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We dived to 106 metres on a undived shipwreck using a Closed Circuit Rebreather (CCR) and found the ship's bell. This incredible artefact allowed us to identify the wreck as the SS Boduognat, a Belgian steamship sunk in July 1915 by the famous German skipper Walter Forstmann.
Follow the dive on this incredible wreck which also features a blue shark, sunfish and some sad news about my friend Will
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*Highlight*
00:00 Introduction
01:20 Blue Shark!!!!
06:00 Lazy Shot
09:36 Arriving at the bottom
14:28 Engine
18:00 Stern
23:45 Leaving bottom
28:50 Lazy shot
30:39 Arriving at surface
33:17 Will's BELL!
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0:00
There aren't many better feelings for a deep wreck diver than locating the ship's bell on an unknown virgin
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shipwreck, bringing it up to surface and finding that you've managed to identify
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it. This bell came from 106 m below the surface on a wreck 40 mi off the coast
0:19
of New Cornwall. It allowed us to identify the wreck as a Belgium steam
0:24
ship sunk during the First World War. So, another underwater mystery has been solved. It was an awesome dive.
0:32
Obviously, a brilliant result, although one that's tinged with sadness. This is another video of deep wreck exploration
0:40
that's pretty much on the limit of what is achievable within uh normal resources. I think you'll enjoy it.
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Certainly hope you will. As always, give us a like, leave us a comment, subscribe, and if you want to, joining
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the channel would be awesome. But pin your ears back, listen in. I think
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you're going to enjoy the story of a wreck. I've got no idea how to pronounce, but
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I'm going to call it the SS Bodnat. Apologies to anybody uh from Belgium and
1:12
uh I've probably murdered your language, so sorry about that. As an added bonus,
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we also uh had a sunfish just before we got in and something I've never seen
1:23
before, which is a blue shark on deco stops. I only uh foolishly I turned my
1:29
camera off, so I only get a tiny glimpse of it, but hey, I saw it for real, even though I haven't got the video evidence
1:35
or haven't got very much video evidence to prove it. Right, on with the dive
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then. And you can see here, like so many of my dives, it starts off on uh on
1:45
Seikka. You can see uh it's a bit gray. Uh it's a bit of a lump to the sea. Liz,
1:52
she's the crew there. You can see she's absolutely nails despite the it being pretty cold. She's uh well, she's not
1:58
really dressed for it, but there you go. She's helping me on with my uh my scooter. And uh I'm heading to the
2:03
water. The on this dive, we were the the second pair in. The first pair down was
2:09
uh was Will and uh his buddy. They've uh they've sent up the pellet. So, we know the the shot is on the wreck and
2:16
therefore I'm I'm heading in. We know absolutely nothing about this shipwreck
2:22
other than the stuff that's on the UK hydrographic office website. So, we know the length, we know the breadth, we know
2:28
how much it stands up. And that pretty much is it. So, it's it's really
2:33
exciting to do this kind of diving. you know, you you've got no idea what what's going to be uh what's going to be down
2:39
there. All you can do, and because it's so deep, you know, basically, you have to
2:45
get down and try and find out as much as you can about the wreck as quickly as possible because the thing that we're
2:51
all trying to do on these dives is is identify it. And, you know, by
2:56
identifying it, we we solve a mystery. And and that's obviously great if we if
3:02
we do it. And clearly on this dive, we do. You've probably seen my buddy there. That's the uh the famous Lee Bishop. Um
3:09
he's he's taking the lazy in. Lee has done I'm probably more first dives on
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Rex than anybody else in the world. He's been doing this for 30 odd years. Um
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he's got an incredible incredible track record. So it's a real privilege uh to dive with him. This dive took place as
3:29
part of a a dark star expedition to Newan in um sort of late June, early
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July uh 2025 and Lee and myself did all five seven dives on that trip together.
3:42
So it was uh it was it was really nice actually and we kind of we got into a bit of a routine. Um, even though he
3:49
doesn't have a scooter and I do, I would kind of dives like this when we were putting the lazy shot in, I would I
3:56
would wait for him at the lazy shot and, you know, make sure it was all sorted and then once it was sorted um I would
4:02
head down to the bottom as quickly as I possibly could because clearly um that's one of the the absolute benefits of
4:08
having a scooter is that you can you can motor down. So there's there's Lee in front of me and you can see he's got
4:14
that lovely um frame that he's uh he's kind of made up there. He's uh it's it's
4:20
one by Kent Tooling and what he's done is he's he's put all those stickers on it. You can see there's there's an AP
4:25
one on there and a few others. And the thing I really like about it is is it is
4:31
super super bright. Um, I love I love high visibility stuff when you're underwater, particularly this kind of
4:37
diving where you know it's going to be pitch black when you get to the bottom. Having people with stuff that that
4:43
stands out is is really handy and really useful. That's one of the reasons that I love my yellow diving gloves. I think
4:50
they're really important in terms of uh, you know, making it easy for other divers to see what you're doing. It's
4:55
also why my own box on my own rebreather is yellow as well. So once again, high visibility. Now, something people often
5:02
ask about my videos is P2 management. So, if you see in the uh the screen on the left hand side and you watch the the
5:08
bottom right hand bit, the green bit, you'll see it's 7 P2 at the moment. And any moment now, it is going to change to
5:16
1.3. And that is on my sheer water, which is an offboard computer. So, it's
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not linked to my rebreather in any way, but it is set up to work in exactly the the same way as my my rebreather. So, my
5:30
rebreather does exactly the same. It stays the P2 stays on the descent at 7
5:36
until I get to 30 m and then automatically steps up to 1.3. So, at
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this moment in the dive, my my solenoid is actually firing. Um, but also of
5:46
course the um as I'm increasing the pressure, the P2 is going to naturally be rising anyway. So that that seems to
5:55
work out. It's uh it works quite well for me. Now you can see Lee here has uh has got down to about uh 40 m. He's
6:02
putting in the uh the lazy shot there. He's he's got that big old proic um loop
6:07
there. He's putting the pros around the the shot line and then any moment now he's going to um attach the the lazy to
6:14
it. What you can probably also see is in my left hand, I've grabbed the lazy and I've grabbed the shot line. So, I'm kind
6:21
of taking a bit of the tension and that's just to help Lee. Um, you what you don't want to be doing is trying to
6:27
put a lazy shot on when there's any sort of current or any tension. It just makes it a lot more difficult. But you can see
6:32
there it's it's falling down nice and easily for him. He's able to get the snap shackle on. And then what you'll
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also be able to do is pull that proic a bit further down the line as well. So, ideally, you want to get the lazy down
6:44
as as far as you possibly can. That just helps when it comes to uh to deco and
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and everything else. So, uh there we go. It's all sorted. And in fact, I think I'm going to push it down a little bit
6:54
for him. In fact, no, there he is. Sorry. My bad. Apologies, Lee. Lee's pulling it down there. He's far more
7:00
experienced at doing this than I am. He's done it loads and loads of times, but he's got it he's got it all all set up there. Our tags were on it already
7:07
before we got in in the water. So if you if you put the lazy shot in, our SOP is that you put the tags on as well. And
7:14
you can see it's starting to get dark. So 45 m. Still got another 50 odd meters to go, but I'm putting on my video
7:20
lights. And this is the point at which uh Lee and me park company. So I'm going to I'm going to be scootering down. I
7:28
guess one of the other things that that people might be interested in is my suggestion that this dive was tinged with sadness. And uh I obviously showed
7:35
a picture of of Will there with uh an oxygen mask on. And one of the really sad things about this dive, and it is
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immensely sad, is it's actually turned out to be Will's last uh deep dive.
7:48
Really sadly, he he got bent a couple of years ago. Um had a problem with his with his left leg, probably a spinal
7:54
bend, and he got treated for it. And at the time, the uh the recommendation was that he needed to be very careful about
8:01
what he did. He obviously got it all fixed, got his diving medical back again
8:06
and uh resumed diving. Did quite a few deep dives without any problems, but
8:12
unfortunately um probably about 7 or 8 hours after surfacing from this dive, he
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started to get to get symptoms again. uh put himself on oxygen and got himself to
8:23
the recompression chamber in Plymouth where he had quite a lot of treatments
8:28
actually um over several days and the kind of end result of all of that was
8:34
that the the medical advice to him was that he needed to stop deep diving and in fact they've kind of limited him to
8:42
30 m and no deco for the rest of his life. So that's uh pretty rubbish news
8:48
uh for Will. Although credit to him, he's taken it in really really good spirits and you know he's he's going to
8:55
do a whole load of other stuff instead. I think he's going to do a lot more instructing and instructor training and and he's going to go and do some shallow
9:01
projects. So um but it's really sad for the rest of us because he's a great person to have on the boat. He's a
9:08
fantastic diver and he's he's one of my best mates. though. Um it sadly won't be
9:13
around on these dives anymore. But getting back to the dive, you can see I
9:18
kind of turned on my strobes before we got to the uh the bottom. You see I have arrived at the bottom of the wreck and
9:25
it's pitch black. I mean it's absolutely totally utterly dark. But um hey that's
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what we expect. You can see there I using my strobes and the John line uh clip which I have to say I absolutely
9:41
love. And there's a there's a diver in fact that is uh that is um I think this
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probably will. But here I am arrived at the bottom of the wreck and having a look around and uh there's the shot off
9:53
to the right hand side. First item as always is to try and orientate myself.
9:59
You probably saw round about the point that I was looking at will there was that the boilers. I sort of saw the
10:05
boilers there and clearly there's no engine here. In fact, this looks like the uh the part of a hold. So, so the
10:12
the wreck is really flat. The holders has collapsed down, but I've obviously got the boilers. I've got the forward
10:18
hold. So, what I'm doing now is I'm moving towards towards the bow and um
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obviously the reason I'm doing that is cuz I know the uh this is where the bell is. And when I get here, you can see
10:29
I've just swam into a big cloud of stuff. There's a bit of old, really old
10:35
netting there. There's a load of other rope. And you can see uh actually the bow stands up uh quite nicely here. More
10:41
netting, more bits and pieces. But the reason the viz is all gone here. And um
10:48
I kind of realized this at the time is because somebody's been in here feriting around and pulled something out. And the
10:55
chances are that the thing that they've ferited and pulled out is the um is is is the bell cuz that's that's what you'd
11:01
expect to get here. probably also saw that there's some chains and the uh the horseres from the from the anchor. So
11:09
the the bow is actually standing up reasonably reasonably well. You know, certainly in comparison to the rest of the wreck. You can see here I'm at 100
11:15
m. So I've come up like five five or six mters off the seabed. Um I'm kind of turning around using the um using the
11:23
lights on the scooter to illuminate the wreck and you can see there's there's the bow. So I'm on the port side. You
11:28
can see all the netting and everything draped off there. So there's there's a ton of uh ton of netting and really
11:34
common to get kind of netting. In fact, there you go. That is a uh one of the uh one of the anchors. That'll be the port
11:40
anchor. And um you know, you can see that's the very front of the bow. I'm
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just going past there the and and there looking up the other side. That's where you'd expect the other anchor to be. Um
11:51
don't know where it is. Um it's not on the seabed. So maybe it's fallen backwards, fallen in fallen inside the
11:58
wreck. But the wreck itself, you can see there it's actually covered in all sorts of interesting colorful uh marine life
12:04
and nets. That's that's the main stuff around here. Looking on the seabed just to see if the bells there, but but I'm
12:11
I'm frankly I'm wasting my time. Will has found a bell. He's already snaffled it. And uh you can see there all that
12:18
that mess there. All that that viz has been kicked up. That's where the bell was. That's where Will found it
12:24
somewhere down there. And uh yeah, you've seen it. He get he takes it up to
12:29
the surface and uh you saw how pleased he was with himself and fair play to Will he's got a stunning track record of
12:36
finding bells. Uh what you can probably see here on the video though is I'm just having a quick look down here for
12:42
anything but you can see there that is the anchor that I've just had my torch on buried under a load of netting. I
12:47
think it's uh it's probably a spare anchor rather than the the anchor that was expecting to see on the starboard
12:53
side which which wasn't there. You can see there's a there's a sort of entrance to a hole off to the left and I'm now
12:59
moving down the wreck. Um I'm moving towards a stern but I'm on the the port side of it. And the reason for that is
13:06
if you have a look at my I've been under water about 10 minutes or I haven't even been you know at the bottom for probably
13:12
only four or five of those. I've already got myself for nearly an hour of uh of decompression. So TTS there's 54
13:20
minutes. And that obviously is a challenge with this kind of diving is this is a relatively big wreck. It's
13:26
kind of like 80 meters long and in order to see it all and to get round it within that time is is a real challenge. So you
13:34
you simply have to kind of prioritize what you're doing. And for me I quite like to have a look around the whole the
13:40
whole wreck. You see here though I've got back to uh to the boilers there. So two boilers probably indicates the wreck
13:47
is you know thousand more than thousand tons. Normally you'd say 1,000 tons as a single boiler. So it's uh you know it's
13:55
a a mediumsized a mediumsiz ship. This I I guess not a small one. Not a really
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big one but two boilers. You know you can already tell get a feel for this. This is obviously iron steam ship. It's
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um probably World War I. There isn't loads of cables and wires and stuff on here. The other thing is, you know,
14:17
there's no sign of of anything very much brass. So, that would probably also indicate that it's a it's a cheap a
14:25
cheap ship as well. And when we find out about the wreck, whose name I'm going to mangle again, the Bugeno or or whatever
14:32
it is, um we find out that it was a cheap ship and it was uh when it was
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sunk, it was actually carrying pit props. So pit props, you know, wooden pit props, the sort of thing that would
14:43
go in a coal mine to stop the um uh stop the mine falling on people as they as
14:50
they dug out of the coal. And and that isn't the sort of job that you would give to a very valuable or expensive
14:55
ship. Oh, somebody's uh given me a call over there. And in fact, I think it's Lee. He's uh he's found something in the
15:01
wreck. H Yeah, there we go. He's asked me to have a video of it, and he's putting his torch on it. So that's uh
15:07
that's really nice. That is the um engine telegraph. So the
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basically telegraph for those of you who don't know is used by the the bridge to tell the
15:22
uh engine but room how quickly they need to go and and they would obviously put more coal in the boilers. They would u
15:29
change things on on the engine to to make it go faster or slower depending on what they wanted. And so there was a uh
15:38
there was telegraph in the bridge and then there was a uh indicator telegraph in the in the engine room and when the
15:44
engine room you know received the order they would um do all the stuff that they needed to do and they would they would
15:51
adjust a lever at their end so that the bridge knew that the message had been received and um you know was was being
15:58
acted on. So that's that's what Lee just showed me there. Um it's um made of iron
16:04
mainly. There's a little bit of brass. So the outside is made of brass, but the majority of that is is iron. So it's
16:11
another indication that the chip the ship is really cheap. And you know if for instance you were to bring that up
16:17
to the surface, it would because it's made of iron and the iron will have rusted and corroded um for 100 odd
16:23
years, it would just fall apart into a pile of black a black stuff. So that's why nobody is um nobody thinking about
16:31
bringing it up. also really really heavy for me. I've spotted a bit of brass plate down there. And uh for those of
16:37
you who see my other some of my other videos will know that I uh I've had quite a bit of success in recent years
16:42
finding makaker plates and stuff. So I've just scratched that and confirmed it's brass, but it's also a bit thin.
16:49
It's also quite stuck. So um I think that isn't a maker's plate. What that is
16:54
is they often kept bits of sheet brass in and around, you know, there's there was in around the engine room where
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there's there's, you know, there's places they can work on stuff, they can make things. So, I think that was just a spare bit of brass. Uh, and you quite
17:07
often see those on shipwrecks. So, um, I don't spend too much effort, time, and effort trying to get that out, not least
17:14
cuz it's 100 100 odd meters deep as well. So, um, if it doesn't come out easily, it's it's not coming out. So,
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this is the, uh, prop shaft. You can see here the drive shaft and you can see it's stood up on its uh bearings and
17:27
everything. And so this is going to take me towards the stern. And there's the
17:32
the prop tunnel. So that would have protected the prop from all the other uh cargo and stuff that was in the in the
17:38
in the hold and a man would be able to walk down there. They'd also be able to lubricate bearings and um you know
17:45
there's there's like couplings and stuff and presumably they'll be able to do other maintenance tasks and stuff on them. So, so not not super unusual to
17:53
see a tunnel, but you don't you don't always see it. So, uh and this has brought me you can see here it's the the
17:59
wreck is starting to rise up again. And this is the stern. Um and this here, as
18:04
you can see, is the other end of the prop shaft. And on there would be would have been the blades. There are no
18:09
blades there. So, um I don't know what's happened to the blades. Maybe they were
18:15
destroyed somehow when the when the wreck hit the seabed. Maybe it was still turning and they broke off on the seabed. So maybe that's where a torpedo
18:23
or something hit. Maybe they've just corroded off. I I have no idea at all, but um they're not there, that's for
18:30
certain. Uh another diver just gone past me there. And you know, just having a
18:35
quick look around, see what else. You know, sometimes you get emergency steering positions and stuff uh in the
18:40
stern. So maybe there's one of those around here. Um often you get other bits and pieces as well. So, you know, I've
18:47
had lots of crockery and stuff out of out of sterns, but this one absolutely
18:53
absolutely nothing. And it's a real pity because obviously, you know, like
18:59
everybody else, I'm wanting to identify this wreck. And you can see there my TTS
19:04
is now 100 minutes. So, that's at 1 hour 40. Uh I've been down 16 minutes. That
19:09
shows the cost of this kind of diving. you know, the decompression uh requirement for decompression is just
19:16
going through the roof. My first decompression stop, 45 m. Um, incredible. Uh, I mean, the other thing
19:22
that's really nice about this wreck, you can see there's loads and loads of uh fish life on here. A big crayfish there
19:27
as well. Um, really common uh on the deep wrecks in in the English Channel
19:33
and obviously north of Cornwall. And there is a there's a lobster. Uh, he's
19:38
like, "What on earth is happening to my wreck? It was all peaceful and dark and stuff down here. And then all of a sudden these people turn up with these
19:44
massive lights shining in my face, blinding me. Um, so that's uh there's
19:49
kind of a cargo winch off to the right hand side there, I think. So probably this wreck would have had a two um car
19:56
would have four cargo holds, two in the front, two in the back, and each one of those would have had a cargo mast and a
20:02
cargo winch. And that one, I think, is is the stern one. So I'm heading back up. Um, not having had much joy at the
20:08
stern. There wasn't a gun, which I I thought there might be cuz, you know, I'm getting World War I vibes from this
20:14
dive. So, I was expecting there to be a gun there. Um, and there wasn't. No gun, no ammunition. Uh, therefore, probably
20:21
not armed. And that potentially, uh, means it's early First World War. And
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actually, once we identified it, we could we could find out, well, we found out that it was sunk in on the 2nd of
20:32
July, 1915. Tried to escape, but but got torpedoed. And the the skipper that
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torpedoed them was uh Walter Forceman, who uh incredible incredible war. He's
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the second most successful yubot skipper of all time. Um sunk an incredible
20:50
number of ships. In just under 3 years, uh he was responsible for 150 ships
20:57
going to the bottom, over 400,000 tons of shipping. It's it's an unbelievable
21:03
amount. and and this was one of the kind of the relatively early ones. The other interesting thing about Walter Forceman
21:10
is he survived the first world war, served in the Second World War and and uh died you know as an old man in his in
21:16
the 1970s. Um, somebody else who served aboard this boat or also served aboard the U39 was a
21:24
guy called Martin Nemula who is uh very famous for his poem first they came
21:30
first they came for the socialists I wasn't a socialist you know that one um he was arrested by the Nazis during the
21:38
second world war he wasn't on the uh the U39 when they sunk this ship but he was
21:43
uh he did serve on U39 later in the water as in fact did Kal Duran
21:49
who is who ended up um being the running the the Third Reich after um after
21:57
Hitler committed suicide. I also have a slight connection with the U39 which is
22:03
that the U39 was the ship that tried to sink the steamer Anglo Californian later
22:09
become the became the Vanelia on which um Frederick Parlo won his Victoria
22:15
Cross also in 1915. And if you haven't seen my video of our attempts to uh to
22:20
find and dive that wreck, then um I'll I'll stick a link up in the top. So even
22:26
though the Buddau itself not necessarily the most interesting ship, I think it's connection with U39 and Walter Forceman
22:33
is uh is is one that is fascinating. And you know, I think that's one of the things I like a lot about the first
22:39
world war Rex is it does you do get a sense there was actually a a relatively small number of people involved in what
22:46
was going on and and therefore you get all these connections all the time. I'm sure that wasn't the case, but it does
22:52
feel feel a bit like that. So, for those of you who've been uh following the
22:57
actual dive, I've uh I've gone back past the uh the engine, past the boilers, and
23:04
uh I'm up in the the area where probably the bridge is, and and it's also close to the shot line, and you can see that
23:10
I'm just having a look around. I pulled out a bit of brass there. That might be a a foot a tread or something like that.
23:16
Um there's few other bits and pieces around here that looks like um you know, bit of crockery maybe. So, this is I
23:23
guess on this vessel that there's also some sort of pot in there as well. And and for those of you who've watched some
23:29
my other videos, you'll know that crockery can be really really useful because it's got um shipping line logos
23:35
and stuff on there. And a shipping line logo can can really really narrow down
23:41
um the search and sometimes, you know, can actually identify a wreck. You can
23:46
see here that my TTS is now up to 140. First deco stop is 51 meters. Uh I've
23:53
been, you know, my my run time is 21 minutes and clearly I've decided that it
23:58
is time is time to be going. So back to the uh back to the shot line. I've picked up my uh my strobes off it. And
24:06
you can see there there's loads of other people down here. You can see all their all their strobes on the line. And when
24:11
you're not the last person, it's always great to to have a a ton of strobes on the line like that that you can make it
24:18
really easy to find your way back. And there you go. You can see I'm I'm starting my scent. I've got
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136 minutes. So 2 hours 16 of deco to do. So I'm going to be getting out the
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water around about the 2 and 3/4 hour mark. I've used a scooter to get myself
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off the bottom. You get a bit of buoyancy into my suit and stuff and then I will uh and then I'll start, you know,
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I'll start heading up. I've also realized that the uh the the GoPro on the front was was not a particularly
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good angle for the video and I've kind of sorted that out. Although a bit of video of the line going back up is is
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not that interesting. And for those of you who wonder, I tend not to use the GoPro videos because actually that those
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video lights mean that they um mean that you get quite a lot of uh the kind of
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stuff in the water and and the the GoPros can often, you know, you just get all this kind of reflection. I think
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basically my video lights are not far enough away from them. Um, so actually the the paral lens footage that I've got
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on my helmet tends to tends to work a lot better. But anyway, there you go. You can also
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see bubbles every now and again. I'm I'm venting from my my loop. Clearly I need to to get rid of the gas in my loop,
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otherwise it's going to expand too much. Um, I also at some point during this dive, I'll have shut out shut down my um
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ADV, the automatic dilluent valve. So, you know, that's another one of my SOPs.
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So there should be no need to add dilluent as you ascend. For those who are watching, you've probably also seen
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that my TTS has come down a bit. That's because the sheer water will will calculate decompression based on its
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assumption about what you're doing. Because I'm ascending faster than the
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the predicted or the the rate of ascent they would actually like me to use. That means that the the TTS has uh has come
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down as well. I'm not on gasing for as long. You're also seeing as I come up through the water column here that the
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the color of the water and the ambient light is changing dramatically as well. I'm probably halfway to the surface now.
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So, 58 m. And you can see there that we've got ambient light and we've also
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uh you know the viz is is is pretty good as well. Although somewhere above me there is a layer of snot as well. So, um
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there's a kind of the uh the plankton bloom has left a has left a kind of dirty layer that's that's somewhere
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above me, but I'm not there at the moment. I mean, it's a beautiful clear water where there's a bit of ambient light. What I'm doing in my left hand
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there is uh I'm changing the P2 on my rebreather. And once I've done that, and
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it's I'm going to do the same thing on my offboard computer. You can see that's that's what's happening here. Now,
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that'll be mirrored on the screen. So, hopefully uh relatively soon you're going to change see the green number in
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the bottom right hand side. There you go. It's just changed from 1.3 to 1.5. And when that happened, uh I hope you
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also saw that the uh the TTS dropped from uh 126 to 107. So does show the uh
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benefit in terms of computer of uh accelerating uh decompression. So that's
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uh that's one of the reasons I do it. You know, I I don't see why you wouldn't do it, frankly, but um you know, other
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people, you know, worry about CNS and and all those kind of things, but but it's something I've done for a long time
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and and works well for me. I mean, the other thing you're probably seeing is is I'm uh I'm pretty much at my first stop
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here, 50 51 m. I'm about 52. Um and um
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in fact, you see it's just clocked up to 48 there. So, you see I'm I'm kind of I'm decoing off the uh off the shot
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line. Something else I like to do. It's uh you know, you just kind of go and chill out and uh and see what's
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happening. Looking up the rope there. You can see there's the uh the lazy shot up above me. Probably about five or six meters. So, I I'll get there in a bit.
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Right, I'm going to accelerate the time so you don't want to see me doing deco stops and and that'll bring us to the
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point at which the uh I get to the lazy. So I'll skip forward a couple of minutes and you can see they're still still
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ascending bit shallower and you probably just caught a glimpse there just above me is the uh the lazy shot. No sign of
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any other divers though. Uh I guess I was expecting Lee to be following me up but he ended up doing a bit longer on
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the bottom than I did. Um but there you go. There's the uh there's a lazy shot. You can see it's a big bundle of tags.
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Everyone else is on there. So, it's just a case of me trying to uh trying to find out where mine is. I'll take it off and
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then obviously I'm going to leave the the lazy shot in position and the last person will will take the tag off it and
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release the lazy shot. And probably, you know, one of the things that we do with with lazy shots is we
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always have the lazy at the pretty much the depth of the first deco stop. Okay, it was first deco stop on this was about
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50 m. Um so it was it was a it could have done to be a bit deeper but um you
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know what we don't like to do is is have lots of decompression on the uh on the main shot line particularly in tidal
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conditions once the tide picks up that gets that gets really difficult. So as you look down there you can see some of
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the other divers starting to come up as well. So two divers have have already gone past. So that the first pair in Will and his buddy they're already off
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the wreck. It's just uh the other guys that you can see down there. You can see started to come uh up the line and won't
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be too long till the uh the lazy shots release cuz frankly nobody's spending that much longer down not not much uh
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not that much longer down there. So you can see here you go 30 minutes into the dive. I've been down to 100 odd meters.
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I've come back up and I've now got several hours of deco to look forward to. So skip those several hours. Uh you
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can see here we're all on the trapeze deco trapze. It's nice and light and bright and viz is good. You see just
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communicating with Lee there telling him that I'm uh I'm heading up. There was another diver there next to me. That was
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that was Andy. He's uh he's on the Liberty and you can see there I'm uh I'm just heading up. And one of the things
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that's really common for people is to to not do their last decompression at 6 m.
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What people often do is is a little bit above the above the bar. So that bar is at 6 m. There's a diver on it. the other
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two divers h hanging on the um hanging on the uh the ropes there at probably
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four meters or or whatever and that that sits in quite nicely with uh a sheer
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water if you've got the last stop set for for 3 m. So it's it's a really common thing for people to do. Right.
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And there you go. You can see my deco is all complete. I'm at the surface and um
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there is the boat coming into get us. So, it's always always a nice feeling to uh to clear your deco without any
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incident. It's a really really nice feeling to see that the boat is coming over. And and the great thing about
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James and uh and Liz, who's his crew on uh on Seeker, is that they are super super attentive that you don't need to
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wave and say, "Look, can you come over and get me?" As you've seen there, they they're kind of, you know, James is a
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diver. He's he does a lot. He does deep diving as well. He understands it. And you know, he's really clued into when
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things are going to happen. So we, you know, he knows at about the kind of 2 and 1/2 hour to 3 hour mark on a dive
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like this, then he's going to be getting divers coming up to the surface. So he's there ready and waiting. I mean, he's ready and waiting at any time in case
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there's an incident. But particularly, you know, that's he knows at this moment in time that's that's when it's going to
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happen. They've already taken the shot line off the wreck. That's long gone. You can see there Andy's come up with
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me. He's just behind me. And you can see the two boys of the uh the trapze behind there. And that's me uh that's me
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getting onto the lift. And you've seen this bit already from uh from the beginning where where Will is uh is
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seeing that I'm arriving and he's come running over with his bell and you can see he's saying na na na na he's got the
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bell and he's really really pleased with himself. So uh so well done Will. I am I
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am super chuffed for him. I'm also super sad that I'm I'm probably never going to see that that site again, which is which
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is which is really sad. But but there you go. And there's Liz and uh James down there just come out the wheelhouse
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to join in the general mockery. The other the other divers are out as well, you know. Uh you can see what it's like
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on the boat. People kind of in and out of dry suits kits kits on the boat. And there you go. I've just uh I've sat down
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and I'm starting to get myself all uh sorted out. Sorting out. Turn off my uh
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my handset. James has come over. He's a good lad. He's coming over to help me get off my stages and um yeah, just kind
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of start that process of reaclimatizing yourself to gravity. There's another diver coming up the uh coming up the
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lift. That's Andy who you saw on the on the trapeze with me. Liz is Liz is sorting him out, which is uh which is
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brilliant. And he'll he'll be getting up and getting all his gear off. and then we'll we we've got the process of, you
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know, chatting about the dive and the long um and the long transit back home.
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Of course, what I've got to do though is uh is give you a few words from Will, who was, as we've already heard, super
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pleased with himself. Tell me, Will, how was your dive today? Yeah, good. Sing 106 m deep. Uh first
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one down, Jeff, myself, and um yeah, nice bit of spit. Stunning amount of
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life. Huge lobsters, huge crawl, huge crabs. Sadly, all I can find is to come back
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with The good news is that Will has suffered no long-term injuries other than the
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fact that he's no longer allowed to do uh deep diving. Well, that brings this video to an end.
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I hope you've all enjoyed it. Um, please, you know, do all the usual kind of stuff if you feel like it, but the
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thing I hope you'll do more than anything else is, uh, watch another one. Thank you.
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