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This video documents the underwater discovery of what appears to be a handmade brass plate from a ship. The plate bears the inscription Foyle, sparking curiosity about its purpose and origin. Join the creator on this #diving adventure to examine this piece of #treasure.
HMS Foyle was a Royal Navy WW1 Torpedo Boat Destroyer sunk off Plymouth under tow to Devonport. It sunk on 15 Mar 1917 after hitting a mine laid by UC-68
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A huge thanks to Chris and Simon for organising this dive and Craig my buddy for use of his footage
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*Highlights*
00:00 Introduction
04:40 Fining the plate
09:34 Crayfish (Crawfish)
12:20 Gun
14:34 Yarrow Boiler
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Sometimes you find the most interesting things when you least expect them. And that's exactly what happened to me when
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I found this. I'm not even sure what it is. It's a plate, obviously, a brass
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plate of some sort. It's got the name of the ship on HMS foil, but it's not uh the maker's plate. It's not anything
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that anybody I've consulted has seen before. I actually think what it was was
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uh something that was handmade, possibly by one of the engineering team on board the ship. Now, it's got holes, so it's
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clearly been mounted, but if you have a look at it, you can see that it's never been finished. Bottom line, it's a bit
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of a conundrum. If you know what it is, then I'd love to hear about it in the comments. For everyone else, I guess
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you'd like to know how I found it, where I found it, and what is the foil, or to
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give it its proper title, His Majesty's ship foil. HMS Foil was a riverclass
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torpedo boat destroyer built at the beginning of the 20th century that then hit a mine in March 1917, just off the
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Ed Lighthouse. The mine blew off the bow, killing 27 sailors who were
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actually asleep there. The boat didn't sink immediately or the ship didn't sink immediately and was being towed back to
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Plymouth. Actually being towed backwards when um it then founded and sank in the
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location it is now which is about 5 mi 5 mi outside Plymouth and it sits on the
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seabed in 50 m of water. It's a one of the kind of classic Plymouth um
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beginning um technical dives. I've dived it quite a few times. It's been dived
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loads and loads since it was discovered, probably in the late '60s or early '7s. It's also been um commercially salvaged.
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Large chunks have been brought up and and scrapped. You can see an example here. This picture, I think, was
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probably taken in the ' 70s. That's the bridge and one of the guns um in a scrapard in Plymouth. There was a whole
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load of other stuff as well, including all the torpedo tubes and loads and loads of small brass stuff uh was just
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brought up and then sold for scrap. So, bit sad really that those artifacts aren't around anymore, but hey, that's
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the way the world was. For anyone interested in diving the foil, I can't recommend the ship's project website
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enough. The link is in the description and also up on the top of this and that's where I got loads of the historic
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information about this, loads of the photos, including this one here, which shows the uh the plan of the site. It's
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a brilliant website. Um, go and have a look at it. You you really you'll find it really useful. You can also see I'm
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doing something a bit different here. I've got a selfie stick. I've got a GoPro mounted on it and I'm taking a bit
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of uh bit of footage of myself. So, I thought that might be a bit interesting. I've also got some footage that was
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taken by my buddy on this dive, Craig Holdtock, and he's very kindly allowed me to use that as well. So, uh and I've
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also got another camera with me as well. So, you're going to see all sorts of uh different bits and pieces going on down
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there. Footage from different angles and stuff. Add something slightly different. So anyway, let us know what you think.
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Tell us in the comments if you like it, if you don't like it, whatever else it is. Always uh always keen to to kind of
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hear what you think. So this is a bit further on in the dive. I haven't got
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the full dive sequence I often do, so this one does chop and change a bit. This is arriving at the bottom of the
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the shot line. This video is taken using my uh Insta 360 Ace Pro 2. And you can
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see there, I mean, that's pretty impressive considering it's 50 meters down in the English Channel. And there
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is not very much in the way of light. It's going to get a lot better in a moment when I turn the video lights on.
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And uh there you go. That's the first first of my two video lights on. Second one will be on in a second. And that is
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clearly uh there it is. Second light is on. And you can see there that has uh made a huge huge difference to the uh
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the quality of the video. So, these are a pair of uh Leon Power L12 lights that
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they sent me to uh to kind of have a go with. And I have to say they're uh
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they're they're very nice. So, great combination here of video lights. You
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can see this is the bottom of the shot line. It's one of the club dives. So, we're uh we're diving off a rib. Use a
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small grapple. The other thing you can probably see there is there's a shoe just to the right of the at the grapple.
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There was a shoe there. So, kind of always makes me think about the people who were on these wrecks. But there you
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go. I'm kind of uh moving off. You see there's all sorts of bits and pieces. There's kind of a coil over there. There's some an enemies there. And then
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you can see here within I don't know what that is, a meter and a half, maybe 2 m of the shot line, I see this thing
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here. And the instant I see it and I see that curve on the top and I can see it's clearly brass. I knew that I've found
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something really, really interesting. And it's a massive surprise because of course, you know, this is a wreck that
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has been salvaged and dived probably hundreds, thousands of times. There's a
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guy um very sadly no longer with us called Roger Dads who has, you know, his
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claim to flame, well, one of his many claims to fame actually, was that he dived the foil over a hundred times and
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clearly this plate has has has not been spotted. So Craig, my buddy, has come
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over. He's seen it. He's had a look at it as well. And uh you can see there's a little nut in the in the corner there.
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You can see the holes. So this is clearly mounted on something. What I actually think I found is is the maker's
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plate. Um as you've already heard, it isn't the maker's plate, but it is still
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something really, really special. And I I think, you know, nearly unique as well. I've I've asked several historians
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if they know what this is, and and none of them been able to say. So, what I'm going to do now is I'm going to, you can
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see I've got my bag out there and I'm going to put it in my bag and then I'm going to take it back and secure it to
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the the shot line. That does, of course, mean that I've stopped videoing, which is why uh this is a a handheld setup, so
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it's why you're not seeing very much at the moment. So, what I'll show you is Craig's view of the uh the same
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incident. You can see there my uh two video lights. You can see there you go. That's me pulling it out and uh and
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showing it to Craig and going, you know, wow, that's really um really
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significant. I'm videoing it there. Craig's videoing it. This next bit here doesn't make much sense. It kind of the
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bag seems to be the wrong way up until you realize the camera is actually inverted. So, that's me. I've taken it back over to the shot line. I've put it
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on the shot line. I've left it there and I'm going to come back and uh pick it up when I uh when my dive is done. And I'm
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going to obviously carry it up to the surface. Meanwhile, um, you know, that's great start to any dive. Uh, you know,
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you literally within I don't know what that was, 20 seconds of hitting the bottom, I found that. Uh, obviously by
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doing that, I've stirred up the, uh, the viz a bit. You can see that. And, uh, but I'm carrying on with the dive. Loads
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of interesting things here. You've probably seen there's kind of loads of crustations, loads of kind of interesting uh sea life, including pink
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sea fans and uh there was lobster back there and various other bits and pieces.
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Also a load of rope down here that's probably from fishing lines or pots scolop down there. Um but there's all
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sorts of other bits and pieces that looks quite interesting. That thing there, I try and dig it out and it turns
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out to be nothing. So, I'm going to save you the pain of of quite a lot of bit of video of the seabed.
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So, moved on here and you can see uh see the viz is is is not so great there. Um
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what you've got to look forward to during this video, there's going to be loads and loads of uh fish life, but there's also loads of bits of the wreck.
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So, boilers, engines, there's a gun, there's an octopus, there's lobsters, there's pink sea fans, there's a rudder.
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Um so, loads and loads of stuff to go on. But one of the things I just want to talk about first is is taking stuff off
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Rex. It comes up quite a lot. Clearly, you know, the foil people died on it. Although not this bit of it. The people
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who died were on the bow, which is still missing. And is it okay to take stuff off Rex? Legally, absolutely nothing to
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stop me doing what what I've done. And I've reported the plate to the receiver of wreck as I'm I I'm, you know, have to
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do under the law. And I'll put it out there. If the Royal Navy decide they want the plate from the uh from the
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foil, they are more than welcome uh to have it. And um I would I would look forward to seeing that in the museum.
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And obviously those of you who've watched my Trentonian bell video will know that is exactly what I did. So I'll
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kind of wait to hear out on that one. Um morally, well, my view is that these
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ships are decaying and falling into the seabed and they will be gone within a period of time. and and when they go all
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these artifacts will go as well and you know they will vanish forever and my view is that it's much better to have
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them on the surface where people can see them you know something can be done with them like in a museum or whatever or you
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know even just reported so that people are aware of their existence and that's why I think it's a it's it's it's the
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right thing to do but I know it's an emotive subject and uh lots of people feel differently so as always I welcome
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your thoughts back to the dive. And you can see that we've just come across uh I've come across some of the boiler
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tubes. And living on here are a whole family of crayfish, which is which is
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really nice to see. Crayfish um really interesting. they pretty much vanished
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from Plymouth um and and the Southwest from the you know in the 70s when they were horribly overfished and but in the
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last I don't know five 10 years perhaps they've kind of reappeared and as you
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can see in incredible numbers um they've come uh they must have always
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been offshore on the deep wrecks where where people couldn't fish them but they've they've they've come inshore as well and you can see here this a lovely
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lovely colony of them not particularly big ones these ones But there are um you know you do see much much bigger ones on
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on some of the kind of further out further out wrecks. And clearly I'm spending some time uh some time videoing
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these. You probably saw earlier on I didn't have my video lights well positioned so I got those Mickey Mouse
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that Mickey Mouse ears effect, but I've kind of sorted them out now. And and moving over to uh to this thing here
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which is part of the boiler. The foil had a number of yarrow boilers which are
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kind of the V-shaped ones. They're really good in terms of um economies of
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uh they gave you a lot of power in not very much space. So they were really popular for kind of these types of um
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vessels, the kind of very small, relatively fast uh boats, you know,
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destroyers, torpedo boats, all those kind of things. And and that's where, you know, I'm just kind of swimming around. There's not much left of the
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foil. most of it has uh you has has been gone. They were they were very lightly
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built. So the only really significant bits that are left are the boilers, are the engines and uh the stern which
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you're going to see in a little bit. So because this wreck is only 50 m only 50
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m is kind of relatively shallow by our standards. Um the you know I kind of
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feel that I've got quite a lot of time on it. So, I'm taking my time just going around really slowly and uh you know,
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seeing seeing what's here. I also, you know, having had that great find with that plate at the beginning, I'm kind of
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maybe today is has got my luck in. But there's a there's a lobster. It's his lucky day because I don't fancy lobster
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for dinner. So, I'm just leaving him to kind of go about his business unmolested. But you can see it's
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actually really nice, really nice conditions down here. And it is uh the foil is is, you know, kind of really
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nice dive. One of the interesting things about the foil is that the submarine that sunk it, UC68, was a a type 2 World
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War II German mine laying submarine and the wreck of it has never been found.
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So, it went missing uh later on in the year and the Oh, I'm just going to come
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back to that in a moment because you see this thing here in front of me there, there's kind of a whole load of odd
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stuff. There's some gloves. There's a kind of crayfish or lobster shell and there's a load of other stuff. There's actually an octopus in there which I
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don't spot. And the reason I don't spot it is cuz uh the octopus is under the gun. And you can see there the gun is
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running kind of left left to kind of upper right. Um and that's what I'm kind
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of I'm looking at. That's what I'm videoing completely neglecting the octopus that is down there despite the fact you can see it's well you can see
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it moved the glove there. And you can also see that it's it's octopus do that thing where they build a little house
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and they they kind of almost like have a little garden outside it. So that's what I was um that's what I missed. Instead
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I'm just I don't know really what I'm videoing at the moment. But there's all sorts of uh you know bits and pieces of
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kind of engine type stuff around here. So yeah, going back to uh the UC68 then.
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So, the UC68 is is was missing later on in the year after one of its mines sunk
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the foil. Well, many of you may have seen the videos that I've produced about going and diving a submarine in 85 m. We
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we dived it twice with the gas barados. We scrubbed the prop twice. The prop
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didn't have anything on it, but the to our best knowledge, that submarine is
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the UC68. So, it's it's there's not that many UC's missing. And it's um obviously
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it's the right shape and design and everything. And the UC68 we think had the props replaced. So therefore there's
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that's why there's nothing on the props. So fairly nice. You know I I like those
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kind of things where you can see you know you have those links between Rex. And obviously what's going on here is
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got a large edible male crab on the top there and uh female crab underneath him that he's obviously taken care of. And
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there's a uh a diver that is my buddy uh Craig. You can see he dives a very
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similar configuration uh to to a lot of us with a Gbox and all that kind of
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stuff. He's a little unusual as well in that he does a load of cave diving which
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uh not many of the other guys that I dive with um do certainly not to the kind of uh with the enthusiasm and to
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the extent that Craig does. He's part of the cave diving group. He also does loads of caving and stuff in his uh you
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know dry caving and stuff in his spare time. So he kind of he likes to mix it mix it up a bit and you know get the
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best of both disciplines. But great to have him on this dive especially you know he got that video footage you saw
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of me earlier on. And what I'm doing here is you can see this is me just kind of going along the lines of the boiler.
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So the big tube on the left would have been on top of all these uh the smaller tubes that were in the middle of the
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shot earlier on. And that's the the the Yarrow boilers and it had four four on
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board the the foil. So you can imagine what it must have been like trying to keep those um full of coal. And the
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thing with these torpedo boats is they were they were notorious of being small and tight and had a huge number of
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people on them as well. So they were um supposedly they were really um
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uncomfortable ships to kind of live and uh fight and operate in. But hey, you
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know, that was, I guess, the way they did things back then. So, you know, more more kind of boiler shots. You can see
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there's loads of fish around as well. So, I'm surprised there isn't more fishing gear on the foil actually cuz it
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is um so close to Plymouth and you'd have thought it would be it would be well fished, but yeah, good news. Good
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news that it isn't. And you can see here I'm slowly moving down the wreck. And I think one of the things that always
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surprises a lot of people, perhaps not not UK divers, but certainly overseas divers, is how degraded many of the
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wrecks are um in in the English Channel. And you know, I often get in the comments questions like, you know, were
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were they depth charged or, you know, how come it's been pulled apart? Well,
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the reality is is I mean, this was a very small, slightly built ship. It's
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over a 100red years old and the storms and the conditions
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mean that these things get absolutely battered. So what you see in terms of
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the condition then is nothing more than just natural uh decay. And what you can
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also see is that it's not going to be too long before this thing is completely gone and has completely vanished into
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the seabed. And that's going to be that's going to be really sad. And it's one of the reasons I am always quite
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keen to to recover stuff to the surface because I think you know if you leave it
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down here at some point it will go and you will never be found again. You know there is people bottom troll in this
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area. Obviously you see there's quite a high level of mud and and therefore the things will just go. They will be buried
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under the seabed. it will be t taken off by a troller or they'll be moved off by kind of wave action or you know any of
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those kind of things. So for and of course even brass does eventually decay
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in the seabed. So that's why I'm uh I'm a fan of of bringing stuff up and then
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you know going through the right process. Now what I'm doing here actually is uh I'm just trying the you
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see I tried the different modes on the lights out there. I turned them off for
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a bit, then I went went red. Lobster there. You can just see hiding under the plates. His lucky day as well.
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And you can see, you know, how lovely the quality of the this video is. I'm I'm really really impressed by it,
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frankly. Uh those lights are great. And the um the the video camera is great as
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well. As always with my videos, I've put a link in the description which shows all the kit I'm using. So, if you want
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to kind of uh have a look at it for yourself, uh you you can do that. So, that's that's what you'll see.
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Obviously, you can see there's been some other divers around or somebody's been moving stuff cuz the the viz has been
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kicked up a bit. Craig's over there. I'm not saying it was him, but he is in the vicinity.
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And there you go. He's just kind of illuminating. That's, you know, another bit of the boiler system there. You can see all the tubes and everything. So,
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we've we've kind of covered this bit a bit. And I think I've probably ended up
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going around in circles. I didn't mean to. I've uh been trying to get to the engines and the stern for a bit on this
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dive and I've not managed to do it. And one of the problems I think with this wreck being so degraded is it is
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surprisingly difficult to to to navigate around even though it is tiny. So I
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think at this point in the dive I I kind of I get a grip of myself and say, "Right, come on. We're going to go and find those engines. the clearly the
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boilers have got to point to the engine. So there's four four boilers. So at one
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end of of the row of boilers, there has to be an engine. It doesn't appear to be at the end I'm at at the moment. So I'm
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going to um going to going to try going the other way. And that's that's kind of
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what I'm going to do now. On route, I go past the gun again. You recall that from earlier on. You remember me saying that
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I hadn't spotted the octopus, even though I should have done. But this time, I have to say I have suddenly spotted the octopus. And there you can
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see it's uh come out of its house and it is um looking as octopuses tend to do
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looking at me with with kind of uh a bad glare. It's like you know what are you
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doing here? This is my house. Go away. Leave me alone. I've got this lovely garden set up. I don't want the divers
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sticking big lights and video cameras and everything in my face. And one of
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the things about Plymouth at the moment is we have had tons and tons of octopuses. I think it must be related to
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the fact that all the crayfish have come back because you know octopus I think eat crayfish. But there are loads and
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loads of them. So we're seeing them on lots of dives and it's it's a real problem for the fisherman because the lobsters get in their crab pots and
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stuff and they eat all the crab pots. It must be great for a lobster to have a kind of like a literally a captive
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captive dinner. you can go and um you can just go off and help yourself. Um
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and and fishermen do report that they they pull up lines of pots that are just full of shells of crabs and lobsters
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where they've been eaten by uh eaten by octopus, which must be, you know, when it's as your livelihood must be
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absolutely horrendous. So, um I think what they've done instead is they've kind of turned the tables and they've
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decided that they're going to go octopus fishing instead. So they're now pulling up tons and tons of octopus and the my
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understanding is the rates for octopus are pretty good. So they're selling loads of octopuses maybe not for eating in the UK but I
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think you know certainly Europe they they eat a lot and a load of them have gone over there. So it's kind of worked
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out okay for the fisherman maybe not so good for the octopuses. And this uh
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we've been here already again as well. So this is the the boiler full of uh the boiler tube sort of crayfish. There's
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the the top of the boiler, but I'm kind of feeling that somewhere around here has got to be uh has got to be the
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engine. And so I'm heading off in the line kind of fingers crossed that the
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engine is is going to be up here. It's going to be up here somewhere. And the foil had two engines obviously. Um had
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two screws, twin engineed, and that's why it was so powerful. I think the foil did something like 25 knots, but they
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were also um which which wasn't like at the top end of torpedo boats for this
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era, which I think could kind of the very fastest ones could do 27 or 30 knots, but the foil or the river class
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were meant to be particularly good seaeping boats. So even though they could only do 25 knots, they could do it
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in far more, you know, far heavier seas than some of the other boats. Ah, and
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here we go. There we go. That definitely uh looks like an engine there. You can
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see lying on its side. You can see all the pistons and the um you see the the
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shafts and all that kind of stuff. In fact, there we go. There's a pair of engines, one on the left and one on the
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the right. And there you go. That looks like another diver as well. So, that's one of the other guys um who were diving
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with us. He's obviously uh you know just come down is having a look around once
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again diving a similar configuration to to the rest of us with a kind of Gbox
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and everything. We're all I think probably a bit unimaginative. We all dive a uh a pretty similar
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configuration. In fact, now it's not entirely true. Um three of us were on AP inspirations with Gboxes. One of the
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other guys on the boat had a uh a shark which definitely don't see very very
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often. And there you go. You can see uh the kind of underneath of the engine there. You can see uh the pistons and
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the crank and and all that kind of stuff. Um I'm not the world's expert on
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uh marine steam engines, but I do recognize that's an engine. I do recognize a few of the bits. So, the
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other thing I wanted to do was go to the stern as well as kind of there's there's
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I've heard a rumor that there was a gun at the stern. So, I've always kind of tried to fancy finding it. So that's
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obviously the opportunity to to do that to do that. Now I mean I don't think there is but lots of people have told me
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differently. So now what there is though is you can just see just at the bottom there there's actually a massive
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spanner. I think I'm going to turn around and focus on it in a little bit. But in fact there you go. Look at that
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massive massive spanner. So I've no idea the size of the you know what that would have been used for but it's been on the
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seabed for 100 odd years and no doubt at some point was a really important piece
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of equipment for HMS foil obviously but nice to nice to see it and
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uh you think one of the problems with anything that's made of iron in particular is that you know lots of it
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is unrecognizable. Oh, I'll tell you what else I've just found there. Looks like a bit of a plate. There you go. bit of broken plate. You wonder whenever you
24:19
see something like that always makes me wonder about the human link. Who was the last sailor to to eat off that plate and
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you know what happened? And possibly you know why are they eating in the engine room cuz that's uh that would seem to be where this is. But uh I also think that
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perhaps the stern of the vessel was where some of the messes were and everything. In fact, I've seen plans of the a foil. I know there are messes at
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the stern. So, you know, that probably explains why it is. There's something else there. Looks like a bit of a box
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perhaps. You can see kind of coppery uh color. Uh more pink C fans. And that looks like
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the one of the the drive shafts. So that will be coming from the engine will be going to the stern uh to the prop. So
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obviously the prop isn't uh on the wreck because that would have been part of the you know one of the really attractive
25:08
things to salvage made of bronze. So, it would have been worth a lot of money when they uh no doubt when they uh they
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they weighed it in. That thing to the right looks like a um an arm of the prop, it wasn't. It was just a bit of uh
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bit of plate. So, anybody who gets excited and starts telling me the prop has been salv hasn't been salvaged,
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that's not the prop. One of the interesting tales of the kind of early days of this is how they identified it.
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So, they found one of the foot plates, the brass foot plates when they went down that had the name of the the ship
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on. You know, these are incredible things. They look absolutely stunning. They're worth quite a lot of money uh
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now. And the first person uh to find it brought it up and um it was it was
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weighed in for scrap. It's like it's horrendous. They missed this though. I
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don't know what this thing that I've just found there is, but it's uh once again it's clearly brass. I thought it was a port hole when I found it, but but
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when I turn it over, obviously destroying the viz, you can see it's not. It's some sort of uh cover to a
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pipe or or something like that. Fact, you might not be able to see it. I might not I might not actually video it cuz as
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soon as I turn it over, I realize it is it isn't a port hole. Um it's just a device for destroying
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visibility. So, moving moving back and and we're quite close to stern here. There, you know, more crabs. You see the
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stern's actually a bit more upright than the rest of it. And one of the things I saw on this dive that I'd never seen
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before, and you're going to see it in a second, is actually the uh there's a rudder, which is which was was really um
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you know, it's kind of quite nice to see. And possibly when I get to it in a
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second, you'll see why I I don't think I'd seen it before, but it's pretty obvious. Pretty obvious when you see it.
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There's Craig. He's off um you know just off the stern maybe kind of hopefully looking for looking for uh something
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over there. And that in front of me there that is actually the rudder. You can see that curve. Um it'll become more
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obvious in a second cuz I'm going to take some uh take take a closer up video. And you can see the steering quadrant up to the to the left hand side
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as well. You can see the that's how the rudder is mounted. There's the the steering quadrant off to the left hand
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side. Meanwhile, I'm I'm looking at a few other bits and pieces. I've come up a few meters off the seabed and there
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you go. There's the top of the uh the steering steering quadrant just kind of
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filling the Yeah, you go. That's That's really obvious now, isn't it? You can see that's uh that's a rudder. And I'm going to move around to the side. I'm
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going to video a bit more of it. There's Craig who's um kind of getting in the way cuz that's where I want that's where
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I want to go. But he's a fair play to him. He's he's he's a really good buddy. He uh we stuck really close to each
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other. So that's uh that's kind of always nice when you're when you're doing this kind of stuff. But there you go. You can see the rudder going down to
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the left uh and then into the seabed and and probably because so much of it is
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buried. That's the reason I' i'd not spotted it before. But you can see there's actually a lobster hiding underneath it. And there you go. That's
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that's the rudder. You see it's actually quite a uh quite a big thing. And I guess you probably needed that when you
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were doing uh 25 knots and you needed to change direction quickly to launch your
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torpedoes. uh or whatever it whatever it was um you needed a high level of
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control but that's that's it there that's the uh that's the ro you can see the kind of a lower mount and there may even be be another a third mount
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underneath underneath the seabed there the other thing you can see is uh you know off to the right that's the the
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mount on which the the drive shaft would have been and and the prop is would have been I guess somewhere around there as
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well but obviously long long gone I mean the other thing that would salvage as I think I mentioned already with the
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torpedo tubes that have been there's there there was one pair in between the the funnels, so they would have been
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above where the um uh the arrow boilers were and there was
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another pair at the back. So probably not too far away from where we are now. Clearly bronze torpedo tubes really
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really valuable. So they would have been pretty much the first things that that that got lifted by the by the salvas and
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and weighed in. And once again, you know, how how sad is that that they were just turned into scrap. You know, once
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again, this is probably the '7s. Um, and you kind of feel for them cuz the guys who were doing this, they they weren't
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doing it for pocket money. This was kind of their I guess their job really. This was how they um they uh stayed
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financially solvent. If you have a look off, you can probably just see the strobes off to my right as well. So, that's um that's where the the shot line
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is and that's where we're going to come back to in a moment um to kind of uh to finish up the dive. And that's clearly
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this is the area where I found uh or not too far away from from where I found that plate. So it was in the stern of
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the vessel, you know, probably after of the engines. There were messes and stuff in around here. So maybe it was it was
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something that was put on top of um you know, the door to a mess. Maybe it was part of, you know, when you got on the
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uh when you got on the ship for the first time. I don't know. You probably just saw off to the right hand side there that that my bag is still there on
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the on the shot line. and everybody who came down saw it and uh I kind of wondered wondered what what what was in
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there. Clearly, I gave them the good news when we when we got to the surface. There's that thing that I tried to uh to
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dig out earlier on. I thought maybe it was um it was uh a compass bowl or
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something like that, but it's not. It's just some sort of uh brass pipe. And you can see there I kind of I wiggle it
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again and uh it's uh it's definitely not moving. So, time to wrap up and uh head
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back to the shop. And you can see this is the bit where I uh where I actually found the plate. You can see those uh a
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few of the bits and pieces. You probably recognize and maybe even that lobster that's that's just hidden. So, it was
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obviously off to the right where I'm looking at now, but it's there in the bag on the um on the line next to my
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strobe and in fact the big uh spod weight that we've uh they've used to keep the the shot down. And there's
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Craig. And I think we're going to confirm to each other that we are we are done. There's my strobes. There's
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there's the bag. And that's probably that bouncing up and down is what has messed up a lot of the viz. So, probably
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should have got a bit higher. I don't have my normal sheer water overlay on for this dive just because there's a bit
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of um two and fro with with different, you know, there's some cuts and stuff in the video. But what I do have is my deco
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profile. I know people like to look at that. So, uh so here it is. You can see there, you know, not as much
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decompression as as I often do. So, ended up, I think, doing about 40 odd minutes. You can see there the profile,
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it's just under 50 m most of the dive. Uh, right at the end there, I get nearly
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50 and then sort of come up with say with about 45 minutes of deco. Um, not
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sure what's happening here. That's probably the lazy shot. Maybe I'm I'm just kind of sitting there waiting for
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um Greg or something like that. Can't remember for certain. And then obviously all the standard uh decco as as we come
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up and uh stay a few minutes at the end for the wife and kids. And there we go.
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Lovely lovely dive. What I do have though is some uh some video. This is
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from um Craig. And you can see there, that's me doing my deco on my DSMB. You see I've
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got two different cameras there. The GoPro on the selfie stick. I've got the Ace Pro 2 on a tray with those Leon
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video lights and I'm watching my uh Dive Voke there during my decompression and that's what Craig has come close to to
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see. There's a bit of selfie stick footage of me on uh on deco as well. And
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the last bit of video footage is actually from on the way out, but what it does is it shows at the club uh rib
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shows the team who went out to do it. You can see um the two guys who provided surface for cover for us there, Chris
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and Simon up the front. And um yeah, it's fantastic. Great to be part of a
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club where where people do this kind of stuff. So, hope you've enjoyed another one of my videos. As always, give us a
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