SS Persier Wreck Dive | Plymouth’s Most Famous WW2 Dive

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Two huge boilers and a slightly smaller
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but still significant donkey boiler are
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pretty much the first things you
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guarantee to see on the wreck of the
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Persia. It's an awesome wreck lying in
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30 m of water just outside Plymouth.
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It'll be dived hundreds maybe thousands
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of times every year. But not all divers
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know the true story.
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Built in 1918 as the War Buffalo, it was
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torpedoed towards the end of the Second
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World War with a loss of 20 of its crew.
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The wreck was missing until the 1960s
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when it was bought by a local dive club
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who did an awful lot of salvage on it,
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including the massive bronze prop, the
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gun, and pretty much anything else they
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could get their hands on.
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It's quite flat now, but there's still
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plenty to see, including the gun mount,
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the steering quadrant, the massive
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rudder, and of course, the prop shaft.
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When you're down there, enjoy. It's a
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brilliant wreck, but you should never
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forget the story.

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