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The nature of deep wreck exploration means that not every shipwreck can be identified. This huge 110 metre long steamship lay inverted in 90 metres (270) feet of water off the North coast of Cornwall. Despite our best efforts, and some stunning underwater conditions, it will probably never be identified.
*Gasperados*
This dive was part of the #Gasperados hunt for the USCG Tampa. You can find other dives from this epic quest in my playlist - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSks_DrnduzXAacKcgzXSY-TmFQwlNik-&si=K35Udy9R4O11CrTI
*Thanks*
This video contains an overlay showing my dive computer's information throughout the dive. A massive thanks to @EricStott who has worked tirelessly to get this sorted - thank you!
*Highlights*
00:00 Introduction
06:20 Reaching the bottom at 90 metres
11:56 The bow
17:48 Back at the bridge.
26:18 Leaving the bottom
28:22 Decompression Profile
*Boat*
Our skipper on this dive was the awesome Chris Lowe of Atlantic Diver - https://www.atlanticdiver.co.uk/
*Kit I Use*
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0:00
unfortunately it's not always possible to identify shipwrecks and this dive is
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another one where we went a long way offshore with really high hopes and ended up with basically nothing on the
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plus side conditions were fabulous and Rick took some stunning photos that I'll be showing through this video you'll
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also see I've got this cool little overlay in the bottom leftand corner of my screen which shows the data from my
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dive computer i know loads of you are going to love that and I particularly want to thank Eric Sto who has done all
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the work to make that happen it's a brilliant piece of functionality thank you very much this was another wreck
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that we dived out of NewI in North Cornwall it was on one of the Tampa weekends although I think we were all a
0:44
bit cheesed off at that time so we decided to dive something that clearly couldn't be the Tampa at 100 odd meters
0:50
long this wreck was far far too big still really exciting though because
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this is an unknown wreck nobody's ever dived this before chances are nobody ever will dive it because the
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information that we've got about it we've posted online onto wreck site and so anybody would do their research would
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look at it realize it's upside down and therefore probably go to one of the many
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other wrecks in the local area that are much more exciting so could well be that
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we're the only people ever to dive this now you can see we're back on Atlantic Diver that's Chris Loe's boat out of
1:26
Newi um I've decided rather than going off the stern I'm going out the side which is if you're sitting on the
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forward facing seats is always a good idea you can see there I've got my scooter just coming up alongside the
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lazy shot and the shot chris puts those two in together rather than getting one of the divers to do it so it's it's a
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bit of a kind of just way that sometimes skippers do things a bit differently looking in there you can see uh that the
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viz looks really good you can see something yellow on the shot line already so uh so that's great and there
1:56
you go i'm in the water and the fact that you can see things that clearly underwater in fact you can see it's the
2:03
boy there that is just a really good sign for the dive you know if you know
2:08
you're going to get in and you know the viz is going to be good that just just kind of makes it so much better right at
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the beginning once you're in the water first thing you want to do of course is get yourself on the shot line and you
2:20
can see there I've managed to wrap the rope of my scooter around the trigger
2:25
which is uh which is not ideal but sorted it all out there and you can see I'm going to start my descent you might
2:32
have noticed that my the bag flapping around to my left hand side that is my Kindle this dive is from May 2024 and at
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this point I was still using my Kindle for uh keep myself amused on deco stops
2:46
one of the things with Chris is that he doesn't like the Kindles being put in with the lazy shot so you've got to take
2:51
them down and attach them on yourself so that is exactly what you're going to see me doing in a little bit in front of me
2:59
there that is Rick i'm sure everyone will recognize his uh his yellow box
3:05
unlike most of us he doesn't dive an inspiration he dives uh an Evo Plus
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which is the same size scrubber as an inspiration but it's only got the 2 liter cylinders on for oxygen and
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dilluent just kind of reduces the weight and there you go that uh loop in the lazy shot that is where my Kindle has
3:24
just gone on and hopefully you're all starting to see the dive computer display on the left hand side you're
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also seeing the fact that you can see the depth profile in the middle as well is just a fantastic addition and
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hopefully you're going to see more of these in my videos one of the problems that you realize with this one is that
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the sample rate on this dive isn't particularly great so that's why there's occasional mismatches between the depth
3:50
on the dive computer and the depth on the power lens what I do nowadays is
3:55
I've changed the the sample rate so this won't be a problem for future dives but for ones like this where I'm going back
4:01
and using old data then there is going to be this mismatch now as I'm descending here you can see that I'm
4:07
turning on my GoPro now for whatever reason I don't have the GoPro footage from this dive i I don't know what
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happened to it either got lost in my filing system or it didn't record or something like that this is one of the
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reasons that I carry loads of cameras now because I've ended up losing so much dive footage over the years or getting
4:23
bits missed or whatever anyway as you can see here we've got a thick green
4:29
layer on this dive so this is May so that's in and around the time of the plankton bloom so in this particular
4:35
dive the plankton was you probably saw there between about 12 and 30 m you know
4:40
15 and 30 m but I've now popped through it and you can see that the visibility is cleared up again you get this quite a
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lot this kind of layer layering with the plankton bloom but often as you can see here once you get below it you get
4:53
really clear water and really good visibility now Rick is in front of me there he hasn't messed around he'll be
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on his scooter as well and both of us do exactly the same thing which is that we scooter down which gets us down as as
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quickly as we possibly can and means that we we're not wasting you know time
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at the bottom or wasting time on the descent incurring additional decompression you don't really want to
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be hanging around so we're not and once again as we get deeper you can see the
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watercolor is changing it's gone this really deep dark blue so there isn't
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necessarily particularly much light down here but the visibility is great and if you look in front of me there you can
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start to see uh see the first strobe so we're not the first divers in fact I think we may even be the last divers in
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the water but in front of us there is obviously a line of strobes and we're
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going to add ours uh to the mix in a bit for the hopefully lots of you seeing my dive computer now you can see that uh
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I've gone past 70 m or just past 70 m uh 3 minutes into the dive already i'm in
5:56
mandatory decompression my TTS uh time to surface is up to 9 minutes my first
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stop uh is required as you can see there is meant to be at seven eight it that's
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not actually correct it would be uh it would be nine meters this is a bit of a glitch I think in the way that the data
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is exported from the sheer water but anyway there we go i've caught up with
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Rick i've got my strobe on the line and somewhere in front of us there is going
6:27
to be a wreck there you go there's there's the wreck and it's at this point I realize that I've come down onto onto
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hull and that's never a great sign because if you're on hull chances are
6:40
the wreck is either on its side or upside down and really clearly really soon we're going to realize that this
6:46
wreck is is mainly upside down which is is is not great because frankly nobody
6:52
wants to do a dive where you spend the whole time looking at hull you want to do a dive where you are looking at
6:59
interesting things now that thing off to my left hand side the rounded thing that's a boiler probably the bottom of a
7:04
boiler that's just poked up through the hole so in places on this dive you're going to see that the the hole breaks
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open and you can see into it but the important bit the interesting bit of
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this wreck majority of it is buried under things and that's going to be really clear later on and it's really
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it's really disappointing because we've come out you know 30 odd miles 20 m down
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we're going to incur a lot of decompression for whatever we do down here and it would be nice to know that
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you're there's a good chance of finding something interesting but already on this dive you know we're into kind of
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wishful thinking here so we're kind of hoping that a bit of the wreck might not be upside down we're hoping maybe some
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stuff has fallen off the side you know that's the kind of game that you game that you're in here but hey it is what
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it is uh that's in front of me there that's uh that's Steve Mortimer who is
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kind of the leader of the Gasperados this is uh all the Tampa stuff is done by the Gasperados
8:05
steve's probably being the first person down in fact he would be the first person down so he's swimming around and
8:10
in fact he's probably getting towards the end of this his dive so he's probably heading back towards the shot
8:16
line me I am just trying to figure out what is going on down here i'm trying to
8:22
figure out where I am just get some sort of bearing so I've obviously seen the boilers back there i guess you know what
8:28
I might be doing is looking for an engine or maybe some sort of indication that there might be a bridge or possibly
8:35
you know looking for a bow or something like this now we know the wreck is 110 m long so that's going to be a big wreck
8:42
you can see there I spotted a port hole and I've just motioned to that diver there to say there's a port hole there
8:47
now that's great because that is obviously part of the superructure so that's above the water and
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therefore you know is a sign that possibly in this area there's going to be other things maybe part of uh the
9:01
bridge maybe some bridge gear you know in an ideal world there'll be a bell what there is is something down there
9:07
you can see I've just spotted something non-ferris it's kind of a box there's some sort of gears or something inside
9:12
it maybe i I don't know um you can see there i'm just trying to get this out to have a look at it see if maybe you know
9:20
something interesting on it um obviously all these wrecks are the
9:25
same the instant you touch anything you just kick up the silt and there you go i found some sort of brass box and
9:32
generated a whole load of silt um I don't know why I don't spend a bit more time looking at it maybe I think I'm
9:38
going to go away and come back to it and I think that's actually what I what I do on this dive but I guess at this point
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it's quite early in the dive i'm still kind of hopeful that maybe somewhere around here is something a bit more a
9:50
bit more obviously better than a brass box but um as you're going to see in a
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bit there isn't really anything now the the one thing I do really kick myself about with this dive is that I didn't go
10:02
to the stern i don't know why I didn't go to the stern but Rick did and he took
10:08
some absolutely belting photos of the uh of the prop now you've seen one of those
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at the beginning of this video but this is another one here and it just looks
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really good and you know I think also shows that the wreck is completely inverted at that point so not much you
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can do about that though all you can do is hope that there's something off to the side or there's a as I say there's a
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crack in the wreck or whatever and this is what I'm doing here now what I don't know at this moment in time is that I'm actually heading forward i guess I
10:39
should have known that because I landed on the boilers i've then went to that area where the port hole and that brass
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block box was and that is um you know the kind of stuff you'd associate with superructure such as in and around the
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accommodation in the bridge area for a kind of classic um three castle four hold or five hold
11:00
steamship anyway this is me moving forward don't know what all this sort of
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stuff is here perhaps part of a mast i don't know that thing maybe to the right hand side maybe maybe a bit of the mast
11:13
had certainly has that feel about it obviously if that's forward and that's a forward mast forward mast is a potential
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area for a bell uh but as you can also see uh if there is a bell I don't find
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it and there will be a bell somewhere on the ship uh but almost certainly it's
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underneath everything and that's a pity because we're never going to identify it
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unless Unless we find something like that so many ships of this kind of size and
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era and design were lost in in this part of the world that without those it's
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impossible without something like that it's impossible to to say the identity now what you can see here is hopefully
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you starting to see all that chain the chain is to do with the anchor so this is this is the bow really there's not
12:03
much else to tell it apart from apart from the anchor chain and uh probably some anchors around somewhere although
12:09
uh I haven't seen any any yet obviously the other thing you get at the bow is
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the bell and where you'd normally get the bell and sometimes you get things like locker rooms uh sorry lamp rooms
12:21
with uh lamps and stuff in so unfortunately all this is probably just
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buried underneath all the remains of the plate and the hull and all that kind of stuff so this is really frustrating this
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kind of experience you've come out all this way you've come down and basically you we know almost certainly
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we're not going to get anything for our troubles so u but you know what part of
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this is what happens when you have a dive like this oh there there's the anchor again you can see the anchor
12:51
there going into the horse pipe there and then somewhere underneath all of there is is going to be the anchor and
12:58
the capston and and all that kind of stuff in fact there's a pair of what could be moing bolards there yeah I
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think that's probably what those are there so they've somehow managed to appear you know bits of the wreck have
13:09
broken down and those have those have kind of appeared so you know wrecks degrade in in all sorts of different
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ways and it's you it's not easy to understand how that happens you can all you can do is just sometimes see the
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results like like I've done there so here I am just having a look around sometimes bells up end up on seabeds so
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that's what I'm kind of looking around for there if you haven't seen my bell um sorry my bell my video of the stock
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force then that's exactly what happened with the stock force stock force was inverted and the bell somehow ended up
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about five or 10 meters away from the wreck just lying on the seabed by itself nothing else there and that's why nobody
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found it for years and years until Fran Fran had that great piece of fortune so if you've not watched my stop force
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video go and go and have a look at it and it shows a triumph really of
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sometimes you know just going back and having another look or spending the time to look in places that you might not
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think so that bit off the side of the wreck i always try and do that and you'll probably see that in quite a lot of my videos i often swim down the side
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of holes i swim sometimes just off bits of wreckage just trying to find interesting things there i think maybe
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it comes from the time when I was doing a lot of recreational diving so near us
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in Plymouth there are a couple of really popular wrecks the James Eaggan Lane Liberty ships sitting upright in about
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20 mters the Silla purpose sunk it was a Leander class frigot decommissioned in
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the late sorry in the yeah the late 80s and sunkers in 2002 2003 as for divers
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now you swim off the side of both of those wrecks on a Monday or Tuesday and you'll find all the stuff that people
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have dropped when they were when they were diving them over the weekend so I
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guess maybe that's part of the reason that I still go off the side of wrecks looking for stuff but anyway there you
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go about the best I can do there that that's a bit of a fish doing a run in fact there's not that many fish on this
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wreck i don't know why um a bit odd you know but but there isn't you know
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compared to to what we often get maybe it's the time of year maybe it's where it is who knows but um definitely not
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much so this is me swimming along what would have been the port side of the wreck the starboard side of the wreck
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was where I started and that was where uh we saw some of the stuff like that brass box for instance i've clearly just
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decided that the the starboard side of the wreck is the place to be the port side of the if anything it's kind of
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slightly lying on its starboard side so um I'm going over there and as I come over the top of the wreck here you can
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see that the wreck has started to crack open this is quite a a common thing you
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once wrecks degrade enough the hulls do tend to split and they you know they break open and if you have a look at my
15:51
Armond Branch video so the the wreck I bought off Facebook Marketplace that is a good example of a wreck where the the
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hull has just completely cracked open and you know stuff has been moved away
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really by the weather so you can see a lot of the cargo in the stern area where the where the hull has gone
16:09
so this is me back over on the other side now and you can see here there's that mast i think we saw that earlier on
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you saw me having a little bit of a look at it and you know once again I'm coming back you know maybe looking for the
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other bit of the mast i can't see it there so you can see where it's broken off so there would be a bit of the mast
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somewhere else it might be underneath it it might have been pulled off by a troller it might just be somewhere off to my left hand side and this is me you
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know once again having a look in and around here i don't know what these are cleats maybe or you know mounts for
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lights or something like that but maybe I'm kind of hoping that the bell might be might be there but it isn't as you
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can uh as you can see so but always worth a look one day I will do this and
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I will see uh I will see a bell but not today unfortunately so as I say back over on
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the starboard side of the wreck and I'm I'm now kind of starting to head back towards the stern which is where the
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shot is and if you think about the shot it was in and around the boilers so I guess the highest point of the wreck is
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probably where the boilers and the engine are cuz those things will both hold the wreck up unless there's there's
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big cargo the rest of the wreck will just slowly kind of crush down the other bit of the wreck that's quite high
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actually is the uh is the prop and the uh and the rudder and
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although I don't actually go there on this video you've seen all of that on Rick's uh on Rick's brilliant photos so
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here I am i'm uh heading back again and obviously you know after the mast there
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will be a a cargo hold and then after that cargo hold almost certainly is
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going to be the bridge area again so that's probably what I'm what I'm coming back to here and you probably just seen
17:52
there's another diver there oh that looks like a port hole there um in a bit of plate and you can see it's actually a
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bit of glass is in it but the the glass is smashed so there's you know somehow during either the sinking process or the
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uh the collapsing process the the glass has broken perhaps even during whatever sunk the ship and I think what I'm
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starting to get a feel for at the po this point is there is no wires on this ship i haven't seen any at all or maybe
18:20
those might look like wires but I think they're ropes or if there is any wires there's a very very limited number of
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them so for me this is a First World War era ship there's another port hole there um and there's my brass box now I'm
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really kind of frustrated myself i should have spent more time looking at this brass box i should have had a look and seen what was inside it because
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there was that kind of gearing mechanism which is quite interesting i don't think I've seen a box like that before instead
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I come over here and have a bit of a wiggle of that port hole but that port hole is is not moving it is in there
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pretty solidly so uh yeah brass box port hole and there was that other port hole I think just over to the left hand side
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but once again uh I saw that at the beginning of the dive and that's completely in play so isn't shifting and
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you know here I am looking away from the wreck once again hoping that something may have ended up over there there may
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be bridge gear for instance you know potentially there could be a bridge bell could be a maker's plate could be all
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sorts of stuff out here on the seabed what there is in fact is a whole load of nothing although that's a bit of coal I
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guess there is a bit of coal but there's nothing out here that looks um looks particularly interesting which is
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disappointing so all about trying to identify the wreck you know maybe a bit of crockery would be nice who knows
19:37
something just with uh a bit of a you know some writing on something where we
19:42
can identify this wreck but we're getting a whole load of nothing now for those of you who are paying attention to my uh dive computer and the dive profile
19:49
in the bottom and on the left hand side you can see there that my TTS is getting towards 80 minutes my uh ceiling is is
19:56
36 m so that's where my first stop is going to be um so I'm 90 m down you can
20:05
see along the bottom there you can see the dive profile you can see that little yellow dot showing where I am in in the
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dive and you know already I'm I'm into fairly serious amounts of decompression
20:15
for not particularly much bottom time and crucially nothing really to show for my bottom time you know I I haven't I
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haven't found anything that there's no kind of Eureka moments now that happens sometimes bit more coal there you
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probably saw it so I guess one thing we can say is that there's sufficient amount of coal on this that the
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um um that it was almost certainly a coal powered ship not really a surprise first
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world war you're not getting very very unusual to get anything that's oil oil
20:47
fired so you know all kind of fairly consistent with with with the impression I'm getting so let's you know loads of
20:56
ribs and and stuff broken apart here somewhere in around here there would be a galley somewhere in around here there
21:02
is going to be all the other facilities you need for a crew that looks like a little um combing there for a hatch
21:09
anyway I thought this might be a useful opportunity to show another one of Rick's great photos you can see the part
21:16
of the hull that's starting to split open and one of the other divers going in to have a look around i think it
21:22
really captures how great the visibility was on this dive but also how the wreck
21:28
in parts is starting to degrade that photo was a bit closer to the stern i
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not entirely sure I got I got in there i don't think I saw that gap but this is
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me uh still looking around in and around the bridge area you can see there that's uh that's clearly a boiler and that has
21:45
you know poked out of the wreck and bits of the hull have collapsed or maybe it's rolled out of
21:51
the wreck boilers weren't actually screwed in they were just kind of they rested on normally on kind of curved
21:58
mounts and that obviously has uh has poked off that there we go bit more um
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bit more super structure or in fact there you go that's a a paw hole there I think
22:08
um that's appears to have popped out of the wreck so it's nice it's got all the
22:14
intact glass and everything I think I'm just going to go down have a look at it turn it over see what sort of port hole
22:19
it is I think this is probably one from accommodation so it wouldn't have been
22:24
in the hull that's how come it's uh it's come out hull ones tend to be in really securely there you go that's probably
22:31
been under water 100 years and it's pretty much the most interesting thing I've seen on the wreck so far um but
22:38
yeah good opportunity to have another look at one of Rick's photos and there you know that's taken underneath the
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hull and I think you know shows once again how the hull is splitting open and
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you know at some point it will open up the whole wreck and you'll be able to see more things unfortunately all the really interesting stuff I'm pretty
22:55
certain will still be underneath everything so uh not really an opportunity to see see anything as for
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me on the dive you can see my TTS there is getting up towards it's it's getting close to 2 hours uh my first stop 42 m
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down so you know that's probably deeper than most recreational divers go i've
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done 22 minutes 90 m and I'm obviously starting to think
23:23
about the end of my dive oh there you go i don't know if you saw there i managed to get the the rope on from my from my
23:29
scooter slightly wrapped around the the cylinder valve on one of my cylinders but once again just taken it off there
23:36
and easy enough i think if I'd have thought about it what I should have done
23:41
at this point is actually gone to the stern and gone and had a look at that epic prop obviously I didn't know there
23:46
was an epic prop but it is a kind of sensible thing especially when you got a scooter to to get around the whole wreck
23:53
and have a a good look at everything because if you don't do that then you end up missing out on something like I
23:59
have absolutely done on this dive and it wasn't until uh later on on the way back Rick downloaded his photos from his
24:06
camera to his phone and was showing us all of those and I was like "Wow those are properly uh properly stunning." and
24:12
slightly uh disappointed that it was James uh who who appeared in that that particularly epic photo because
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obviously normally it's my role to uh to light things up for Rick so James kind of snuck in there and uh and got the
24:25
glory ahead of me and perhaps this is the reason why I didn't do it because where I am here at the moment you can
24:31
see that the we can see there's Rick and you can see there's uh there's the ke
24:37
and I think that's Rick just telling me that he's uh he's heading off and it's me starting to think about what I do
24:44
with my dive and I think maybe because Rick is is is is going and because I know I've got pretty much two hours of
24:52
decode to do I think I probably decide that I'm not going to go much further away than the shot line which is a pity
24:59
because the the stern is not far away from where I am now but hey uh there
25:05
there we go it it is what it is and you kind of I think the thing with all these kind of things is to evaluate your dive
25:12
when you're on the surface think about what you would do differently next time and try and build those lessons into
25:19
your next dive probably for me the the biggest lesson that I've learned in recent years is if you've got a bit of
25:25
crockery and you think there's something written on it always bring it up and then you can evaluate it on the surface
25:31
it often you can't see things underwater there isn't enough light also I need
25:36
reading specs so it can be difficult for me to see things so that's a good lesson
25:41
and anybody who's watched my na video will have seen that the benefits from doing that and the fact that we just
25:48
identified a wreck with a bit of broken crockery which was absolutely fantastic but this dive as you can see from the uh
25:55
the depth profile on the bottom this is really really close to being finished i
26:01
am pretty close to the shot line and I'm going to I think probably
26:07
look up in a minute and see it and head back up so this is just one of those cracks underneath there probably is the
26:14
is the engine somewhere if you were able to get in there and swim around you would you would almost certainly see the
26:19
engine cuz that's the reason it's being held up is by the the bulk and structure of the engine keeping it up that might
26:25
be a drive shaft there that I've just seen so this crack might be going transverse it might be going across the
26:31
wreck so um potentially you know you could get in there clearly I'm at the
26:37
end of my time i've got 130 minutes TTS h you can see the uh the strobes
26:42
flashing away there so for me the dive is over and I'm returning to the shot line i'm going to pick up my strobe and
26:49
then I'm going to get back to the surface but once again you can see the benefits of having great strobes
26:55
you can also see how fabulous the conditions on this dive are there's another diver up there who's also
27:01
heading back there's my lovely double strobes that you've seen on so many of my dives
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working really well guiding guiding me home and I think I'm probably the last diver left on this wreck rick as you've
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already seen is he he left a bit earlier than me so once again it's it's the
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important thing about having something to guide you back now both those strobes are working the visibility was actually
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really good but there are circumstances in which that might not be the case so having the the double strobe is good in
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fact sorry there is one other diver left i think that's my friend Michael in fact he has just come down so I know I
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remember exactly what happened on this dive he had problems took him a while to get in he came down and got on got on
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the wreck and basically there was nobody else on the wreck but him you probably saw there i had a fast ascent alarm on
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my computer in fact there you go again and this is just a technique that I use
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i get off the bottom really quickly the pressure change proportionally at this depth is not that great so I do I use a
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scooter to get myself up relatively quickly to about half the distance between the bottom on my first deco stop
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then I slow things down and I take it a bit more steadily from there so I'm just telling the computer that I know there's
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a uh there was a fast descent there so that is my uh that's my dive pretty much
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complete i know you guys all like looking at my uh deco profile so this is the uh the deco profile here you've seen
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a lot of it through the video but I just highlight two points on the ascent really so you see me there leaving
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bottom with about 130 minutes TTS get up on the ascent uh by the time I get to
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first stop that's down to about 120ish and then what I do is around about here you can see me shifting from
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1.3 to 1.5 P2 which chops some time off and then the other thing I do which
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which I I don't know why I did this i don't do this very often but I I then switch from try mix to air in my
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dilluent and obviously I do some dill flushes and all those kind of things and that obviously chopped another about 15
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minutes of deco off and then what I do is at the end here you can see my deco is cleared but I I actually stay down
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for quite a bit longer and I think that's probably because I was feeling a bit embarrassed about the the air switch
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so don't do that anymore not really certain why I did it on this dive anyway enough of my diving sins this is what it
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looks like uh during the decompression you can see there's a lazy shot there with the uh the red boy and all the
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DSMBBS around it there's a three DSMBBS I think that are off to the the side and
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that kind of separation is always an issue when you have people decompressing under DSMBBS fortunately the separation wasn't
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very much and everybody gets back on the boat okay this is me you can see swimming in there's the back of the boat
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there's Chris operating the lift you can see what a fabulous day it is especially when you consider how far offshore we
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are so it was also a late day this is us heading back in into the glorious sunset
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there as you can see and although not the result we hoped hey you know what still a great day out we all enjoyed
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ourselves and yeah I hope you have too and I hope you will join me for another
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one of my videos thank you
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