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The largest WW1 shipwreck in the British Isles!
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Apr 22, 2025
The largest WW1 shipwreck of the British Isles was built on the same slipway as the Titanic and was nearly as large. It was so big that sinking it required two German submarines. A massive 225 metres (740 feet) long and 32,120 GRT, the SS Justicia was the second largest ship sunk in World War One. It was operated as a troop ship by the White Star Line until torpedoed on 20 July 1918. The wreck now lies in nearly 70 metres off NW Ireland and is considered one of the Malin Head "Classics". I have dived it on multiple previous occasions but This was our check out dive at the beginning of a deep exped in 2022 so the video also includes a test of the deep bailout procedure. It didn't go totally to plan so you'll hear/see me describe what happened at the end of the video. *Highlights* 00:00 Introduction 05:32 So big it took two submarines! 11:06 Famous photo! 15:06 Twelve massive scotch boilers 19:08 Train hard: fight easy! 26:12 The spare gas arrives .... but then it goes wrong 32:16 Decompression profile for a 70m dive *CCR Training with Nick Viney* Nick Viney is my buddy in this video. He's an exceptionally experienced PADI Course Director and Tec CCR Instructor and you can find him here - https://www.tec-diver.eu/ *Mevagh Diving (Laura Dean)* For anyone wanting to dive some of the finest deep wrecks in the world then Malin Head is the place to go. If you're going there then I strongly recommend Mevagh Diving and their boat Laura Dean - https://mevaghdiving.com/
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it's pretty well known that the largest ship to be sunk in the first world war
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was the Titanics younger and slightly larger sister ship the Britannic what's
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much less well known is that the second largest ship to be sunk was the SS
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justia and that's what I'm going to be diving today hi this is Dom Robinson and
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welcome to my deep wreck diver Channel as always with my videos I'm going to make sure you get the history of the
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rest I'm also going to make sure you understand the layout but what I've also got on this dive is an explanation of
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how it sits in the context of the first dive of a deep Expedition week and as
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you can see here what we're doing is practicing a deep bailout now at this
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point it looks pretty good but you're going to see towards the end of the video that this drill didn't go entirely
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as we hoped anyway more of that later this was a 2022 guus Tech expedition to
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Malin head and this is a core group of us although we were also joined by some
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equally disreputable friends from both the UK and Ireland for those who have no
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idea where Malin head is then it's on the very northwest coast of the Republic
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of Ireland and is pretty well known as one of the finest locations for wreck
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diving in the world we were fortunate enough to be able to use Laura deine which is an outstanding boat and one
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that I've used on a number of previous trips the aim of this expedition was to
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go and dive the deeper recks the standard Malin itinerary is what they call the classics and these are
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brilliant Wrecks All in the 60 to 70 M range now we've done those so the aim of
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this trip was to try and get to some of the much deeper ones although we were
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all well dived up we felt that we needed to do a bit of progression so we thought
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we'd start off with one of the classics and that's why we're here on the justia
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which is about 68 69 M now the more
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observant of you will notice that most of my videos normally start off with me in The Descent and I'm not doing that on
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this dive it's straight onto the Bottom now the reason isn't that I don't want
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to show you the uh The Descent the reason is at this point I was having loads of issues with my uh my video
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cameras this is the old uh parall lens dive camera and it was mounted on my
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mask and for whatever reason it occasionally wouldn't turn on during the
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dive so this one at the bottom of the dive I got my buddy to check and it
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wasn't it hadn't been turned on so I got him to turn it on and that's why the video for this dive starts with me on
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the bottom so let's talk about the history of the justia and you've got to
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say first of all that it's got some fantastic links with the most famous shipwreck in the world which is
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obviously the Titanic so the uh the link with the Titanic the first one is that
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justia was built on the same slipway so they launched the Titanic the next ship
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they built was a justia now when they built it it wasn't called the justia it
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was called the stat and d uh I think that's probably how you pronounce it now I'm going to come back to this in a
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minute and the reason is because as you can see on the dive there with my torch I'm highlighting those uh beautiful
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brass Windows now they are absolutely massive they're um uh Port holes I guess
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they would have been in the cabins of the ship and uh the really fascinating things about them is they pull out and
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then rotate through 90Ā° absolutely incredible things I've seen one um on
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the surface uh actually as part of a guy's house don't know how it got there but um it's it's an incredible thing now
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uh I'm Al as you can see here I'm having a look there's some other stuff that I'm just kind of pulling out there now one
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of the things with the justia is it is absolutely smashed to Smither so the
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only bit of it that stands above the seabed are the actual uh boilers and bits of the engine and the very very
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famous bow which we're going to come back to uh to later on and you've already seen one of the photos uh at the
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beginning of this um at the beginning of this video so moving back to the St and
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Dam so it was being built before the start of the first world war for the Holland America line but when the first
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world war kicked off they agreed to let the United Kingdom have the ship and we
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renamed it as the justia it was being used as a transport primarily to bring
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troops over from America in 1918 when it was spotted by a German submarine and
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you can imagine this ship is 225 M long it is absolutely massive anyway she was being
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escorted uh as she headed from Belfast obviously where she was built over to uh
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New York and she was escorted by destroyers when she was spotted by the UB 64 which fired a torpedo at her and
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hit her the uh the justia developed a list but and this is another great
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Titanic link unlike the Titanic the watertight doors were closed in time and
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she was kept float the uh UB 64 continued to fire Torpedoes at the
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justia and this just shows how big a ship it was because uh the Gunner I think it fired five Torpedoes in total
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two hits um two of them were destroyed by the Gunners on board the justia and
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one of them missed but it didn't sink so the justia was being taken in toe by a
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tug called the Sonia the Sonia was taking uh the justia back to lock
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swillie uh the UB 64 realizing it hadn't sunk the justia put out a radio message
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and this was heard by the ub1 124 which fired a load more Torpedoes at her
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hitting a midships with two killing a number of the engine crew and uh
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eventually causing the justia to roll onto her starboard side and sink the
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Royal Navy who had three destroyers in the area weren't very impressed by this so they sent the Destroyers after the UB
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124 depth charged her got her to the surface and then sank her by gunfire
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however the damage was done and the German press celebrated this achievement
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now going back to the dive here you can see that I've uh I've reached the shotline you can see there's some divers
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on it you can see there that's my buddy uh Nick and I'm going to come back to him in in a minute you've also seen the
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boilers there and there's a huge number of boilers on the justia rows on rows of
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them this was such a big wreck it needed them to uh to keep the massive engines supplied with steam and provide the
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power to move the uh move the ship forward now although I've come back to the boilers and come back to the shot I
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don't actually want to be here so Nick and me we're scootering off to see more of the wreck now while we're doing that
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I just want to talk to you about some of the challenges with uh running deep Expeditions and one of the challenges is
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always people it's one of those things you need to make an expedition work you
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need to have the right number of people on the boat because because it's all about the money so uh you need to fill
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up every space on the boat you're going to be going out a long way these are expensive Dives if you've got spare
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places on the boat that's going to that cost for that spare place is going to be divided up amongst everyone else so when
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we were planning this trip we had our 10 divers for the trip they were all sorted
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then and I'd taken deposits off them and all that kind of stuff and then with um about a few weeks to go one of the guys
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had to drop out for for personal reasons now at this point it was a it was a real
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conundrum what did we do so uh I was really determined to try and recruit somebody else but you know we were going
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to be doing 120 130 M so there's only a relatively limited number of people who
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are capable of doing those kind of depths and to get somebody at short notice was always going to be really
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difficult so uh I did what any sensible PE person would do I stuck it on social
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media I put it out on Facebook and said we've got this trip would anybody like to come along and uh I wasn't really
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expecting to get much of a response but Nick got in touch with me and said yeah I'd love to come and I was like right
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okay and then there's this kind of conundrum because you have to uh make a
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decision you know this is a team game is uh you know what's Nick going to be like
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we didn't nobody knew him he wasn't recommended by anybody so uh I I said to
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him fine but I want to speak to you first so I then conducted what can only be described as a as an an interview
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over the phone and uh I got to understand more about him and and and uh
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you know and then I had to make a judgment about whether I thought he was the per sort of person who could be uh
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could be you know capable of doing this kind of diving so uh now as it turned
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out uh he absolutely can Nick is a great bloke he was brilliant on this trip I've
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done loads and loads of diving with him now um the other thing I would say is Nick is also a CCR instructor and the
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famous advice for uh for for choosing an instructor is to choose an instructor
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who does the kind of diving that you want to do and Nick does this kind of
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diving so if you are uh wanting to learn to be a a CCR diver he teaches on the
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inspiration so if you want to learn how to dive on an inspiration then I I
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highly recommend Nick he's based in the the kind of middle of the country so uh you know if that's if that's your thing
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I strongly advise you to get in touch with him anyway so there's nick uh and this dive this justia dive was was
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effectively a checkout dive for him as well so um it it worked in a couple of different levels it it was uh yeah it's
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good for all of us we were going to do some drills and I'm going to come back to that in a moment it was also the opportunity for me to see what Nick was
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like in the water and uh he absolutely aced it I'm sure he was probably also doing the same thing as well making sure
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that he hadn't ended up with a bunch of Cowboys or buffoons or whatever so um I haven't really talked that much about
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the dive um I've talked about loads of stuff around the dive but anyway you can see uh I've been away I've come back to
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the boilers one of the things unfortunately I don't have any video of is the bow of
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the justia now it is by far and away the best bit of the wreck uh anybody who's seen photos of the J will have seen the
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famous bow shot photos it's it stands upright although quite a lot of it is buried in the sand it is leaning over to
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the uh port side and that lean is slowly getting worse even in my time diving it I've seen it go further and further over
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and I'm sure it won't be too long until it collapses to the seabed so if you want to see it uh my top tip is uh is
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don't is don't wait but the just issue is a brilliant dive deserves all the plits I mean you've seen here there's
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just so much of it there's stuff all over the place here I am in and around the uh the boilers and the engine area
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and uh there's there's a ton of different stuff I mean there's there's bits and pieces all over it you've seen those massive bronze Windows you've seen
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the huge boilers um you've seen the ballards you know there there's just all sorts of bits and pieces as you would
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expect from a wreck that is that is so so big you might ask how come it is so
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badly deteriorated I mean you compare this to something like uh the BR tanic for instance which is which is also on
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on its side and is you know almost completely intact oh I think here this is uh this is me uh this looks in and
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around the engines here you can see the engine has has collapsed over that's the uh the engine stands and I think the
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Pistons and stuff are off over to the uh to the right hand side here you can see uh various bits of crankshaft and all
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that kind of stuff so uh why is it collapsed over now there is a a study done on it as part of um a TV program I
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think what it what it says is that the the landed on its uh on its port side
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and then what happened oh this looks like a condenser here I would guess or maybe the inside of a boiler and then
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what happened is it was leaning over to the side on the sand then the sand got washed away and the strong currents that
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are in this area gradually pushed the super structure off the side of it and then it kind of slowly collapsed down
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onto the seabed I mean the other thing that may have uh may have been problematic is is I suspect in the
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second world war this would have been dep charged a lot as well it was quite common for the um for the uh you know as
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part of the anti-submarine campaign oh there you go looking see the engine there really really uh you know one of the engines it's it's really obvious
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there off to the left hand side you can see the Pistons um and you can see the uh the cylinder heads and all those kind
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of things uh I've given Nick the turnaround so I think we're we're starting to head back towards the
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towards a shot now but yeah so so I suspect this was dep charged quite a lot as well and that probably account of
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quite a lot of the destruction so uh just coming back to the boilers now it had 12 of these uh these squat Scotch
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boilers two engines and a steam turbine all uh driving
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three uh props now I don't visit the props on this dive but I have been to them before and as you would expect
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they're uh they're just unbelievable things now at this period in my diving I
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uh I carried both a Stills camera and a uh and the video that's on on the side
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of my head mainly I was I was taking Stills photos and the great thing about the justia and in fact all of the Malin
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recks as you can see down here this is 70 M the visibility is wonderful you can
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see there's a whole load of ambient light up in front of me there with the yellow fins and the yellow um box that
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is um that's Nick he one of the unusual things about him or no not unusual maybe
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interesting things about him is unlike most of us who dive in Inspiration with a an aftermarket box such as a Gbox uh
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Nick Dives it in absolutely standard configuration and the reason he does that is because he says you know that's
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what he teaches in that's what he teaches people to dive so he thinks it's it's the right thing to do and have to
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say fair play fair play to him that is that is a good call and his yellow fins obviously great as well uh a lot like my
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yellow gloves they stand out really well and uh you can never miss him um lots of
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people think that um all diving gear has has to be black actually on this kind of stuff it's really good to have high
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visibility uh equipment it just makes such a different if difference if you're looking around for somebody what I
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thought I should probably do is for anybody who's interested in learning to dive with Nick um I've put a link up in
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the uh sort of the top right hand corner of this so uh you can get onto his website if you're if you're interested
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does all sorts of stuff he's a Patty course director runs trips um as well as doing all the CCR training so uh clearly
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uh you know he's a talented talented instructor does loads of stuff uh I recommend him really highly um right
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back onto the uh back onto the dive there we go you can see the boilers uh with some uh uh condensers in front of
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them uh there's big bigger boilers little boilers as you can see they're completely exposed in the wreck um just
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I mean whenever I see something like this I think about the amount of coal that must have been consumed the amount
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of people who were required to keep um this at these things running um just really
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even though the justice is flat something like this just gives you a scale and understanding the scale of the
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ship you probably saw there that I gave Nick the uh the thumbs up so uh our our
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dive is our bottom time is coming to an end our dive certainly isn't done we got a whole load of Deco and I'm going to
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talk a bit more about that uh in a bit but this is uh an interesting bit of the dive and I mentioned this at the
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beginning so um oh yeah only a single strobe I hadn't hadn't gone on to double strobe at this point um but this is one
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of the interesting bits about this dive is that we agreed um that we were going to do a um simulated call for gas so we
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were going to practice our emergency procedure we were going off to do all this deeper diving we're going to do this 120 130 M diving so we wanted to be
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sure that our call for gas procedure worked so what we'd done is we'd agreed with the skipper uh what would happen at
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the end of this dive so I was the last in um on the dive and therefore what I
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determined is that I would be the person who released the lazy shot if you want
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to know what a Laz shot is uh I'll put a link to my video uh in the top right hand corner as well so um you can go and
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find a bit more about it there but yeah once I uh released the lazy shot um and
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knew so therefore I knew that all the divers were on the lazy shot what we were then going to do is test the uh the
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core for gas procedure we had uh three cylinders on the boat we had a cylinder
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that could be breathed at 50 m we had a cylinder I think we had two cylinders that could be breathed at 20 M so they
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were 50% mixes we had a cylinder that could be breathed at uh 9 M which was an
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80% nitrox mixture and we had a cylinder that could be breathed at 6 M which was
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100% oxygen so those five cylinders were all on we're all on a line so I was
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going to get back to the lazy shot and you're going to see me do this in a minute once once I'd released the lazy shot I was going to deploy my delayed
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SMB and then uh the signal for deploying all that gas would be for me to put up a
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uh another yellow dsnb alongside my orange dsnb and that was a signal to the
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boat that they could uh they could put the gas in so uh you're going to see all of that happen in a bit in fact you can
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just see I'm just coming up to the lazy shot now I'm not quite the last D well Nick and myself are not quite the last
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pair of divers off the uh off the wreck in front of me there is is another diver that is uh that's James he also features
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in quite a lot of my uh lot of my videos if you haven't seen my bailout one he's one of the jameses that appears in there
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you can see he's diving an xccr and he he does like to wear that orange uh that
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orange Hood which uh which does stand out really well and and makes him really distinctive so Nick off to my left hand
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side James in front of me James is taking his tag and when I come up to up here you'll see there's only two tags
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left on the lazy shot uh Nick is going to take off his and then I'm going to take off mine so we know there are no
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more divers left on the wreck and that means that we can carry out the uh call for gas procedure um knowing that if
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anybody actually needs it for real then uh we've got the gas cuz I'm going to attach it to the lazy shot and you'll
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see me you'll see me do that in a minute when it comes in so uh lazy shot has been released there and we're now
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drifting in the currents uh before I do the call for gas procedure the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to uh
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crank up my uh P2 of oxygen so you can actually see me doing this don't often
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get to see me doing this on many of my videos but you can see there I'm changing the uh the high set point to
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1.5 bar po2 which will accelerate my My Deco later on in the uh in the video I'm
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going to put my Deco profile uh onto the video so you'll see the benefit of this of me doing this it does accelerate My
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Deco takes about 10 minutes uh 10 minutes off and you can see so I've changed it on my uh the computer on my
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left hand screen uh left hand wrist rather which is the controller for the uh the rebreather I've just done it
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there on my right hand computer which is my sheer water which is which is not linked to my rebreather so I have to
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tell the sheer water what uh P2 I'm breathing and it calculates My Deco uh
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using that so uh I've sorted all those things out I've accelerated My Deco so
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the next item on the agenda very shortly is going to be to uh is going to be to
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deploy my delayed SB I'm going to be the only diver who does this I'm going to put up that delayed SB and I'm going to
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then put the yellow call for gas now we have pre-brief pre-brief this with the skipper he knows that this procedure is
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going to happen he knows why we're doing it so um he is he is prepared it's not
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something we're doing on the Fly it's all agreed and planned and uh in order
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that we can practice the procedure so that if later on in the uh in the trip we need to do it for real everybody has
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seen it done the Skippers had a go at doing it we'd provided the uh all the cylinders we' provided the Rope uh we'
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provided all that kind of stuff so the skipper has had an opportunity to do it so uh if anything goes wrong on this
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practice it doesn't matter and the reason it doesn't matter is because everybody is safe everybody is on the
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lazy shot and drifting in the currents so um it's it's it's a great thing to do at the of a deex bed like this is if you
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do have really important safety procedures you practice them so that everybody is uh is happy and everybody
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knows how it's going to work now you can see here what I'm doing is I'm filling up my delayed SMB uh I'm using the the
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auto a that's attached on my uh on my rebreather it's does function as a a
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first sorry second stage now um not all rebreathers have these it is what a feature on the inspiration uh lots of
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people don't particularly like them uh personally I'm a big fan one of the reasons I'm a big fan is you can breathe
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off it second reason I'm a big fan is cu you can do exactly what I've done there you can use it to fill uh fill things up
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like um like delayed s smbs uh obviously everybody's got their own favorite type of delayed SMB that is
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the AP diving one there it's a really big delayed SMB doesn't doesn't get missed on the surface also it's got a
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fairly significant lifting C capacity as well so uh you know you can use it as part if you ever needed to for buoyancy
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for whatever reason now the other thing I'm doing here is you've probably seen as part of my delayed S&B rig I also
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have the the yellow one attached to it um and the yellow is I just see I've
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just clipped it on the on the line there and the next item on the agenda is going to be to inflate it now I've just tried
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to uh to pull the CO2 cartridge I'm just prying to pull the CO2 cartridge and you see it doesn't work now it's going to
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take me a while to realize that I always slightly unscrew the CO2 cartridge and
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the reason I do that so is so if the toggle gets pulled accidentally then this delayed SMB won't go off but I
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guess I don't really do that um maybe as often as I should have so I've kind of I've slightly forgotten that so what I'm
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going to do now is uh is in a bit I'm just going to remember that what I need to do is screw it in a bit more and then
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when I screw it in a bit more it's all going to work fine and uh it's going to it's going to head up to the surface so
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useful lesson for me there useful reminder and it shows I think one of the reasons why you should always practice
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using all your gear you know even if it's stuff that you're only planning well definitely if it's stuff you're
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planning on using an emergency you know these kinds of things need to be second nature to you and for those of you
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who've seen my uh deep bailout video you will see I definitely don't have this problem on that dive um you know
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potentially it's because I remember it from this dive which was I guess two years before and therefore i' I'd
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practiced it so I was entirely confident I'd be okay now what you can see here is
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I'm actually letting quite a lot of line out of my um of my reel and the reason I'm letting quite a lot of line out is
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because I know the boat is going to come up alongside it at some point it's quite a big boat it's quite difficult for them
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to maneuver Laur aine and therefore what I don't want is to be start being dragged around by um by Laura deine when
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when they try and they're going to have to pull my delayed SMB up out of the water then they're going to have to clip all those other cylinders on it then
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they're going to Chuck all those cylinders in the water while they're doing that they're going to be moving up and down with the with the waves and
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what I don't want is to be being pulled up and down as that's happening so as you can see there that's the reason it looks a looks a bit of a mess on my reel
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I'm not um you know it's not normally like that so so please um you know don't
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don't think that that's been done anything other than deliberately so it's going to take a bit of a while for this
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to happen I know that the boat's going to see the uh the the yellow delayed S&B
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it's then going to maneuver in position the uh the crew on the boat is going to need to lean over the side he going to
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need to grab it they're then going to need to get all those cylinders on and then they're going to need to deploy it so realistically you're probably talking
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you know five odd minutes for that so while that's happening I'm just sitting here you can see the other divers on the
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uh on the lazy shot there's a few above me there uh that's James who's about the same sort of depth as me Nick is a bit
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above me and as you can see he's been quite attentive um I think he's obviously we're all interested to see if
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this procedure Works he's also been a good buddy he probably thinks he's still under uh under exam situation so he's
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he's he's been he's been really good so uh yeah and now it's just a case of it's
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a case of waiting so fast forward uh Now by by a couple of minutes and when
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you're doing this you can always feel that there's something happening on the surface so you can you know you can feel
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uh something going on and and I could feel this happening and now you can see that I can see the uh the gas coming
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down there's the Deep cylinder that's the 50 m cylinder so I must be you know 40 40 odd meters I guess and you can see
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there's a clip on the end of the line now what we agreed is that as soon as the gas would come down I would attach
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this to the to the lazy shot now one of the interesting things you might see is is that the lazy shots actually um it's
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actually a bit further away than it was to start with and as I'm swimming towards it you can probably see that and
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you'll see as as this goes on is that actually it's getting quite difficult for me to get to the uh get to the lazy
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shot this is just some more of the Rope coming down by the way um so the I must
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be probably 30ish meters I guess here so the uh I'm finding it difficult to swim
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to the to the lazy shot which is really odd cuz I should be traveling at the same speed as a lazy shot you know it
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wasn't very far away only what four or five meters so I should be able to swim to it but I'm not able to get there and
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and this is at this point in the dive this is really confusing me it's like how come I can't get to the lazy shot
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why is the lazy shot moving now the answer to this is um is that what's
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happened at this point is that the boat has managed to get itself um onto one of
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the uh the boys from the trapeze so above the lazy shot is a trapeze holding
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the trapeze up are two boys and the boat has managed to get one of those boys
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wrapped around one of the uh one of the propellers so the uh the boat has obviously killed the engine uh to stop
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the or killed both engines actually to stop the uh the the trapes getting any
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more wrapped around but then what's happened is the wind is now pushing the boat and because the wind is pushing the
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boat it's also pushing the L shot and it's pushing therefore the trapeze so
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what's happening now is I'm trying to to swim to catch up the lazy shot while the boat is is pulling the lazy shot away
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from me um so this is this is really awkward and and really challenging um I
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guess what I probably could have done at this point is is get my scooter out you can also see the end of the lazy shot is
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being pulled up there and what happens unfortunately I don't have all of the
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video from what happens now on because um my my power lens dies stops recording
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in in in a couple of minutes time but you can see that the entire lazy shot system is being pulled along and uh and
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as we're getting pulled on you will see divers instead of going up the lazy shot they're actually handing over hand down
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the lazy shot to stay at the right depth of the decompression so this is uh this is really concerning and obviously it's
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going to get to a point where divers are going to have to abandon the lazy shot system put up delayed SBS and uh and
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just basically do their decompression under delayed SBS now fortunately the skipper um and massive kudos to him the
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skipper understands exactly what's going on understands the importance of disentangling the The Lazy shot from or
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the the boys of the trapeze from his boat and massive credit to him what he
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actually does is uh gets in the water in his underpants and gets underneath the
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boat with a knife and cuts the boy from one side of the trape system so what
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that means is is when we get to the trapeze the trapes is uh has only got
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one boy so one end of the trapeze is fine the other end of the boy the other end of trapeze is hanging vertically
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down uh unfortunately I don't have that bit of uh that bit of video which is which is a real pity um because it's
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it's it's a really fascinating thing to see but it was also massively confusing it wasn't until we got on the the
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surface and uh were able to chat to the skipper that realized what what was going on but you can see here that I've
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uh the the bottom of the lazy shot which is which started off maybe 10 or 15 Metter below me has now come up to the
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same uh the same depth as me and it's now uh moving away from me again pulling all those cylinders and stuff so it was
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a really um really odd experience to have but I mean the good thing with it
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of course is that this is happening um nobody needs the gas uh nobody's in
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trouble um it's all just a bit confusing you see there I've I've come up to one of the other divers and we're all uh
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we're all just really confused about what's going on this isn't a scenario that you ever that you ever get taught
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this isn't a scenario that um I've ever heard of happening before so um it was
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one that we were all just kind of trying to deal with on on the hoof and you know that is diving that's any kind of
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adventurous Pursuit you need to uh you need to be able to cope with the unexpected now I'm I'm fine obviously
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I've got my delayed SB up already you can see another diver there he's actually got off the uh the lazy shot
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system already and people were uh starting to deploy delayed smbs and one
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of the important things in this kind of situation is if the group is going to be split and people are going to start
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deploying delayed SBS what you really need to happen is everybody to deploy their delayed SMB at the same time
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because what that will do is keep everybody in roughly the same place if everyone's deployed it at the same time
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then they're going to drift at the same rate they're all going to end up in uh in a similar position so uh
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unfortunately this is the moment at which my uh my parall lens dies so you
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won't be able to see what happens at the end uh the good news though is that everybody survives everybody gets out
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the water everybody gets recovered onto the boat we all have a a good uh a good
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chat about it and uh it's a good it's a really good thing to talk about and uh
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obviously really good uh learning point for the skipper who'd uh who'd never actually done one of these for real and
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I think um I'm sure if he ever had to do it again he would have taken away some important uh learning points from this
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so I promised you my uh My Deco profile and here it is uh this is another
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download from uh from the sheerwater cloud desktop absolutely brilliant if you want to review your Dives afterwards
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so you can see it took me about 6 minutes to get down you can then see me uh going along various up and down bits
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you can see towards the end of the dive obviously I get shallower this is me on top of the boiler as an engine and you
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can see I uh I leave bottom there about 32 33 minutes and head up pretty swiftly
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until I get to the point where I changed my po2 and you can see that saves me about 10 minutes of TTS goes from about
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94 to 83 I then get up to my first Deco stop at 30 odd M and you can see there
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the rest of the dive uh now what it doesn't really show of course is that that uh that excitement of being dragged
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along through the Water by the uh the The Lazy shot being pulled by the boat but what it does show is that I I safely
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get out of the water with all my Deco stops finished at uh 2 and 1 half hours runtime and of course the most important
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part of this is everybody uh got to the surface okay everybody got back on the boat okay and uh we just had a a great
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story to tell so I hope you've all enjoyed another one of my videos as always
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one thank you
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