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SUPER Excited About My Next Dive!
Mar 31, 2025
I've got great deep diving plans for the coming weekend which I share in this first episode of what I hope will be a weekly podcast! Spoiler ALERT: it will be massive if we find it! I also talk about my next two videos and what to expect from them *Highlights* 00:00 Introduction 03:11 This weekend's target!! 08:37 Unboxing video and competition 09:57 The glass wreck - a great dive! *Orcatorch D710 Underwater Torch* You can buy the Orcatorch D710 that features in this video using the link below. Make sure you select the option for the £20 voucher to get it at a discounted price!! https://amzn.to/4jhddRk *Kit I Use* Note, some of these are affiliate links so help support making my videos: - Gloves are Ansell Alphatec 87-063 - https://amzn.to/4jDHhX4 - Main torch is an Orcatorch D630 - https://amzn.to/4jlT4tA
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so I thought I'd use this format to
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share with you some really exciting news
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about my diving plans for this weekend
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those of you who watch some of my other
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videos will know that we have a long
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running project to go and find the US
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Coast Guard tamper now the great news is
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that we're off this weekend to have
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another go at looking at at it for it
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and we got a new Fresh Target so um I'm
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going to tell you all about that uh in a
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bit but before I do that I just want to
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let you know a couple of other things
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that I'm going to talk about first thing
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is to uh let you know what my two videos
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that I'm going to produce this uh this
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week are the first one is I'm going to
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do an unboxing for this beautiful little
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Ora torch d710 you may have seen me
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using it on the Scala dive that I uh
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that I've just finished but um yeah I'm
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really excited going to do an unboxing
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video and there's an opportunity in that
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uh to win that not that particular one
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but an identical one um so anyway more
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details about that uh in a bit and the
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other thing I'm going to talk about is
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my third uh video this week which is
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going to be uh a dive on the glass wck
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the glass wck is actually proper name is
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a Charwood very famous local dive around
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here it's uh it was a iron hold sailing
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ship sunk in the 19th century absolutely
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ladened with as you might imagine glass
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so uh anyway more about that once again
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further on in this podcast before I I
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crack on though and tell you about the
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tamper dive I just want to say uh some
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thank yous and the first first thing I
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want to do is say thank you to the
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people who've gone to the buy me a
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coffee website and handed over some of
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their hard-earned cash um I I just I
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really appreciate that it's a lovely
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thing to do and um I'll use it obviously
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to to to fund my diving uh uh diving
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Expeditions and obviously the content
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from that will come on this channel and
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you get to be able to see it so so
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particularly want to say thank you to
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Eric stot and Eric I love all the
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questions you asked me on my channel
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that's absolutely brilliant thank you
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Patrick bird once again really love
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those photos that you sent me from uh
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from diving in the Great Lakes really
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appreciate that thank you very much and
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Frankie cheu um once again another big
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thank you to you as well my friend so um
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that's brilliant the other people I'd
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like to thank is basically everybody who
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watches my channel everybody who's
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subscribed everyone who's liked everyone
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who's shared everyone who's commented
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whatever you've done because um it's
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just been incredible we've you know it's
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I've gone over 9,000 subscribers
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yesterday I've gone over uh 9,000
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uh sorry 900,000 views on my videos and
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I've gone over a 100,000 hours of of
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watch watching you know people watching
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my videos I mean those numbers are just
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mindboggling and when I started this I
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had nowhere no idea that I was going to
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get any anywhere close to those things
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so all of you have made that happen so
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so thank you very much when you're doing
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this when you're making a video you've
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got no idea if anybody's going to watch
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it or not and uh to to get those kind of
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numbers to see all the comments and all
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those sorts things just just is
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incredible for my own validation and uh
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you know makes me want to carry on doing
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it frankly so um so thank you very much
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to all of you so that's a picture of the
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US Coast Guard tamper and that's the
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vessel that we're going to look for this
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weekend we've had loads of goes at
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looking for it we've dived all sorts of
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marks and if you have a look at some of
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my videos the one about the LCT for
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instance that was uh when we were
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looking for the Tampa we found we found
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that instead and there's a whole load of
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other ones so it's it's a Target that
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we've been searching for for ages and
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when I say we've been searching for it
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it's actually the Gasper dive team which
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is basically centered around Steve and
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Barbara Mortimer they've found loads and
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loads of recks around the UK barbs is a
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fabulous researcher Steve brings a team
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together we all get we're lucky enough
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to be part of the team um so that's it's
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Gasper's dive team we're looking for the
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looking for the Tempa this is our third
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or maybe fourth year in a row when we've
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been looking for it so what is the
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tamper right the Tampa was a US Coast
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Guard vessel that was sunk on the 26th
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of September 1918 by the German
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submarine UB 91 it's uh I think
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surprising to many of us that the US
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Coast Guard were actually here in the uh
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in the UK protecting convoys uh
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escorting them trying to SN German
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submarines whereas I guess most people
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would assume that would be a job for the
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Navy but the US Coast Guard didn't feel
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that at the time so they had they had
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tamper over here and when Tampa went
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down she went down with 111 members of
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the Coast Guard on board four US Navy
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guys and then 16 passengers 11 of whom
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were Brits and five of whom were
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civilians and this was a huge loss of
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life at the time it was even more than
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we on the Jacob Jones uh the United
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States ship Jacob Jones if you've not
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seen my video on that I I definitely
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recommend it so it was a really seminal
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moment for for quite a Young Nation at
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the time so the US Coast Guard have
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always kept a vessel called tamper in
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service ever since and you can go on
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their website you can see they're really
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proud of their history they they
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consider this a really important part of
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of it so um but nobody's been able to
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find it so we're going to going and have
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another look for it and you go yeah
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great obviously you dive loads of
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targets um you know yeah fantastic well
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this time uh Barbara who's our
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researcher is really really confident
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that she's found it she's gone away and
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looked at the primary archives again
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she's realized that that the searches
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that have been done in the past
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including by uh by us and the gasparatos
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um have not looked in the right area so
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she's looking for she's looking for
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something and she thinks she's found it
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now because the tamper was quite small
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and the torpedo that hit it was so big
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there's not going to be very much of it
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left so it was only 60 M long the
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torpedoed supposedly blew it in half
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that was a report from the Germans so
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therefore we're looking for a relatively
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small wreck that's in at least two
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pieces so um and we know it's a long way
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out so this is going to be 90 95 M deep
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uh and 50 odd miles away from Shore so
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it's going to be it's going to be a
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really big dive and those are the kind
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of Dives that we've been doing in the in
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the past while we're looking for it so
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uh you know it's it's it's I'm really
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excited by it because you know barbar so
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confident that she's found it this time
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um and um you know we found so many
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other interesting things while we we
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we've looked for the tamper in the past
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and obviously if we do find the tamper
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it is going to be an absolutely amazing
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achievement and almost certainly we'll
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make uh headlines around the world
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certainly I would imagine in the United
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States so um that is this weekend's plan
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and um obviously um you know we're in
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that cycle now um it's Monday um we're
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going to meet up there on Friday we've
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got an Airbnb booked then it'll be an
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early start on Saturday and another
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early start on Sunday uh if we find it
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we might dive it twice and if we don't
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find it we're we're probably going to
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have a go another Target but um so we're
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all planning we're all waiting and
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obviously the key thing we need now is
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confirmation from the skipper that the
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weather's okay we're diving with a guy
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called Chris low and his boat Atlantic
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diver now he is uh it's out of new on
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the North Coast of Devon um he is the
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guy who has done everything out of new
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for the past 20 odd years 20 30 years
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he's um a fisherman by background his
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son's a fisherman he's absolutely
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steeped in the local uh conditions so if
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anybody is going to get us on it it is
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going to be Chris and if anybody's going
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to make the right call about the weather
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and all those kind of things it's going
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to be Chris so um now often with this
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kind of diving people don't um don't you
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know publicize what they're going to do
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people don't put it out there but um
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I've spoken to Steve and Barbs about
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this and they're very happy for me to do
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this podcast and to tell you that we're
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going to go and look for it all being
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well this weekend so what I'd like you
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all to do please is is is whatever you
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do if you keep your fingers crossed if
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you say a prayer um if you um I don't
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know sacrifice animals whatever it is
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you do if you could do it please for
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this weekend so uh so we get the weather
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and and we get on that Mark that is a
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tamper it would be absolutely amazing um
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so yeah thank you very much and keep
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everything crossed so that's the first
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thing I wanted to talk to you about on
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this uh on this podcast so the second
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thing I wanted to talk to you about is
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the unboxing video that I'm going to do
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on Friday now those of you who watched
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my recent dive on the Scala will see
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that I had one of these things down
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there with me these little orcatorch
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d710s um guy very kindly sent me them I
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sent me one to kind of do an unboxing
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video on now I actually had one already
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because I love orcatorch stuff so um you
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know really really happy to kind of give
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my um seal of approval to uh you know
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products that I use um and and that I
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find good so um he's actually sent me
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this though so this is a brand new one
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and I'm going to do an unboxing video on
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that one and um I'm not going to use it
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what I'm going to do is offer uh
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somebody the opportunity to win this
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orcatorch um and that'll be a part of
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the video on Friday will be how you can
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win this so uh yeah uh stay tuned and
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you know good luck hopefully uh you well
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somebody some lucky person is going to
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get one of those little orcatorch d710s
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um and if you want what I've done is
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I've put in the chat um a link to to
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where you can go on to the website for
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the guy who sells these things and
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there's actually a voucher on there as
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well so uh he knocked going to knock 20
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quid off for people who watch um this
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channel so uh it's got to be a good
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thing I guess so uh the third thing I
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said I was going to talk to you about
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was the Charwood also known uh around
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here as the glass wreck it's uh out by
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the Edon Lighthouse so not super far out
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not super deep 60 M really really well
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dived and the reason it's been really
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well dived is because obviously that
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that 60 m is a great depth for people
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who are uh starting to get into
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technical diving it's also it's only
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sort of 13 or 14 miles out so it's quite
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close as well so you don't need to do a
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massive day out to go and dive there and
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in the past I've even combined a dive on
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that for a technical dive with a dive on
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on a nearby Reef called hand deep for um
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for some recreational divers as well so
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it's it's a lovely dive and the thing
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about it is the reason it's it's called
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The Glass wreck is because it was
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carrying glass from uh somewhere on the
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conent I think to Chile now it wasn't
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particularly expensive glass you know
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this isn't Waterford Crystal or anything
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like this this is fairly uh cheap
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everyday everyday glass in fact uh
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here's an example of one of the things
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that I found on it in the past that's a
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kind of decanter I guess you know wine
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maybe or pork or something like that
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would have uh would have had in it and
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there's a there's a stopper for it so
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obviously that's uh oops a nice thing to
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have and you also get kind of lots of
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other bits and pieces you know these
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kind of things as well so um loads of
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nice bits and pieces on on the childwood
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and uh on its day when conditions are
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right it can be an absolutely wonderful
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dive so that is the uh the dive that I'm
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going to produce and publish on Sunday
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so hopefully you found this podcast
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interesting my plan is to do more of
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these probably on a Monday and I'll I'll
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be covering a whole raft of things in
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them um like this one maybe talk about
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my my diving plans maybe not just for
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the week ahead but for also um the year
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ahead so I think probably what I'll do
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next Monday is talk you to you about the
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trips that I've got planned but I'm also
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going to use it uh these podcasts to
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have kind of General discussions about
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things so I get I get lots of kind of
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comments in the feedback uh sorry feed I
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get lots of comments people saying
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things like you know how did you get
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into technical diving um you know what
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was your path um you know what's your
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background so I'll maybe cover a bit of
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those kind of things I'll also uh talk
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you know about my thoughts on on a few
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different things like you know how um if
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you want to get into rebreathers what
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you should do uh maybe talk about some
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safety stuff uh a bit about the mindset
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those kind of things and uh just some
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general thoughts on uh on the diving
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industry so that's what I'm going to
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hope to do with these podcasts different
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format to to the videos that I normally
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do uh I hope you all uh you enjoy them I
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hope you find they work for you I mean
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obviously what I would love to do as
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always is get your comments tell me you
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know what you want me to talk about tell
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me what you'd like to hear more about or
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less about uh and as always please you
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know uh if you could support me by
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giving me a like or uh sharing it those
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kind of things are just really super
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helpful so uh so thank you very much and
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uh fingers crossed for this weekend
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every one please