shipwreck. The discovery of crockery on the site unlocks its secrets!
Once known as the Henriette Woermann, the SS Polymnia was built in Hamburg and operated by the Woermann Linie KG until it was captured in Douala (Cameroon) by HMS Cumberland and given a new name. Managed by the renowned Cunard line, the Polymnia met its fate when it was sunk by the German submarine UC-75, commanded by Johannes Lohs, on 15 May 1917, claiming 8 lives. It has remained lost for over 100 years until we solved the wreck mystery!
*Highlights*
00:00 Introduction
06:29 The crockery MYSTERY!
10:24 The fabulous bow
12:11 Finding the bell???
12:42 Henriette Woermann of the Woermann Linie KG
15:05 Story of the SS Polymnia
16:28 UC-75 and the famous Johannes Lohs
19:37 Engine room
24:00 Return to the shot
26:24 Decompression profile & dive gas
*Thanks*
Rick Ayrton for his stunning photos
In Deep - https://indeep.co.uk/
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sometimes when you're trying to identify
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shipwrecks you get two conflicting
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pieces of evidence that make the whole
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thing seem really confusing what's
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absolutely brilliant though is when you
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manage to put the jigsaw puzzle together
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and you get something that all of a
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sudden allows that to make sense that's
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exactly what happened to us about 6
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months after we dived a stunning wreck
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in 80 m of water off the southwest coast
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of Cornwall it was a banger of a dive
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and a fantastic outcome so pin your ears
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back and listen in for the story of the
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SS Polyina i think you're going to love
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it before I crack on though I know it's
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a bit cheeky this early in the video but
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if you could give us a like that would
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be really appreciated this story starts
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like many other ones with us going out
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to dive an unknown Mark the only
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information we have on this wreck comes
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from the UK hydrographic office and as
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you can see it's pretty sparse but it
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looks really interesting which is why
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we're out here this is a bit further
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west than many of my dives we've left
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Plymouth and taken the boat to Nuland
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which is the most westerly port in
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England and from here we've come out
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about 13 miles to dive the wreck now the
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great thing about diving in this part of
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the world is that there are so many
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undived wrecks or wrecks that have only
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been dived once this area the western
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approaches is an incredible diving
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location i'm fortunate enough to have
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done several trips down here and they've
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all been awesome but this one as you can
1:34
see we've got this wreck that stands 10
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m proud of the seabed which is really
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unusual so we're uh we're on our way
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down as you can see here actually close
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to the bottom i don't know why but I
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didn't start my uh my video before this
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rick and myself are diving together as
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normal second pair in although that's
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not actually strictly two because
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there's only three divers today so one
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divers's down already rick and myself
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because we've got scooters we're coming
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in after him and here I am you can see
2:04
just getting my strobe on for some
2:06
reason I've only got one strobe on this
2:08
dive i guess the other one must have
2:09
been broken um and you can see this
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one's not entirely playing ball either
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so it's uh it's not a great day but
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luckily there's other people on the
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strobe other strobes on the line and I
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know Rick will have his on and actually
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as you can see the visibility is
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incredible this is 80 m down um normally
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video lights kind of do obscure the the
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visibility bit but you can see here it's
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absolutely wonderful you can also see
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there's a really nasty bit of fishing
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line in the water and this wreck was
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absolutely covered in it as you'll see
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later on one kind of slightly negative
2:44
bit as you can see here is I haven't got
2:45
the white balance settings correct on my
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parallel lens so I'm getting this kind
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of reddy orange glow which uh is really
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irritating and I'll just get it out
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there and say sorry for that right now
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anyway so as always when you get onto a
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wreck like this it's like trying to
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figure out where where we are now I
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happen to know this is the stern of the
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wreck and so I'm going to put you out of
3:09
the misery on that one but at this point
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in the dive I'm still trying to figure
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out exactly where I am and you can see
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there I'm kind of heading for the
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highest bit and this bit of the wreck
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here you can see there's a bit of hull
3:19
that's fallen over and it's actually on
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the I'm on the port side there so I'm
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going to I'm going to come over into the
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middle of the wreck which is going to
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put me probably closer to the starboard
3:29
side and then I'm going to start moving
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forward so just off to my bottom right
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there was probably the number four hold
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there you can see is the is a cargo
3:38
winch so that would have been in between
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the number three and the number four
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hold and that's how they would have got
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the cargo out up in front of me there
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that's a number three hold that's
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interesting because as we subsequently
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discovered the torpedo hit on the
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starboard side in the number three hold
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so as I'm looking at it here it's just
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on the right hand side that is where the
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um the torpedo hit and you can see the
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wreck actually has got a list over to
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the starboard side we'll see more of
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that later on i've just spotted a port
4:07
hole there and that's a pretty good sign
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that this wreck hasn't been dived very
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much wrecks that have been dived a lot
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you don't tend to see these things you
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probably just see there just that I'm
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just put the torch on another port hole
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and in fact as I move up this side of
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the wreck I just there's a line of port
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holes there's another one um so there is
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a ton of port holes on on this wreck
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which which and there in fact is another
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one and another one so there I've lost
4:33
count of how many I've seen there five
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or six already absolutely incredible so
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this is kind of the accommodation area
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aft of the bridge that I'm going along
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now the engine bay is down to my left
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hand side i'm on the starboard side
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there's another port hole in fact a
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whole load more port holes there's one
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two three perhaps there in front of me
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now they're all ironbacked so this kind
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of port hole the bit that attaches to
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the ship is made of iron the window that
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would open that is made of brass and
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obviously the the open and closes as
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well so there's another one inside the
5:06
wreck and this bit here is probably this
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is in and around the bridge area so what
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I'm doing is I'm obviously looking for
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any of the bridge gear but also you
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sometimes get bells in this area as well
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so got to remember this is a completely
5:20
unknown mark we know nothing about it
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other than the length of it uh the
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height it stands up on the seabed and
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the the beam as well so this is the
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information that we've got off the UK
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hydrographic office website so we're now
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down here at nearly 80 m we've got maybe
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30 minutes on the wreck and in that time
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we've got to try and get as much
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information as we can about it as
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possible and so that's that's what I'm
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trying to do clearly what I want to do
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is find something with some information
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on it maybe a bell maybe as maker's
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plate maybe a piece of crockery anything
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like that that can help us um identify
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it so um I'm going to put you a bit out
6:01
of your misery because I've already at
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the beginning of this video showed you
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that we brought up two pieces of
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crockery and those combined with the
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size of the wreck and some other
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information such as um the fact it was a
6:14
steam ship the number of boilers etc the
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length of it that is what has allowed us
6:20
to identify the wreck the thing that was
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really confusing though was the fact
6:24
that we had crockery made by two
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different companies not any of them made
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by two different companies one of them
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was from Germany and one of them was
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from the UK the UK one was from uh
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Kunard line really well-known shipping
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line the German one was kind of used by
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lots and lots of different shipping
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lines so trying to figure out what had
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gone on there was was really confusing
6:47
perhaps somebody had taken one from
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another ship as some sort of souvenir
6:52
that was about the best we could come up
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with until we had our Eureka moment well
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I say we had our Eureka moments james
6:59
Belooza skipper of Seeker one of the In
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Deep crew he was the man who had the
7:03
Eureka moment i'm going to come back to
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that in a minute and the reason is
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because this is where on the ship the
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crockery came from you can see it there
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just uh in the picture i'm just putting
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my torch on it now you're going to see
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me in a second i go over there i have a
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look at it i take it out and I pretty
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much dismiss it which I have to say was
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a really foolish thing to do because I
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didn't bring any of this crockery up but
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I learned my lesson and anybody who's
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seen my video about the discovery of
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another Kunard line ship the Na will see
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that I I did bring crockery up on that a
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broken plate and that's what allowed us
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to to identify it in this particular
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case I just have a quick look at those
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things can't see a shipping line logo on
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it and sack it and move off um one of
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the other divers who was you know
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clearly much more sensible than me they
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went and they brought up a couple of
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those plates and those are the ones that
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you've seen already and those are the
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ones that solved the mystery so massive
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kudos to him it didn't solve it
8:02
immediately though because we still had
8:03
this dilemma about a German plate and a
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British plate and how did that all work
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together so James was on his boat about
8:13
six months later we'd all looked into it
8:15
we'd all try and find found out
8:16
different things james was on the boat
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and he's chatting with one of his
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customers and he said you know there's
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no we haven't been able to find records
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of any Kunard ship sunk in this area and
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the customer was like oh my dad wrote
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the definitive book on Kunard shipwrecks
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and so I'm going to put you in touch
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with him so that's exactly what happened
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we we got in touch with the gentleman
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who wrote the the book that you've seen
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earlier on and he explained exactly what
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had happened and it's it's a really
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interesting story and another one of
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these things that has been completely
8:53
forgotten over time so I'm going to come
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to that in a minute and the reason I'm
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going to come to it in a minute because
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on the dive I am just getting to the bow
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and the bow is the the loveliest part of
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this wreck it's the bit that stands up
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10 meters tall which is absolutely
9:09
incredible the ship is sitting on a a
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pretty solid seabed so so it's upright
9:14
but the fact is it's survived intact
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upright for well over a hundred years
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since it was sunk on the 15th of May
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1917 and when you consider the weather
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that we get in in this part of the
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country and the tides and the corrosion
9:30
and all that kind of stuff the fact it
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is so upright is absolutely incredible
9:33
having said that though it is only the
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bow that is upright and you can see me
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there i'm looking up at the bow from the
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um inside the ship so most of the ship
9:43
has collapsed apart from the bow that is
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that is still upright there and you can
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see the deck is kind of sloping down you
9:50
can see it's bent you can see that the
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force that's that's exerted on all those
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uh beams and everything so it's not
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going to be like this for too much
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longer we reminded all of us of the
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wreck of the justicia which is in Malin
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Head and it has a very similar sort of
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thing so a massive bow that sits upright
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um you can see also that the the bow is
10:12
covered in fishing line you can also see
10:14
there Rick um who's with me he's also on
10:17
his scooter he's uh he's seen the the
10:20
opportunities that this wreck presents
10:22
for photography and I've seen that the
10:24
opportunity that this particular part of
10:26
the wreck presents for being
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photographed so what I've done is I've
10:29
gone into uh model mode and I'm sat
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there i'm shining my torches on the on
10:34
the wreck i'm trying to give Rick as
10:36
much light as possible so that he can
10:38
get some decent photos of me and you
10:40
will have seen the results of that right
10:42
at the beginning of this video when I uh
10:44
when I show them and it's it's one of
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the things I can't highlight enough if
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you're diving with a you know somebody
10:51
who is as good as as Rick and has got
10:53
the eye for the photo then just take the
10:56
time you know pose for him and he will
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capture you and you'll have those photos
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forever and it's absolutely brilliant so
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that's uh you can see I'm I'm looking
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down onto the seabed there you can see
11:07
how good the visibility is i'm looking
11:08
back down the wreck there so that's the
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port side i've just had a quick look at
11:12
my computer there just making sure where
11:14
I am now obviously the other thing I'm
11:16
really keen to do is clearly I want some
11:18
great photos of me but also what I want
11:20
to do is try and find the bell because
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surely the bell must be in the bow it
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must be somewhere around here so um
11:28
you've already seen me have a bit of a
11:30
look for it as as I went up to the the
11:32
bow but I'm coming back in for another
11:34
look all I've seen so far is a bit of a
11:36
a lamp there was a broken kind of copper
11:40
um kerosene lamp or whatever on the sea
11:42
on the seabed now clearly I'm that's of
11:45
no interest to me at all that's not
11:46
going to help identify it and it's it's
11:48
smashed to bits as well so um it's the
11:51
bell that that I really really want it's
11:53
got to be down here somewhere actually
11:55
we've done two dives on this wreck we
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came back about a year later cuz it was
11:59
so good and we still felt the bell must
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be down here somewhere so we came back
12:03
for another look at it and and
12:04
conditions weren't quite as good as this
12:06
but we uh we didn't didn't find a bell
12:08
on that dive either so um you know
12:11
pretty disappointing um what I did do
12:14
though is I found a very small hand bell
12:17
um the kind of thing that maybe they
12:18
would have used for ringing out watches
12:20
or maybe as an alarm bell or something
12:23
like that now I've promised you several
12:26
times that I'm going to tell you the
12:27
story of the ship and it is it's an
12:30
incredible one and I guess just typical
12:33
of what happened in those days so the
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Pimnia was not built as a Pimnia it was
12:39
not built for the Kunard lines it was
12:41
actually built by the Germans in Hamburg
12:44
as the Henrietta Warman or Vman perhaps
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it was um built for a German German
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shipping line and it was used to move
12:54
stuff to and from uh the African
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colonies or the German African colonies
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and at the beginning of the first world
13:01
war that's where it was and we captured
13:04
it in Came what is now Cameroon and
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handed it over to the Kunard line who
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managed it through the first world war
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and once you know that all of a sudden
13:14
all the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle come
13:16
together and it's really obvious that
13:20
you know probably no other ship could
13:22
fit the bill for this one it's the right
13:24
length it's the right size it's got
13:26
crockery from Germany it's got Kunard
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line crockery this is very close to the
13:30
reported sinking position of the Pima as
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well so bingo that is it another mystery
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has been solved and over here you can
13:39
see this is me back where that um
13:42
crockery was found earlier on and you
13:44
can see there there is a diver with a
13:46
couple of plates uh in his hand and he's
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bringing them over to me to show them um
13:52
to say look that one's got Kunard line
13:54
on it which you can see we've already
13:56
seen that and the other one has got the
13:59
uh outvas crest on it um and the outvas
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writing and that's the German stuff so
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so that is how we solved the mystery of
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the preliminaria and it's a brilliant
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brilliant outcome and it just uh shows
14:14
the importance of not neglecting
14:16
evidence in my opinion and I took a
14:19
really good lesson away from this and as
14:20
I say that's what helped me identify the
14:23
na um you know probably 18 months after
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this so uh yeah it's a it's a it's a
14:28
great story and a really really good
14:32
result and shows you know shows what a
14:35
what a good bit of detective work and
14:37
and also sometimes knowing the right
14:39
people as well so you know that's if
14:42
you're ever looking at a shipwreck and
14:44
you ever trying to identify every piece
14:47
of evidence is valuable that's all I
14:50
would say on this one so I guess it's
14:52
also now that we know the name we can
14:54
say the story of the Pimnia as well so
14:56
So what happened to the Pimnia well it
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was we captured it in 1914 we used it
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and then in May 1917 it was coming back
15:06
actually from Africa with a cargo of
15:08
iron ore and fruit and at 6:30 in the
15:13
morning presumably it was relatively
15:15
quiet all of a sudden there was a
15:17
massive explosion on the starboard side
15:19
of as I've already said behind the
15:21
engine in the number three hold and very
15:24
quickly the the ship started to sink
15:27
they had as often they did they had the
15:29
lifeboats out so most of the crew got on
15:31
board the lifeboats and unfortunately
15:34
very very sadly eight men lost their
15:37
lives uh when this went down there's 27
15:39
guys on board 25 Brits an American and a
15:42
Norwegian and eight of them died and are
15:45
commemorated on the Merchant Marine
15:48
Memorial in Tower Hill which if you've
15:50
never been there is is a fantastic place
15:53
um and and shows you know how many guys
15:57
and how many ships were sunk in both
15:59
world wars it's somewhere that I always
16:01
try and go to when I'm in London and you
16:04
can see the on the the brass plaques you
16:06
can see the the names of the guys who
16:08
lost their lives on the Pyimnia so uh
16:11
the rest of the crew were in the
16:12
lifeboats and actually had no idea what
16:15
what happened they hadn't seen the
16:16
submarine that had sunk them and then
16:18
the submarine came to the surface as I
16:21
think they often did and because the
16:23
skipper wants to know what ship he's
16:25
just sunk and any information he can get
16:28
and this was uh the
16:30
UC75 commanded by a famous skipper
16:32
called Johans Lo um who went on to sink
16:37
77 ships with over 165,000 tons he won
16:41
Paulite which is the most um prestigious
16:45
German medal of the first world war so
16:47
he was a he was a really serious guy he
16:50
he died in 1918 not on board the UC75 he
16:53
died on another submarine the UB57 the
16:57
UC75 didn't make it either and I assume
17:00
therefore a lot of the guys who sunk the
17:01
Pimnia must have been on the UC75 when
17:04
it was sunk um towards the end of 1918
17:07
but it was a very successful submarine
17:09
and so did a lot of damage and I can't
17:12
imagine there was much sadness in this
17:14
country when it went down so the wreck
17:16
of the UC75 lies off the east coast of
17:19
England up near Scarra and uh has been
17:23
has been identified so anybody who's
17:25
interested in diving it I think it's in
17:27
a kind of recreational depths as well
17:29
not 100% certain what I'm doing here but
17:32
I'm in and around the engine room so
17:34
perhaps I felt that might have been an
17:35
engine room telegraph or something like
17:37
that just I guess trying to find
17:40
something that might help us identify
17:43
identify the wreck this is on the on the
17:44
port side and it's quite um broken down
17:47
here as you can see there's the hull has
17:49
kind of fallen outwards onto the seabed
17:51
and as I come in here I think in a
17:53
moment we're just going to get a a
17:55
glimpse of the the legs for the engine
17:57
room rick is on the other side and
17:59
actually took one of the photos that
18:01
you've seen earlier on the really nice
18:02
photos is of of me in this part of the
18:05
wreck so as you can see here I'm taking
18:08
my time having a good look around there
18:10
was something else on the left hand side
18:12
there no idea what it was it looked big
18:15
um but also didn't look as though it
18:17
would offer any clues clearly in the in
18:20
fact there you go that's the engine you
18:22
can see it standing up on its leg bog
18:24
standard three-cylinder you know
18:26
compound engine clearly somebody else
18:28
has been in around here so there's been
18:29
a bit of rumaging so there's a bit of
18:31
bit of poor viz and you never know what
18:33
you're going to find in these kind of
18:35
places people who've seen my other
18:36
videos will know that I've had a or I
18:38
had a particularly good year in 2024 for
18:42
makers plates this uh dive was from 2023
18:45
no makers plates on this dive no makers
18:48
plates in this year very unfortunately
18:50
but hey there we go there's always
18:52
always another year so I've had a good
18:54
look around i'm now heading sternwoods
18:56
on the on the port side and you can see
18:57
there that the hull is has kind of
18:59
folded in
19:01
so and I'm just coming up on top of the
19:03
wreck there just to uh to have a good
19:06
look around you can see how much netting
19:07
and rope and stuff there is on this
19:09
wreck
19:10
it's not very far away from Newand new
19:13
is a is a big fishing port one of the
19:15
busiest in the country so I guess it's
19:17
not really surprising that there is so
19:20
much netting and stuff on it and this is
19:22
me coming up here you can see this is
19:23
the uh top of the engine here so I'm
19:25
just coming up to have a look at the
19:26
engine you never know might be something
19:28
interesting on that as well but it's uh
19:31
it's a three-cylinder compound engine
19:33
and there are any number of ships of
19:36
this period which have similar engines
19:38
and are missing and all those kind of
19:40
things so we're not learning an awful
19:41
lot from the engine although it's always
19:44
interesting to see the other thing about
19:45
the ship that I've already mentioned is
19:47
that it isn't a particularly expensive
19:49
ship steamer may be a little harsh
19:52
on it but certainly once you get iron
19:54
back port holes it's uh a good sign that
19:57
the ship nobody spent loads of money on
19:59
it in fact you can just see the two
20:00
boilers going underneath me there so
20:02
those are or one of the two boilers
20:04
rather that's uh that's just forward of
20:05
the engine but they are kind of buried
20:07
with with bits of hull here and this is
20:09
me back over on the the starboard side
20:11
of the wreck now and heading back
20:13
towards the shot line my my dive is kind
20:16
of coming to an end and I'm just
20:19
spending a few moments having a quick
20:21
look around so no idea what that what
20:25
that thing is there looks a bit odd um
20:28
don't know it's not particularly uh
20:30
interesting i think I'm just going to
20:32
give it a bit of a a tug realize it's
20:33
really heavy and uh you know probably
20:36
made of concrete or something like that
20:38
so I kind of make the decision that it's
20:40
going to uh not going to shift any
20:42
further not going to help with
20:43
identification so the one thing that I'm
20:45
really uh kicking myself about this dive
20:48
is that I never really had a look at the
20:50
stern properly i don't know why I didn't
20:52
because it is something that I try and
20:54
do on most of my dives and in fact I've
20:57
had a look at the stern properly one of
20:59
the things I'd have spotted is the gun
21:01
there and it was supposedly right next
21:03
to the shot line only a small gun a a
21:06
three pounder but the Pimnia was
21:10
defensively armed as were I guess most
21:12
ships by the time they got to this uh
21:14
part of the First World War just as an
21:16
attempt to deter submarines so it was
21:19
defensively armed the gun was there i
21:22
didn't see it which is a pity because
21:23
that would have um it is one of the
21:25
things that they helped us to identify
21:27
only one diver saw the gun and they were
21:30
um they weren't 100% certain that they'd
21:32
seen it or not or they said they'd seen
21:34
it and we were like no we didn't see the
21:36
gun you know and normally were pretty
21:37
good at spotting that thing so that then
21:39
put a bit of doubt into their mind and
21:42
um yeah so so when we came up we had a
21:44
big discussion about whether there was
21:45
actually a gun or not we didn't have any
21:47
footage of it rick hadn't taken any
21:49
photos of it i hadn't got it on video so
21:51
we couldn't say for certain whether
21:53
there was a a gun or not so that's um
21:56
something we rectified on the second
21:58
dive came down and yeah definitely there
22:00
is a gun on it it's definitely a three
22:02
pounder and uh so you know once again
22:05
another piece of evidence that fits the
22:07
Pimnia jigsaw so this is back this is
22:10
actually the stern here um but I don't
22:12
spend the time I should because the gun
22:15
is actually just to the right hand side
22:17
as I looked at it there and uh if I'd
22:20
have if I if I'd have spent a bit more
22:22
time looking around I would have seen it
22:24
but um hey that's the way it goes you
22:26
know sometimes you you get things and
22:28
sometimes you don't get things but now
22:31
this looks suspiciously like a prop
22:32
shaft in front of me i'm not 100%
22:34
certain whether it is or not and as you
22:37
can see I don't really spend the time to
22:38
to have a good look at it you'd imagine
22:40
if it was a prop shaft there'd be a prop
22:42
on the end of it it doesn't seem to be
22:44
so maybe it got trolled off maybe it
22:46
isn't the prop shaft not 100% certain
22:48
what you can say though is that there is
22:50
a what looks suspiciously like a big
22:51
anchor just down there so that I guess
22:54
ties in nicely with what you'd expect at
22:56
the stern once again I'm not really
22:58
taking the time to have a good look at
22:59
it because this is this is the end of my
23:01
dive and
23:04
um I need to get up to the surface so
23:07
this is me coming back to the shop which
23:09
as you recall was in the number four
23:11
hold right at the stern of the ship so
23:14
the good thing is I've been all along
23:16
the ship i now have a really good feel
23:18
for it i know what I would do if I was
23:21
going to come back and indeed I do come
23:22
back and and I know where where I'm
23:24
going to prioritize and there in fact
23:25
that's that's Rick so um you know we've
23:28
stuck together we're both um you know
23:31
thinking along the same lines and we're
23:33
both uh we've both done our dives and
23:35
we're both going to going to head up so
23:37
it's actually been a brilliant dive we
23:40
don't know how brilliant it is yet
23:42
because we haven't we've got to wait six
23:44
months until we identify it but it's
23:47
just we came out this dive absolutely
23:50
buzzing because the the conditions were
23:52
so good the fact there was so much down
23:55
here to see and and you've kind of seen
23:56
that already and I mean you can see just
23:58
looking down here you can see the decks
24:00
are intact which is which once again is
24:02
really unusual oh there's that that
24:03
nasty net that I uh we saw on the way
24:06
down i've been carrying that um uh bag
24:09
with me the whole way down the whole way
24:10
along i don't know why must have must
24:12
have fallen off at some point or
24:14
something like that or um anyway I've
24:16
got it with me i think I'm probably
24:17
going to clip it away at some point so
24:20
there's me recovering my strobe clipping
24:22
it back on and me heading back up the
24:25
shot line you can see above me there you
24:27
just see how lovely and blue and light
24:28
it is so that's always really nice when
24:30
you're going up it does however as you
24:32
can see there muck around with the white
24:33
balance on the power lens um which is
24:36
which irritated me at the beginning of
24:38
the dive and is still irritating me now
24:40
but um heyi ho there you go nothing I
24:42
can do about it now just one of those
24:44
lessons for the
24:46
future make sure you've got the parallel
24:48
lens white balance settings done
24:51
correctly otherwise you end up with uh
24:53
orange uh you know stuff everywhere
24:55
which is just looks rubbish so you've
24:59
seen me there i am changing my set point
25:02
that's me doing my set point on my uh
25:04
CCR controller i'm putting up to 1.5
25:07
it's a bit ahead of where I sometimes do
25:08
it so I must be needing to get out the
25:13
water a little bit quicker than perhaps
25:15
um I sometimes do and there you go
25:17
there's there's my other one uh and you
25:19
can see me changing the set point on
25:21
that one you can see I've got about 114
25:23
minutes TTS so just under two hours
25:29
dec so this doesn't often get captured
25:33
by my uh paral lens but you can see
25:36
there really clearly me changing the uh
25:38
the high set point on the uh sheer water
25:41
to reflect what I've just done on my uh
25:44
on my inspiration controller so it's
25:46
reflecting what I'm absolute actually
25:48
breathing i'm doing this as I'm
25:49
ascending as you as you can see there
25:51
rick is somewhere around me but but I'm
25:53
not particularly looking at him and the
25:56
next item on the agenda is going to be
25:58
the lazy shot which is coming along very
26:02
soon I'm sure and as soon as I'm past
26:04
that I'm going to show you my
26:06
decompression profile and I'm going to
26:08
talk a little bit about the gases and
26:10
stuff that I use you can see Rick he's
26:11
he's just below me there um basking in a
26:14
glow of an orange laser beam and in fact
26:17
right on Q there is the lazy shot two
26:19
tags on it one of them's mine one of
26:21
them is Rick's and that's a weight for
26:24
keeping the lazy shot down i'm going to
26:26
turn my torch off eventually get rid of
26:27
the orange light so the only one you can
26:29
see now are the ones that are attached
26:31
to my scooter um and I'll I'm going to
26:35
I've had enough of them so I'm going to
26:37
uh switch now to my deco profile so
26:40
people always like me to talk about
26:41
gases and depths and dive plans and all
26:44
those kind of things so this is the dive
26:46
profile for the dive that I've just done
26:49
you can see the big spike there that I'm
26:50
just on that's the top of the bow and I
26:53
think shows how much the wreck stands
26:55
above the seabed that one there I think
26:57
is on top of the engine and then
26:59
obviously you can see me kind of coming
27:00
back up you can see all the normal deco
27:02
uh stops that's probably the lazy shot
27:04
there and then you can see the rest of
27:06
the uh the dive profile i did this dive
27:09
on 1265 helium as as a dilluent which is
27:14
I think a pretty good gas for this kind
27:16
of depth that gives you equivalent
27:17
narcotic depth of about 24 m which means
27:20
you got a relatively clear head and the
27:22
gas density at 82 m which I don't think
27:25
I quite got to is
27:27
5.545 rather grams per liter which is
27:31
within um you know the the kind of
27:34
recommended limits of uh 5.2 is best and
27:38
6.3 or whatever it is is the one that
27:41
they recommend you don't exceed so you
27:43
know overall pretty good gases and you
27:45
can see their total run time of uh just
27:48
over 2 and 1/2 hours so and and I think
27:51
it even did a couple of extra minutes at
27:52
the end there for um for the wife and
27:54
kids so overall I think it was 1265 is
27:59
quite a nice gas and it works well for
28:01
this kind of depth of diving and you can
28:03
see there it's uh you know quite a
28:05
reasonable profile as with always with
28:08
any sea diving profile there's always
28:09
going to be a few ups and downs and bits
28:11
and pieces but overall nice dive profile
28:14
nice dive and always very pleased to
28:17
find our chariot when we arrive on the
28:19
surface this was diving off Seeker
28:21
within deep today's skipper was Hugo who
28:24
you can see on there he came down with
28:26
us to New and we're also really
28:28
fortunate to have Honey as our crew on
28:30
board the boat so I hope you've enjoyed
28:33
my dive i hope you've enjoyed the
28:36
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28:38
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