SS Cuvier Wreck: Is This Britain's Perfect Dive?

What does the perfect wreck dive look like? Intact. Upright. A genuine story. Fascinating cargo. The right depth — challenging enough to mean something, but achievable without a week's expedition. On paper, it sounds impossible to find. But off the coast of Dover, the SS Cuvier ticks every single box. Built over a century ago, the Cuvier met a brutal end in the Dover Straits. Struck by a vessel a fraction of her size, she went down stern first in minutes. Between 26 and 38 crew members were lost. Only three survived. A French board of inquiry blamed her own captain. And she's been sitting on the seabed ever since — upright, intact, and still carrying her cargo of Dutch crockery. In this video, I take you on two dives on the Cuvier. The first into the aft holds, searching through the sand for chamber pots and rice bowls over 125 years old. The second to the bow section — which tells a rather different story from the diagrams. And throughout, I'm building the case that this might just be Britain's most perfect wreck dive. 📍 Location: Dover Straits, UK 📏 Depths: 35m on deck / 38–44m at the seabed 🤿 Accessible for: Twin sets and Mod 1 CCR — achievable without trimix I dived with Mutiny Diving from Dover and cannot recommend them highly enough - https://mutinydiving.com/ Thanks to Stefan Panis and the IMASS International Shipwreck Conference for finally convincing me to make the trip to Dover. It won't be my last. If you've dived the Cuvier — or you're planning to — drop it in the comments. I'd love to know what you found down there. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ *Chapters*