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hi my name is Don Robinson and this is
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my deep wreck diver Channel I get loads
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of comments on my videos from people
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amazed at the quality of some of the
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Dives I'm fortunate enough to do so I
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thought I'd put something together that
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explains why I think Plymouth is the
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best location in the UK and arguably the
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world for deep technical wreck diving so
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one of the great things about Plymouth
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is how much diving we've got at a really
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good depth for for a technical diver so
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for me obviously you can dive deep in
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the 100 m but you don't get very much
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bottom time if you dive shallower than
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60 you know arguably not really a
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technical dive in my view so that sweet
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spot of 60 to 100 m is kind of where you
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want to be now if you look at this image
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here uh you can see down the bottom that
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shows the uh the depth in the English
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Channel and the what the bit at the top
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shows you know where it is so basically
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you can see that kind of green to
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darkish blue is where we want to be and
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out of Plymouth there is just a whole
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load of it so of course it's not just
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the depth that you're interested in it's
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also what you're going to go and dive
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now the name of this channel deep wck
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diver yeah no surprise I'm interested in
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the wrecks and the great thing is about
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the English Channel is that two world
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wars and a whole hundreds of years of
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shipping colliding into each other and
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sinking in storms and everything has
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just given us a ton of uh of diving now
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this is the chart with Plymouth uh right
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in the top in the center there and you
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can see I kind of zooming out there now
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the thing I'd just like you to focus on
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is each of these red dots or red wreck
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symbols on the uh on the chart every one
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of those is a mark and the vast majority
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of them are recks and that is probably
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out to about 40 or 50 miles of Plymouth
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you can see there is an awful lot of
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them now most of them uh particularly
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the further ones out May never have been
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dived some of them will only have been
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dived once and possibly a long time ago
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which just makes for a great opportunity
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to go and do loads of exploration and
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finding new stuff if I tell you that in
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the last four or five years I've been on
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Dives where maybe 20 possibly even more
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25 rex have been identified out of
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Plymouth just gives you a feel for how
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much uh exploration there is still to be
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done so uh obviously it's not just about
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the Rex it's not just about the depth
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it's not just about the exporation there
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other things that we need to factor in
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as well so I'm going to Chuck in the
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visibility now the visibility in
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Plymouth not as great as say somewhere
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like Malin obviously not as great as
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somewhere um you know really warm you
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know Tropics maybe bikini or truck or
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somewhere like that but on its day can
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still be pretty epic you can get 20 or
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25 maybe even 30 m visibility on a great
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day so this is good good what about the
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water temperature I can hear loads of
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people out there those of you who are
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dive in Tropics or the
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Mediterranean um and and you're all
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going W it's rubbish isn't it you know
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English Channel it's going to be
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freezing cold well of course certainly
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colder than uh than it is in some of the
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places I mentioned but once again height
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of Summer late summer we'll get 17 maybe
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18 on The Deco stops so that's entirely
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reasonable it's not like the Baltic uh
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which is literally Baltic or or uh you
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know some of the kind of Northern parts
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of of Canada or uh places like that so
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not really warm but certainly warm
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enough that you don't need to take
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extreme precautions to avoid the cold so
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depth is good uh lots of wrecks warmth
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is kind of okay visibility can be
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outstanding on its day what else do we
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need to think about well the key thing
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for uh for technical diving especially
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in tidal waters is you need the boats to
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do it and we are absolutely blessed out
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of Plymouth we've got several really
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good operators who uh you know really
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switched on for doing this kind of stuff
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and are used to doing it so the support
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is there on the surface there's also
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other things as well you know gas
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Logistics so no problems at all getting
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helium and trimix and oxygen and nitrox
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uh softener lime kit repaired you know
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all those kind of stuff readily
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available in Plymouth we got a whole ton
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of of dive shops and dive providers so
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that is uh that's awesome as well uh
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what else well I guess marine life
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English Channel absolutely Chalker with
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it so uh loads of fish on all the recks
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load if you're into sort of pink sea
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fans and all that kind of stuff so loads
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of kind of cold water corals uh and of
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course increasingly we are starting to
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see a whole load of dolphins and tuna in
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the waters so uh lots and lots of marine
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life for those of you who like that kind
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of thing and I guess on the subject of
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uh of Life the other thing of course to
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remember is Plymouth is clearly one of
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the uh one of The Nightlife hot spots of
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the United Kingdom you want a good night
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Union Street well not quite what it once
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was but the barbacan is still uh a very
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very uh lively place and of course we
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have the very famous Dolphin Hotel
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legendary drinking establishment and uh
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that's always very welcoming to divers
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and in fact anybody else and of course
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another organization that's always very
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welcoming to divers is uh the diving
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diseases Research Center uh up in dford
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in Plymouth which is one of the leading
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uh recompression Chambers in the world
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pioneered a whole load of treatments and
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therefore if something does go wrong you
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know you're in good hands so there you
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go that's me making a case for Plymouth
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uh we've got it all if you're if you're
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interested uh let us know if you uh
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disagree and you think that somewhere
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rubbish like truck or bikini or
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somewhere on the west West Coast or the
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east coast of America Caribbean
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Mediterranean Egypt whatever it is uh
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then please I look forward to you making
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your case in the comments okay thanks a
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lot and I'll look forward to seeing you
