We Found a MYSTERY 100 Year Old Shipwreck

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During the First World War, over 12,000
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ships from all nations were sunk around
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the British Isles. That's more than 200
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every single month. Although British
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vessels made up most of those losses,
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German, French, American, Norwegian,
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Dutch, ships from dozens of countries
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were sunk in these waters.
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World War II added thousands more.
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British Allied Axis. Over 5,000 extra
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vessels went to the seabed around our
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coast.
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But here's what most people don't
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realize.
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Large numbers of these wrecks have never
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been properly identified. Why? Well,
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incomplete wartime records, civilian
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vessels that went down without
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witnesses, collers, and merchant ships
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that simply vanished. They're all down
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there waiting to be discovered. Off the
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south coast of the UK alone, there's
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over,00
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documented World War I wrecks and many
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of those carry no name.
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Today we're diving one of them, a
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Collia, almost certainly World War I
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era, lying in 95 m of water. Conditions
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are perfect with stunning underwater
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visibility. But will we solve the
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mystery?
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What we're hoping to do is to recover an
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artifact that might finally give this
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wreck its name. A ship's bell with an
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engraved name, crockery with a company
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marking, or a builder's plate from the
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engine room. Something that can connect
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this rusting, broken hull to a specific
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vessel lost over a century ago.
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Let's find out if we do it.
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Here we are, July 2025.
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40 miles out to sea on board diver
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support vessel Seeker operated by
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Indeep. I do a load of stuff with them.
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As you can see the uh two divers about
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to get in the water there. They've got
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the lazy shot. You can see Liz just to
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the right hand side there. She's kind of
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feeding the rope out.
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What this means is that two divers have
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already gone down and are on the wreck.
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they've sent up the pill or the pellet
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to say that the shot line is is on the
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wreck. Once we get that, the next pair
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of divers go in with the lazy shot and
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make sure that's all set up for the
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decompression. And then once once
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they're in and that's looking good, the
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remaining divers on the boat get to go
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in. Clearly, today I'm part of the
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remaining divers. Now, for a variety of
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reasons, there was only six divers on
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this uh on this trip. So, myself and my
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buddy wear divers five and six. You can
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see there Liz, she's uh she's getting
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everything ready. She's going to help me
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get my uh get my scooter on. There's a
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couple of good reasons to have a
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scooter. There's the obvious one, which
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is when you're on a wreck, it's quite
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nice. It reduces the effort. You can
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kind of motor around. Also, it's got my
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GoPro on. It's got a pair of video
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lights on. That's all handy. But one of
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the main reasons I like it is because it
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allows me to get down really quickly.
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There's two reasons why that's a good
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thing. The first is that you're not
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incurring decompression when you're just
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traveling down the line. The second
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thing is that it allows you to get onto
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the wreck quickly. Now, there's a
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certain element of competition in this
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kind of diving. Everybody wants to find
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the thing that's going to help us to
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identify the wreck. And clearly, the
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people who arrive on the wreck first,
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they get an advantage because they're
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going to be there before anyone else.
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and if there's anything really obvious,
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they will find it. So that's why what we
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do is we rotate who gets to go in first.
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I'd been in first on on another dive,
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but on this one, it was my turn to be in
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last. That doesn't stop me though from
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trying to get down as quickly as
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possible. And hopefully that will
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minimize the time that people who were
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already down there will have had to find
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uh exciting underwater artifacts that
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allow it to be identified and increase
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the chance that I get there and I get
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them. And as the more astute of you have
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already seen at the beginning of this
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video, I show you me finding the bell on
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this dive. So, uh you've got that all to
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look forward to. You've just seen me
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sorting out my scooter, getting my GoPro
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turned on, and this is me. I've probably
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dropped about another 20 m. A little bit
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of a time hop there. And you can see
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there just coming up onto the lazy shot,
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which was put in by the two divers that
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we saw exiting the boat. So, the next
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thing I'm going to be doing is sticking
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my tag on the lazy shot there along with
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all the others. And then when I come up,
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obviously, I'll be releasing it. And the
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last pair up, which is probably going to
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be me and my buddy, we will release the
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lazy shot and we'll float in the current
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pretty much uh standard procedure. And
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anybody who's watched any of my other
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videos will have seen this happen any
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number of times. Now, I know people
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always like to know where I am, where
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this dive is taking place. So, here's a
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bit of a Google Earth shot. The boat has
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been moved from Plymouth to New is the
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most westerly fishing port on the south
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coast of England. And from there we've
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traveled 40 miles out to sea into an
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area where there are just loads and
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loads of undived wrecks. Question you
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might ask is how do we know they're
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undived? And the reason is because we've
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got quite a good corporate memory in our
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team and we know the other teams that
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either might have dived out of here or
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the boats that have operated out of
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here. And what we know about them means
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that we know nobody else has been onto
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this wreck. It's just too far out and
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too deep for anybody else to have done.
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So, that's always a lovely feeling when
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you're going down. And as you can see
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here, I'm just starting to see the
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strobes, which means I'm getting close
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to the bottom. And I know it's a uh an
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undived wreck. Well, apart from the four
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people in front of me. And as you can
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see there, I've got my strobes ready in
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my left hand. So, clearly time is of the
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essence. I'm going to get them onto the
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shot line as quickly as I can. You can
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also see that I've managed to catch up
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the two divers who put the lazy shot on.
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One of them's just to the left by the
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strobes and the other one is on the
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bottom there. So, I'm particularly
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pleased about that. It means that only
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the first two divers on the wreck have
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been there in front of me. And
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effectively, it's now uh I'm competing
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on even terms with divers number three
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and four. I'm particularly swift with
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getting my strobes on today.
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particularly smooth. So, that's good.
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What I've also realized is that the bow
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is where that diver is heading in front
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of me on the left hand side. I've got
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the scooter, so I'm going to beat him
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there. And as you can see, conditions
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down here are absolutely wonderful. It's
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always difficult to put a number on a uh
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on visibility, but this had to be at
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least 20 m. And it's one of the great
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things about diving in the middle of the
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English Channel is is that what that's
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what you get. Well, that's what you get
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sometimes. It's certainly what we've got
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today, which is brilliant. And as you
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can see here, I'm actually having a look
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off the side of the wreck. I know any
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number of people who found bells off off
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the side. I'm basically at the bow now.
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We knew before we went down that this
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wreck was about 100 m long. That was the
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information on the UK hydrographic
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survey. As soon as I've got down, I've
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seen that it's full of coal. So, that's
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kind of managed my expectations for this
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dive. I know that other people will have
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been to the bow. Uh the first two pair
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of divers or the first pair of divers
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rather will have been to the bow. So,
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therefore, I'm kind of if it was lying
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right in the middle of the bow, I'm
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pretty certain they would have found it.
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That's why I'm going straight to have a
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look over the edge. The thing with a
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with a dive of this depth obviously is
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that your time is really limited. You
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can see I've only just got to the
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bottom. I'm already up to 26 minutes
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time to surface. So that's the TTS
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number down in the bottom right of my
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computer that you can see the overlay on
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the left hand side. Thanks Eric for
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doing that. What else can we see on this
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wreck? Well, the looks as though there
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might have been an anchor off to the
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left hand side, but I'm ignoring that.
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Not really interested in anchors. What
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I'm hoping is that I'll be able to find
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something that will crack the identity.
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As you can see there, what I found is a
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bit of broken plate. Now, I don't know
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why I I I don't bring that up. I should
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do it. Should. It's one of the lessons I
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think I thought I'd learn ever since
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they identified the nons, but clearly I
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uh I didn't learn it. There might have
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been something on that. I actually find
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some plates later on and I look at all
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of them and there's nothing on them. So,
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Crocker is not going to help us identify
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this wreck. You can see that other diver
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who I got down with. He's in the bow as
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well in front of us there. That looks
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like a winch, the thing that's covered
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in nets. So, that would have no doubt
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been for lifting up the anchor.
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So, having a good look around here. I
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haven't seen anything off the side on
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the seabed. So, I'm just having a look
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in the middle. You know, perhaps the
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divers in front of me missed something.
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Um,
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as you're going to see, they didn't miss
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anything here. What they missed was
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later on, and you're going to have to
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hang on in there for for that moment to
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happen. But first of all, as you can
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see, we're looking through the wreck.
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Now, one of the things about collers is
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they tend to stay quite intact. There's
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some bad things about collers, which is
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the fact that they're normally really
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cheap, cheaply built ships. Nobody's
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spending any money on on a Collier. Oh,
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there you go. There you can see the big
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old anchor there just lying in the
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middle of the of the ship. So, it can't
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have been hanging off the side of it.
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Perhaps that was a spare one.
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So, collers. really cheaply built ships.
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But the good thing about them is that
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they stay intact. So the holes are full
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of coal and that protects the shape of
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the wreck. Now this is interesting. You
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could probably just see on the left hand
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side there. I spotted something. And I'm
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scratching it with my uh with my torch
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there to see what it's made out of. And
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that kind of looked a bit bell-shaped to
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me. Um I don't think it is the bell. I
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asked other people about it when we got
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up and everybody agreed that that they
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didn't think it was the bell either.
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Sometimes bells were made of iron on
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really cheap ships. Everyone thinks
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bells are made of brass. They've got
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their name on. That's not always the
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case. Uh the Germans in particular often
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had lots of iron bells. So I'm
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scratching this one and it's clearly
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made of iron. So there's no point
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bringing it up because this is obviously
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an old ship and will have been down for
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a long period of time and therefore
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anything iron like that the the sea
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water will have got in and corroded it
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and if you were to bring it up it would
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have just uh fallen to bits. So that's
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not anything particularly interesting.
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And I guess if there was anything really
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obvious and really interesting, the
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first pair of divers who've been down on
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this wreck for a good, I don't know,
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seven minutes or so before me, if it was
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really obvious, they would probably have
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found it. So, you know what I'm doing
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here is I'm just having a good look
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underneath play, underneath things,
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hoping that somewhere down here there is
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something a little less obvious that
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they've missed that I'm going to find. I
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mean, there's that bell again. You know,
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I'm just having a quick look at it. You
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can see I'm calling it a bell. Not sure
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it is a bell. Just seen the anchor again
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there. So you can see right still up the
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bow. But I think I've decided that I've
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had enough of looking around the bow and
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therefore I'm going to move off. You can
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see there off to my right hand side.
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That is actually the port side of the
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wreck. And as I mentioned, it's standing
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up pretty well. It's and that's because
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the whole wreck is is has been you know
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as I've mentioned already been supported
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by all this coal which just keeps
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collars intact for far longer than
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pretty much all other wrecks. It does
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mean the downside is that you get really
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excited before you go down because you
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see them on the um you see them on the
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sander they look really good and you get
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down there and it's like oh yes collia
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full of full of coal. You probably just
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seen there's a diver just gone past me
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on the left. There's a kind of some sort
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of deck winch off to my right hand side.
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Once again, having a a good look around
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in here. And interesting enough, the
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bell when I find it is just to the right
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of where I am now. You can see there
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that there's a load of divers in and
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around this area. Remember that yellow
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rope? You can just see it off to my
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right hand side. Probably some sort of
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discarded fishing gear or whatever, but
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that's that's where the bell is. So,
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there's a whole load of divers have been
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down here. It's really close to the
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shop. There's a load. This is the bridge
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area where you'd expect to find the the
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bridge bell. You can see there there's a
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load of port holes. There's various
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other bits and pieces. Um there's a kind
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of iron helm. There's an iron binnacle.
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You know, that's what the other divers
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are currently having a look at. But, you
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know, so there's, you know, this is
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where the majority of divers spend the
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majority of the time and none of them
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find the belt. And I have to say when
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stuff like that happens, it makes you
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feel really good. Makes me feel really
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good. Anyway, just off to my left hand
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side there, that big thing that was
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standing up tall was a donkey boiler.
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The the main boiler was off to the left
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hand side as well. So there's there's
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all that rope. You can see divers all
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over the place. And just as we're
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looking at it now, the the bell is just
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to the left hand side. I'm having a
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quick look off to uh off to the right
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onto the seabed. Um, and I'll come back
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and look there later on because there
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actually various bits of crockery and
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stuff off there. But now you see I'm I'm
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still heading on the port side heading
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towards the stern. You can see it's
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collapsed quite a lot here. And and
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that's I would say probably because
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there isn't the this is the middle of
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the ship. This is where the engine is.
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This is where the boiler is. What that
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means is it doesn't have the protection
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that the coal gives it. Now there's the
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engine up in front of me. It's a an old
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two-cylinder
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compound engine. And that's another good
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indication that this ship is quite old,
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World War I era, possibly before, but I
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mean, chances are this was something
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sunk during uh the First World War. But,
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you know, we don't know for that for
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certain until we actually manage to
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identify it. You can see here, this is
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the start of the prop shaft. There it
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is. You can see it's actually quite a
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thin prop shaft in that prop tunnel. So,
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once again, that shows that it's a an
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old ship because the prop shaft isn't
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big and thick. The reason it's not big
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and thick is cuz it's fairly low power.
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Oh, there's a spare prop there. You can
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see that's uh that's clearly iron. You
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see it's all fuzzy and furry around the
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edges. So, you know, instantly you can
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tell that's iron and therefore of no
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value. It would have been corroded away.
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And here we are. We're at the at the
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stern. You can see there's some bolards
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that have collapsed down there. The
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stern stands, you know, reasonably
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upright. It's still intact. It hasn't
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quite collapsed yet. Once again, a few
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more bolards down to the side there. And
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this is the port side. I'm just going to
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go off the back. I'm going to have a
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look at the prop. I don't know why I'm
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always I always like having a good look
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at a prop, but you can see there there's
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loads of stuff hanging off this wreck.
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Loads of rope, loads of nets.
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Interesting enough, I'm the only diver
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who comes to the prop. You can see
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there's the rudder uh off to the port
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side there. I'm going to go around the
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other side and have a look at the the
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prop in a minute, but you know,
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potentially that would give some sort of
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clue to the sinking. Um although the the
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prop could have just you know collapsed
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and ended up in that when it hit the
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seabed. There's a prop old fourbladed uh
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prop. We've we've already seen the spare
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one. Um and there you can see the stern
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still standing up right there. So this
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actually wreck is is you know pretty
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intact by the standards of of something
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that's been underwater for 100 odd years
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and probably suffered quite a traumatic
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event during the sinking. So you would
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imagine it was either torpedoed or uh
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shelled by gunfire or the other thing
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the Germans did if it was if it was a
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World War I casualty is they came aboard
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and put charges in the in the bottom of
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the ship once they they allowed all the
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crew to get off. So whatever it was, you
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know, pretty traumatic. Anyway, this is
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me going up. You see there's another
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port hole under there. So
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if you want a port hole, these aren't
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particularly great ones are all iron
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backed. So the front of it would be
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brass. The back of it would be iron,
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which means they're not particularly
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lovely if you were to bring them up.
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There's the steering quadrant.
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So that's obviously, you know, you can
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see that's collapsed and that may
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explain why the rudders the angle that
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it is. So you can see I've come up here.
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I'm I'm on the uh on the top of the
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stern having a good look around. I'm I'm
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not really sure why. I mean, most people
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don't bother going to the stern unless,
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you know, the the rest of the wreck's
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not very interesting. Um, I always quite
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like to do it because I like to get the
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whole wreck in. I like to make sure that
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I've seen everything. You know, I will
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never go back to this wreck again. Um,
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but at least I can say that I've seen it
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all. There's there's the prop shaft.
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Starboard side of the wreck is off to my
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right hand side. You can see there's no
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coal really in this part of the wreck.
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Or if there has, it's uh it's spilled
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out onto the seat belted off to the
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side, you know, where it's collapsed.
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Perhaps this explains how it was sunk.
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Maybe it hit the torpedo hit in the in
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the back of the wreck and and the coal
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or the cargo or whatever fell out on the
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way down. Maybe it wasn't carrying coal
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in the stern. You know, who knows?
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What I'm doing now, though, is, you
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know, I I went to the stern down the
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port side. I'm coming back to the uh to
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the engine area up on the uh starboard
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side. And you can see there's the engine
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just coming up in front of me there. As
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I say, two-cylinder engine, older older
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style of engine. And you can see I'm
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doing a bit of videoing it there with
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the GoPro. Meanwhile, I'm uh you know,
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having a look, you know, perhaps perhaps
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there's a maker's plate in here.
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Obviously, other divers have been here.
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You can probably see in front of me
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there is a uh the engine telegraph,
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which has been which is another steel
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item. So, once again, good indication
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that this was really cheaply made. So,
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some one of the other divers has found
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the the telegraph has pulled it out.
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It's it's fallen apart and they've
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they've left it there. So once again,
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that's not going to provide any clues.
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There we go. There's the the donkey
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boiler, the vertical one. And to the
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left of it is the is a standard kind of
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scotch boiler round. So this ship had a
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single smallalish boiler really and a
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that steam engine that that we've
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already seen, the two-cylinder one. So
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those are really along with the the
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dimensions the only clue and the fact
18:34
that it's carrying coal and the fact
18:36
that it's quite old. Those are the only
18:37
clues that we've got. Unfortunately,
18:39
they're not the kind of clues that are
18:40
going to allow you to identify it
18:42
because there are, you know, hundreds,
18:45
possibly thousands of wrecks of, you
18:47
know, matching this kind of description
18:48
that was sunk in this kind of era. So,
18:52
what we need is something more solid
18:54
than that. And that's, you know, where
18:55
you come into the major ticket items.
18:58
You want a bell with the name. You want
19:00
a maker's plate. You want something like
19:02
crockery, which can also be really
19:04
helpful. Anything like that would be
19:06
good.
19:06
But as you can see here, I've just come
19:09
back onto the uh the wreck again. This
19:11
is the bridge area again. You can see uh
19:13
all those port holes, all those other
19:16
bits and pieces around here. So, this is
19:19
the area that everybody has been
19:20
scouring. Everyone is looking for the
19:22
clue. There's the vertical donkey
19:24
boiler. There's somebody else. There's a
19:26
yellow rope. We're going to see more of
19:27
that in a moment, but most of the other
19:31
divers by this point have uh left the
19:33
wreck or certainly are about to leave
19:35
the wreck. And the reason is, you can
19:37
probably see from my dive computer
19:39
there, I've been down 16 minutes. My TTS
19:43
there is up to 100 minutes. So, it's
19:45
going to be two hours very, very
19:46
shortly. So, my time on the wreck is
19:50
ebbing fast. And that's the reality of
19:52
these kind of things. When you're diving
19:54
at this depth, you just have to try and
19:56
maximize your time as much as you can.
19:59
Try and achieve whatever you can. And
20:00
that's what I've done. You see, I've
20:02
been all over the wreck. I've been to
20:03
the bow. I've been to the stern. Uh,
20:06
somebody has found something there. I
20:07
think possibly a plate or a bit of uh,
20:11
in fact, I think it's a window. It's a
20:12
port hole window. So, you know, this
20:16
area here, this is where almost
20:18
certainly the the clue is going to be.
20:20
You in and around the bridge area.
20:21
There's got to be something. And what
20:23
you can see off the side there is I have
20:25
spotted that there's some crockery. You
20:26
can see there's bits of broken plate
20:29
there. There's uh, also loads of coal as
20:32
well. So, I guess what I'm hoping is
20:34
that I'm going to be able to get down
20:36
here and find find a plate. Find a plate
20:39
with something on.
20:41
And uh there we go. That that does look
20:43
as though it might be one until I pull
20:44
it out and I realize actually it's just
20:46
a fragment. Not only that, it's a
20:48
fragment without anything on. So, not
20:50
only was a ship cheaply made, but they
20:52
didn't invest very much in a crockery
20:54
either. So, if only I could go back in
20:57
time to to the people who own this ship
20:58
and said, "Come on guys, do us a favor.
21:00
you know, give us something give us
21:02
something to work with there. I'm sure
21:04
they would say, you know, sort of off
21:06
Frankly, your concerns are no concern of
21:08
ours. Clearly, the reason the ship was
21:11
was built the way it was because it was
21:13
about saving money and, you know, like
21:16
everyone else, I got to deal with the
21:17
economic situation. But there you go.
21:19
So, I'm I'm off the uh port side here.
21:22
I'm having a look around, you know,
21:23
hoping that there might be another
21:24
plate, another bit of crockery. Looks as
21:26
though I found something here. I'm going
21:28
to pull it out and have a quick look at
21:29
it. Once again, it's another fragment of
21:32
plate. Another fragment of plate without
21:34
anything on it. I'm surprised I didn't
21:37
bring these up, but I think it's
21:39
probably difficult to see on this video
21:41
that the but it must have been possible
21:43
to see underwater that there was nothing
21:45
on it. The plates look quite clean. They
21:46
aren't heavily encrusted or anything
21:48
like that. So, here's this yellow rope.
21:50
You can see I'm just coming back up onto
21:52
the wreck now. I've got two hours of
21:54
deco and I'm just thinking right my dive
21:56
is is pretty much done here. And that is
21:59
when I suddenly spot something. And you
22:02
can see there there's a port hole
22:04
underneath that bit of yellow rope and
22:06
I've just seen a a glint of brass there.
22:09
And there you go. That is the moment I
22:12
pull out the bell. And frankly, that is
22:16
that is a brilliant feeling. I'm 98 m
22:19
down. Uh, I was a last diver down and I
22:23
am the person who's found the bell,
22:24
which is just absolutely unbelievable.
22:28
So, the only thing that remains to be
22:29
done is to get it in a bag cuz that's
22:32
going to be coming up with me. And I'm
22:34
pretty convinced at this point. I mean,
22:36
I'm absolutely buzzing. I'm convinced
22:39
that I've solved the mystery. I I
22:41
believe that when I get to the surface,
22:43
we're going to have a look at what's
22:44
written on the bell and then all of a
22:46
sudden we will know the name of this
22:47
ship and it will no longer be a mystery.
22:50
And that that feeling of solving
22:52
something like that, I mean, it's an
22:54
incredible incredible moment. And the
22:56
fact that I believe that I've done it
22:57
underwater and it's not going to take
22:59
any additional research or anything like
23:01
that, you know, I'm just super super
23:03
pleased about that. First things first,
23:06
there's a small matter of getting back
23:08
up to the surface. I'm obviously nearly
23:10
100 m down. I've been down here quite a
23:12
long time. The good news is I'm really
23:15
close to the shot line. And there it is.
23:18
You can see actually mine are the only
23:20
strobes left on it. So, uh, the diver
23:22
who came in with me has already gone.
23:25
So, I don't want to be messing around. I
23:27
am here alone on a wreck by myself. And
23:30
I guess that's because I was just
23:32
heading back to the shop when I found
23:34
the bell. So, but hey, you know what?
23:37
I'm That's a kind of exchange. I'm very
23:39
pleased with additional deco for finding
23:41
a belt. Yeah, absolute winner. And you
23:43
can see here I'm uh I'm motoring up
23:46
really really going for using the
23:47
scooter to kind of get up as shallow as
23:50
I can as quickly as I can. I'm willing
23:52
to accept that my computer is going to
23:54
give me some ascent rate indicators or
23:56
ascent rate alarms. You can see there
23:58
it's uh it's burning red. You can see
24:00
fast ascent just popped up on my sheer
24:01
water. And those who've seen my videos
24:03
will know this is something I often do,
24:06
which is I get up as quickly as I can,
24:08
normally to about half the distance from
24:10
the bottom to my first decompression
24:12
stop. The relative pressure change is
24:14
not as significant there as it is uh and
24:17
shallower. So therefore, my view is that
24:20
it's not as risky. But that's my
24:22
decision. You need to make your own. You
24:25
can see I've skipped forward. I'm a lot
24:27
shallower now. And the reason is that
24:29
we're just coming up to the lazy shot.
24:31
And there it is. You can see a single
24:33
solitary tag left on it. That's mine.
24:35
You can also see it's quite tight as
24:38
well. So, it's probably a sign that the
24:40
current is picking up. Now, you can see
24:42
here that I am trying to pull it and
24:45
it's not working. Not only is it not
24:47
working, um I've kind of bit concerned
24:49
I'm going to puncture my dry glove there
24:51
on that that fairly rubbish clip. So, as
24:54
you can see, it's not in very well. You
24:56
see, it's really tor. I need to try and,
24:58
you know, maybe loosen it so I can I can
25:00
pull it and get it off. And it's just,
25:03
frankly, it's not having it. There you
25:04
go. I'm going to try and use the uh the
25:06
string to avoid me getting punctured.
25:09
And once again, it's still it's still
25:11
not having any of it. So, that calls for
25:13
plan B. And plan B is to cut the not
25:16
plan B, plan B is to cut the prok. Now,
25:20
my one of my other videos, one of the
25:21
ones I posted on Facebook and Instagram,
25:23
got a lot of grief over the quality of
25:25
my knife. So, uh, what I'm going to do
25:27
is use my backup cutting mechanism
25:30
there, which is that trill bite. I keep
25:32
that on the, uh, the waistband of my
25:34
rebreather. And you can see there,
25:36
that's sorted it. Cut the proic. You can
25:38
see the lazy shot has been released and
25:40
is heading away at a rate of knots. So,
25:42
it probably indicates there's a
25:43
reasonable amount of current. Skip
25:46
forward another small bit. And the next
25:48
item on the agenda is to accelerate my
25:50
decompression. You can see there I'm
25:52
changing the high set point to 1.5 on my
25:55
purdix. I've already done the same thing
25:58
on my uh rebreather. So on the
26:01
inspiration which is on my left arm
26:03
there and I'm just confirming they're
26:05
both the same. And you'll have seen
26:06
there that's h that's chopped a healthy
26:08
amount of decompression off which is
26:11
clearly welcome. Just looking up there
26:13
you can see all the other divers above
26:15
me giving them a nice friendly wave.
26:17
also shows how great the visibility is.
26:20
And that's one of the kind of takeaways
26:23
I had from this dive, not only finding
26:25
the bell, but but how stunning the
26:27
visibility was. Skip forward again. You
26:30
can see here that I've reached the
26:32
decompression station, 6 m. There's a
26:34
couple of divers on it. You can see
26:36
there I've got my dive voke in my left
26:38
hand there. And I'm using it to get a
26:40
few photos just because the conditions
26:44
were so so good. And for those of you
26:46
who've not used a dive voke, I love
26:48
these things not only for what I'm doing
26:50
there, which is to take photos, but also
26:53
because I use them to watch films on
26:55
deco stops and it just makes it speed by
26:57
which is just as well because as you can
27:00
see from my deco profile here, I've got
27:02
nearly 3 hours uh to do. You can see I
27:06
left the bottom there with about 150 odd
27:08
minutes time to surface get up. that
27:10
chops down to about just under 130 when
27:14
I do my P2 change up to 1.5 and then
27:17
it's just a case of doing the time doing
27:19
the stops and then right at the end as I
27:22
often do I stay in the water a bit
27:24
longer just to uh as you know it's a bit
27:27
of a extra margin of safety uh for my
27:29
wife and my kids on a dive of this depth
27:33
and duration you're always going to get
27:35
this happen which is you're going to
27:37
exceed your CNS limits it's Just one of
27:40
those things we all accept it and I
27:43
think the kind of science is gradually
27:45
coming round to the view that this
27:47
method of measuring the risk of oxygen
27:49
toxicity is fundamentally flawed. But
27:53
enough of that. Obviously getting to the
27:56
surface was a great moment. Although of
27:58
course the skipper also had to be paid
28:01
his due. I know of course you want to
28:04
know what the solution to the mystery
28:05
is. What did the bell have on it? What
28:09
was the name of the ship? And that is
28:12
the really sad bit of the story because
28:15
the bell had no name. The ship was so
28:17
cheaply made, they didn't even bother to
28:20
put anything on there. So,
28:22
unfortunately, the mystery still
28:24
remains. So, didn't solve this wreck on
28:28
this day, but there's a whole load on my
28:30
channel where I have identified wrecks,
28:33
many that have been missing for hundreds
28:35
of years. Maybe you'll enjoy watching
28:38
those. Or how about some of the other
28:40
videos where I found incredible
28:42
artifacts sitting at the bottom of the
28:44
ocean. What I would say is if there's
28:47
any wreck detectives out there and
28:49
you've seen something we've missed,
28:50
something that might help identify this
28:52
collier, then stick it in the comments.
28:55
Otherwise, I'm Dom Robinson, Deep Wreck
28:58
Diver. I hope you've enjoyed this video
29:00
and I'll look forward to seeing you on
29:02
the next one.

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