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Deep Wreck Diver Cracks Shipwreck Mystery after 100 Years
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Apr 22, 2025
On this deep shipwreck technical dive, we solve another underwater mystery by locating the Maker's plate in 80 metres (240'). This was one of the best dives I did in 2024 and had pretty much everything; flat seas, stunning visibility and ambient light at 80 metres (240 feet), dolphins on decompression stops and a superb result! The SS Hans Jensen was a Danish ship that was one of four vessels sunk by UB-18 on 13 September 1916. Fortunately all the crew survived by the location remained a mystery until we located it. This awesome dive nearly didn't happen when my Diver Propulsion Vessel (aka scooter) fell apart as I was about to enter the water. Only impressive work by the skipper saved my dive! *Highlights* 00:00 Introduction 01:45 Scooter (DPV) falls apart on the lift! 07:30 Descending the shot 11:00 Tying in the waster 13:00 BOOM - finding the Maker's Plate 23:20 At the bow 32:40 Well buried engine 35:00 Ascending and changing PO2 38:20 Decompression Dolphins! 39:00 Ricks awesome photos
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hi my name is Dom Robinson and this is my deep wreck diver Channel today's video is from one of the best Dives I
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did last year we were 50 Mi out in the middle of the English Channel but conditions were fantastic not just on
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the surface but underwater the visibility was incredible we had dolphins on the decompression stop and
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to cap it all we recovered this which is the maker plat from the SS Hans Yensen a
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Danish ship sunk in 19 16 by a German submarine and missing ever since so I
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really hope that you enjoyed today's video if you don't please tell me why in the comments if you do that would be
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great as well as always feel free to like subscribe turn on your
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notifications but I've got a particular message today for my mate Andy who I hope is watching this he said I'd never
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do this but I do want to tell you Andy you never loved me
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anyway enough of that and on with the video this is a sat out 50 Mi offshore
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middle of the English Channel you see it's a glorious day everyone's on the boat getting themselves ready getting
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kitted up and getting ready to go in there's a skipper uh that's Ben this
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is his boat Size Matters part of the uh excellent inde deep team fast forward a
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couple of minutes you can see people are even more prepared I'm good back about
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to get in part of the first pair you'll see I've got my uh my scooter on my lap there all ready to go and uh this is
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where things probably start to go wrong because unbeknown to me the clip that holds it together Has Come Undone just
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to give you an example of how easy this is to do you can see there comes off really really easily and once it's done
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there's nothing really other than a bit of friction or water pressure holding the scooter together I'm sure I don't
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need to point out to anyone the getting sea waterer in there would be a spectacularly bad idea anyway I've got
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no idea that that clip Has Come Undone so here I am uh standing up and about to
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follow the first diver into the water and as I do that my scooter falls
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apart right in front of me it's incredible I'm incredibly lucky that it doesn't fall into the water that you
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know I'm lucky that I'm not a bit further ahead on the left but all I can do is basically drag in the remnants of
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my scooter back into the boat and then try and figure out what happens next no one on the boat has ever seen anything
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like this happen before poor old Freya she's the crew she's uh she's utterly uh
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astounded and I guess confused you know this isn't part of the uh the standard crew briefing for for anyone so she does
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what any sensible person does she calls a skipper Ben comes over now he's uh
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he's not seen this before either he's also obviously concerned about the the diver who's got uh in the water in front
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of me so once he's conf confirmed that the diver's okay he asks me what I I
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want to happen I guess uh a couple of different options I could uh I could
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have just got in the water and left the scooter uh that would have been probably the easiest thing to do but um I am
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really Keen to get my scooter on this dive because I uh I know how good conditions are going to be so um I
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figure the scooters uh came apart pretty easily uh it's got to be pretty easy to put back together again and I know Ben
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is a really talented competent bloke so uh so what I'm doing now is I'm I'm standing up wearing all my gear uh still
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with all my stages on still with my rebreather on and I'm trying to explain to Ben how to put together the uh the
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scooter he's never used one of these scooters before he's never done it before so actually he's doing he's doing
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a really good job here um apart from one small problem I realize at this point is
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that he's put it together upside down so the uh the video should be on the same
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side as the the handle that I'm holding on and as you can see they're they're they're opposite each other I haven't
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realized this yet so I'm continuing to uh explain to Ben what he needs to do about the strap how it needs to uh to go
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uh onto the scooter and uh you know how it's going to reach the clip and how it's going to be uh clipped together so
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absolutely fair play to Ben he's he's doing that really nicely and it's all it's all coming together it's all
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looking really good I kind of wish I had a a stopwatch um just to time how
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quickly Ben has done this considering how little he knows about the scooter and how quickly he's sorting it all out
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it is uh it's really really impressive um I'm obviously sitting here just Keen
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as anything for him to get on with it so I can get it back and uh there you go he says it's all done it's all good to go
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and I think at this point I've just realized that it's uh it's 180° out and
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he's going to need to take it apart and uh and do it all over again so I've just uh pointed that out to him and uh he's
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he's cracking on with it and once again you know it's a real um testimony to to
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you know what a great bloke Ben is and also you know I guess how good he is at
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these kind of things despite being a relatively young person they uh him and
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his Oppo James they look after all the boats that in deep of got they look after the uh the gas systems uh all the
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the nitrox and triix uh blend facilities and they look after obviously all the
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different parts of uh the engines and all those kind of things so you can see you know Ben is is really cracking on
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with this he's got it back together again he's uh well he's flipped it round first of all he's got it back together
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again he's putting the clip back on it and uh any moment now it's going to be
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ready for me to uh to to give it to me and ready for me to get back in the water so even you know something that
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was potentially really uh really serious and kind of you know challenging has uh
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has been overcome really quickly and uh great news for me because I I want my scooter uh for the dive and there it is
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you can see Ben's uh Ben's got it back together again he's he's bringing it over I'm just mentioning to him I want
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the crotch uh I want that on my crotch U which he's doing he's giving it to me
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and uh I'm I'm ready to go back in again so it's just a case of of Ben moving bo
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back around to uh to to the shot we we haven't drifted very far it's it's pretty slack on the site there isn't
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very much wind and so there I am on the back of the lift all ready to go within
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a really short space of time so uh really impressive I have to say though
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uh I've been standing up in my gear for a lot longer than I would uh I would be happy with so I'm I'm really Keen to get
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back in the water and you can see Ben's obviously motoring a bit there because he wants uh he wants me to get in with
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uh with the other diver who's gone in ahead of me and uh is no doubt sitting there confused and wondering uh
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wondering where I am so that's uh that's a thing on everyone's agenda so fast
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forward a little bit and you can see the shots just coming in on the left hand side I get a shout from fer and uh I'm
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going to be in the water there I go and uh all ready to crack on with the dive no worse for my uh for my slightly
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shocking experience with the scooter you may ask whether I was a bit concerned
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about whether the uh the scooter would leak once I got in the water um I guess that was kind of slightly on my mind at
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this point um but I know that the dive extra scooters are really good and I I
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did actually watch Ben putting it together relatively closely so um I'm I'm pretty confident that he's he's
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managed it it's not a difficult thing to do and so uh you know it's great news I'm in the water Scooter's working you
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can see there that I'm I'm gunning it down and the uh the next item on my agenda is to get to the bottom and the
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reason I'm so Keen to do that is because uh this is is the second dive that we've done on this wreck the first one was was
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mindblowing as well and I know how good it's going to be when we get down there
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so I just I just want to get on with it we we know that this uh this wreck is
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doesn't have a name we thought at this point that we had a name we thought it was a wck called the made of spai which
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which seemed to fit everything we knew about it and therefore what we were doing was we were going down to have another look and see if we could find
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something to uh to confirm that name spai is actually an island in Greece and
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it's uh Ben's family have got connections to that area so he was he was particularly Keen to uh that we try
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and find something it's also a relatively common name for uh for Greek
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ships the one that we thought it was was built in 1921 and sunk very shortly afterwards
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following a collision in in 1924 so quite unusual wasn't a war wreck
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um but um we we were fairly certain that we' found it because the dimensions the cargo the location everything was was
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pretty much spot on so um but we needed that definitive proof as you've probably
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seen I've uh I've turned on the the video camera and the video lights on my scooter which means that I'm going to be
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able to show you video from the from the front of the scooter Now by and large
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that's better quality than the stuff I get off my uh off the power lens cameras mounted on my head so I'll be I'll be
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using the video off the front of the scooter except for points like uh like now where I'm going to start using my
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hands to do things so uh here I am at the bottom of the uh of the shot and uh
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as people who watched my other videos will know that's the moment to um to put the strobes on the line you've obviously
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seen that I've already gone past the uh the strobe left by the first diver you can also just about see the uh the wreck
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start below me there and it is it is looking really good so uh that's it my
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strobes are coming out there they are the double strobe that I like to use and uh they're both going to go on the line
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there be clipped on and uh that'll help me find my way back arguably not needed
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on this dive but uh because the visibility is so good because the wreck is is so linear you know so intact that
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it's easy to navigate around but obviously it's our protocol and uh so you know you follow it just in case you
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need it right there we go I'm back on the uh on the scooter and and you can see me there heading down to the bottom
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of the shot line now I was part of the first pair in and my job was actually to
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uh to tie the waer onto the wreck so even though uh the other di is already
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down here I still need to complete my part of the job so here I am coming up to the uh to the shotline you see that
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blue bit of rope that is the waer so it's it's a thin piece of rope but it's
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enough to hold the the shot into the wreck and as you can see I'm wrapping it around a big piece of
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of metal there uh back around to the um to the to the shotline that that grapple
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and then I'm going to tie it through the top of there and it'll be a bow line come the end of the dive the uh the
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skipper will be able to uh put a bit of uh Power on the engine and basically uh
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when he tries to lift the uh the shot up that will snap that waser and uh and then it will come free of the wreck so
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I've done my roll the uh the shot Line's not going to come off the wreck so I'm back on my scooter to back and have a
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look around and as you can see there is uh there's that winch it's clearly a
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colier um there is coal everywhere you can see the outline of the holds um
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really clearly there um you can see they're full of coal and uh oh there's a couple of
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crayfish for those who like things there's there's a ladder that would have gone in and out of the hold and uh and
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what I'm doing now is I'm making my way forward to to the bridge and the bow the shot is just uh just behind the engine
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this is actually the uh the engine underneath all of this stuff here um as
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I say this is my second dive on on this wreck so I've I've got my bearings really quickly uh beautiful port hole in
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in front of me there um and uh you know you can see just how intact this wreck
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is whole load more coal and a big Conger reel down in there fact congal
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everywhere I think we're probably into double figures already so I'm just having a good look around this bit of
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the wreck um you know just really I guess trying to find out a bit more
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about it now this uh this hole here this is the the hatch where coal would be
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loaded in for the wreck and you see there up in front of me is a binnacle but something else has caught my eye and
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uh and flipp to the power lens now you can see me reaching in to pull it out it's uh it's a square shape clearly
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brass bring it out and uh and as soon as I look at it I mean that is that is
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bingo you know there is no doubt whatsoever what I've just found there you could see the N you could see the
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year on it you could see 1914 you can see Engineers you can see a whole load of stuff I've been on the wreck less
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than a couple of minutes and uh I found a maker's plate and and given where it is you know the engine's buried so this
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has got to be the uh the ship's maker plate so I know instantly that what I've
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done is found something that is going to identify this wreck we have uh we we've solve the mystery you know my heart is
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going like an absolute rate of knots I've obviously you know I've had all that drama on the surface with the scooter falling apart and uh and I've
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got underwater and almost instantly really that's what it seems anyway I
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found a big old maker plate and uh that's going to go in my bag it's going to get clipped to me and I'm going to
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bring that around with me for the rest of the dive keeping it nice and safe and sound because um I don't want to lose that that's uh that's the mystery solved
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and and as soon as we get that to the surface we will know exactly uh exactly what this ship is so I'm I'm really
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really chuffed at this point if nothing else happens on this dive I it's all been worthwhile it's been worth the sort
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three or so hours to get out into the middle of the channel it's been worth nearly flooding my scooter nearly nearly
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nearly losing it um it's h it's all great because you know frankly I love this kind of stuff so boom it's in the
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bag back on me and uh yeah I'm going to pick up the scooter again and I'm going toh carry on with the rest of the
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dive and as you can see there this is the uh this is the bridge area so I've just changed to my uh scooter Cam and
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you probably saw I spotted something interesting there so I'm going in for the kill again and uh there's all sorts
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of bits of broken plate and stuff around here there's that toilet obviously to the left and I just pull it out and you
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can see there slightly disappointed that it's not a bit more intact but it it is a uh a kind of uh I don't know a large
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plate or something like that um on the first dive I did find
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a a Terin dish I guess you'd call it uh completely intact unfortunately no
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shipping line markings or anything on it which is a bit disappointing anyway uh I'm on the move
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again there's another diver to my left hand side uh I've just told him that
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I've uh I found the maker plates um he's obviously very pleased for
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me but there you go he's uh he's having he's having a look around so uh so here
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I am cracking on now one of the things we uh we we thought on the first dive is we thought that some of the super
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structure might have fallen off the side onto the seabed so this is what I'm doing now just uh just having a look
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over onto the seabed and see if there's anything there and uh unfortunately as you can see there isn't there's just uh
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lots of fish and lots of sand um great visibility loads of ambient light but
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but nothing really to uh to see down there um it's always worth doing this I think with X just having a look over the
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side you never know what what uh what might have fallen down but there you go I've I've had enough of that clearly and
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there's the edge of the wreck you can see standing up uh really tall and it's it's one of the uh one of the kind of
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unique things about this wreck not completely unique but certainly very rare is that it is almost it's upright
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and intact most wrecks in the English Channel um collapse and fall down and uh
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therefore all all that's left that's kind of upright is is the uh the boilers the um the engines sometimes the bow
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sometimes the stern but um very rare that you get the complete shape of a ship which is what we've got on the
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wreck so I'm I'm back basically where I was uh on the bridge area forward to the
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towards the Bowers to my right towards the sterners to my left and what I'm doing is I'm just having a really good
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look around this area obviously I found the uh the maker plate which you'd
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expect to be on the bridge so maybe other stuff has fallen Fallen to the rear uh I can't see anything although
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you know you can see there's another I guess uh there would have been a hatch or something there looking down into
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what seems to be a coal bunker the engine is this area off to my left hand
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side um completely covered in debris uh and those kind of
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things um the reason I've not been using my uh my GoPro for this bit of the dive as you can see I just corrected the the
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GoPro there it's it's it's kind of slightly kicked back so the uh the GoPro footage of this bit of the dive is is a
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bit rubbish but there's loads of Port holes uh around here um if if Port Hol
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are a thing this would definitely be a wreck to come and find one uh I'm not particularly interested in them but um
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not least cuz you know almost all these Dives we do the recks are covered in them so this is this is the area after
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of the engine um you know nothing nothing in here but you can see the kind
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of decking down there that would have surrounded the engine you can see there's an oil box in fact there's two
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oil boxes there there's kind of rectangular brass rectangular objects um
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once again they they're associated with engines and there's another oil box so the engine's directly underneath where I
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am at the moment and uh you know you just can't see it unfortunately oil boxes are used they would have been
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filled with with oil obviously and then the oil travels from the oil box down to different parts of the engine that would
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that would need lubricating and I think they these engines did use a lot of oil so they would have um that would have
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been you know a regular task for the crew and everything another congal there you know there is there's just tons of
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them all over this wreck in fact there's there's loads and loads of marine life I we've seen seen all sorts of things and
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uh a few people sometimes comment on my videos are crayfish there bottom right hand side uh there you go you can see it
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uh where you get one you always get lots more so there will be more around edible crab there
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in in the hole and uh English Channel wrecks are covered in uh in marine life
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they are uh absolute nurseries for uh for all sorts of marine life so um you
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know great great for a healthy sea and all those kind of stuff and and also great if you fancy a crab or a lobster
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for your dinner then uh there's there's normally one to be had um that's not what I'm looking for at the moment I'm
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just looking for rather interesting artifacts and as you can see I'm taking my time
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uh I have dived this wreck before as I think I've mentioned so I have been to the bow I did go to Stern on the first
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dive so what I'm just doing now is is just taking my time and having a good look around um taking you know not
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rushing things just you know sometimes things are slightly buried or only partially visible so um you know you
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need to take the time to get your eye in and just to see if if there's anything there's that that binnacle that I saw
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earlier on um and there's the uh all that big where all those congal are on
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the left hand side that was where the the maker plate came out of so uh I'm just going back to another look at the
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binnacle that's that's not a complete binnacle there's no uh Compass Bowl in there I don't know where that is I
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didn't see it um and and the obviously I think the the stand of the compass ball
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the the binnacle for this would have been made probably of uh probably of wood and therefore that's why it's not
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there anymore it's rotted away um and and I'm just pulling it out to have a look at it not particularly interesting
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um so I'm just going to going to leave it there it's obviously got something else stuck to it as well so uh
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interesting but um not really worthy of of much further
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attention so uh back on back on the scooter you can see the gopro's kicked up again so that's hence no GoPro
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footage um it it is a problem with this setup is the GoPro is does easily get
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knocked and therefore you end up with the um with kind of really rubbish footage so you got to got to stay on top
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of it at this moment in time I'm more concentrating on the wreck than I am on anything else there's that toilet again
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so this is the bridge area we've now moved forward of the bridge this is the uh the number two hold um as you can see
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the the starboard side of it off to my right and I this is in this ho is where I found that um terine dish on the first
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dive so I'm going I'm having a good look in here just to see if there's anything else in
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here um you know my kind of suspicion is that stuff has fallen into here you know
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part of the bridge perhaps um part of the galley if that um that uh terine
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dish was there and this is this is where the terine dish was so I'm having a good look around and just seeing if there's
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anything uh anything else in here and uh uh I haven't really found anything so
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I'm going to move forward and uh the reason I'm moving forward is cu obviously the uh the Bell May well be up
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here I did have a really good look for the Bell on the first dive so I'm pretty
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convinced that if uh if it was there I would have found it but you know you never know this is the the forward Mast
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um just broken off off to my left hand side there um masts obviously you know
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potential location for a bell I I did spend a long time on the first dive looking looking around that Mast uh
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didn't find anything and and this is me going forward again up to the bow and you can see there's someone else up here
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as well um having a look for it everybody knows the Bell didn't come up on on the first dive nobody found it so
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so this is absolutely you know what this diver is looking at uh somebody's found a bit a port hole window there that
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they've they've brought out and put up on the wreck um but but no sign of uh no
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sign of very much else obviously bow area as well often find lamp lockers so
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you know there may well be brass lights and stuff in there someone's off the front of the bow uh my money's on that
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bean Rick he he loves a good bow photo so um that's probably what he's doing in
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the bow on this is really lovely it does stand up quite uh tall once again people who've watched my other videos will know
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that I uh I like to pose for photos for Rick so um that's uh that's what I'm
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going to do now um and you can see part of the bow has rotted away but but if I shine my video lights on the bow that
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and and Rick takes a photo from a bit of a distance away that will uh that will look good so so there I am I mean while
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I'm doing this one of the interesting things if you have a look a bit further down the the bow you can see there's actually a big crease in it near the
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bottom and when we saw this on the first dive that that gave us a bit of a that
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added a bit of evidence to our um thought that this might be the ma of SPC eye uh the ma of SP eye was sunk by a
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collision so therefore we thought that may be evidence of the Collision um
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actually the the H Yensen was was sunk by a a German sub submarine the ub-1 18
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a very uh prolific submarine sunk over a 100 ships and uh on this day in
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particular it sunk four vessels of which the Hans Yensen was one in fact the
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survivors from the first vessel it sunk got onto another vessel that vessel was
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it was then sunk by the ub-1 18 and while they were um evacuating waiting
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from um or while they were getting off the that ship that was being sunk they
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were able to watch the H Yensen being boarded and then uh the crew of the the
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ub-1 18 sticking um explosive charges in the bottom of the the H Yensen and and
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they blew out the bottom and and that's what ultimately sunk it so um you know incredible period of History where a
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single submarine can sync four ships in a in a day and three of those four ships
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were were decent size ships you know 2,000 tons that kind of things so uh you know makes a makes quite a big uh impact
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on the war effort I'd have thought so um this is me here still uh you know I'm having a look on the seabed there I am
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posing you know if Rick's still around there's the anchor he is so uh so Rick's still around so I'm still posing I'm
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also looking inside uh inside the hull there you know maybe there's a a lamp Locker maybe there's uh the bells
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falling in there who knows I'm just having taking my time having a good look around so uh no casualties on the Hans
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Yensen was the good idea was was a good news no casualties on either of the other other two wrecks either so um
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although it was a bad day for for shipping it was a good day for uh for human beings so you know that that side
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of this story is is quite nice so uh you know often the wrecks that we dive have
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got loss of life associated with them but uh but not today so the other di is cleared off so uh I'm just coming in and
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having look at checking see if they've missed anything this is right at the front of the bow now so so the bow is
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off to my left hand side the hold that you can see on the right is is the number one hold and you know as I've as
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I've said you know what I'm doing is having a really good look in and around here just to see if there's anything but
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there isn't all there is is lots of coal and and rotten um rotten beams and everything and there's you know you see
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there's more divers clearly the the Bowers attracted other people as well so everyone's everyone's coming for a look
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I think that's probably Rick on my right hand side he's some body else who has a big double video light setup like me um
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people often ask why don't we why why why don't we use strobes um I mean I don't use strobes because I'm doing
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videoing so video lights Mak sense um I think for Rick he doesn't tend to use
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strobes either not least because um it's you just you take lots of photos and
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then you uh you find the ones that that work best so this is back in between number one and number two holes um this
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is the m P again you can see there's some sort of fixing just on the top of it there uh I don't know what what would
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have gone on there um but doesn't look like it's the Bell that's for certain so
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uh having a good look around here no Bell and uh uh that's disappointing but
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I know that we've I know that we've got a name for this wreck because I know as soon as we get on the uh get on the
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internet and uh search using the uh the details on the maker plate We Will We
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Will name the wreck and uh and that's exactly what happened we we identified it within about uh 5 minutes of getting
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mobile phone signal so uh it's incredible what information is available on the internet um and it's incredible
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how easy it is to identify stuff if you've if you've got a maker plate so um they are uh they are wonderful things
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and and you know lots of people will say actually finding a makers plate is better than finding a bell I'm not sure
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I agree with them but um it's still pretty awesome finding uh finding one and and for me
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uh this was actually the third one that I found this year so uh you know incredible and uh you know I've I've
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never found any before so um it was it was really nice and I've got all three up on my wall next to each other memory
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of a of a great year and two of those three were uh were able to identify the
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reck as well so if you've not watched my my video about the SS Lucent that was one of the uh the maker plates that was
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an engine makers plate and my other uh video uh sorry the other maker plate was off a
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Rec called the clan McNab had been identified but um finding the maker
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plate was obviously particularly nice and you can see what I found there is I found a bottle so um that's quite
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interesting having a quick look at it and uh I have a quick look and uh at this moment in time I've seen there's a
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cork in the top and I'm like wow I've got a bottle that's um that's not been cked what I uh what I don't realize is
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actually the bottom has completely gone out of it so when I'm when I'm looking into it I'm looking inside and going wow
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that is really clear the reason it's really clear is it's completely full of seawater so
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um you bit uh bit foolish by me you see I'm still carrying it at the moment and
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I don't realize for another minute or two that it's uh that it's uh it's not as exciting as I as I as I thought have
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found um bottles on other reck um with the corks in um most of the time
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obviously the the seawater has managed to get through the cork it's either rotted it or or pushed it in or whatever
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um and and therefore you know the contents are all spoiled on one very memorable occasion we found a bottle of
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champagne off a wreck in uh near the lizard and uh we it hadn't the seawater
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hadn't got it inside it so it was um you know the as pure as the day it went down
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the only thing was that um that champagne it would appear does not age very well so 100 odd year old champagne
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uh tastes a awful and I would I would recommend strongly against drinking it
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so anyway that's that's a bit of a digression you can see I'm I'm back in the area of the engine there's the
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binnacle off the right hand side and and obviously the place that I found the maker plate um you know I'm just kind of
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really I guess kicking the ass out of looking in this area um but it would it would actually be
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really nice to see the engine it's it's under all that stuff to my left but it's just so buried I guess most of the super
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structure has fallen in on top of the engine and and that's why we can't see it um but somewhere under there is
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probably an engine maker plate um but but we're not finding it today I think
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we probably the wreck needs to deteriorate a lot more before before it will that will open up and uh and
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somebody gets a chance of finding that so uh yeah I'm just taking taking
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the time and having a good look around but realistically I'm I'm kind of I can't have that long
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left on this dive so the other advantage to being here is is obviously it's quite close to the uh the shotline and the
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shotline as we uh as I make it clear on my other videos is is my way home so
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it's not a bad place to be near the shot and uh you just taking my time looking
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at a an area of the wreck where there's all sorts of interesting bits and pieces to find I mean it is I'm loving this
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dive because of the visibility because of the ambient light because obviously the makers plate but also because it is
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a wreck that is so um intact and it's that's such for us
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anyway in the UK such a rarity I know people in places like the uh the black
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SE sorry the uh Baltic and I know in you know the great lakes and everything they
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they get used to diving wrecks that are um that are really intact just don't get
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that in in the English Channel in the UK I think it's more you get it in the North Sea but I've I don't really do
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much diving over there so um I I'm used to Rex being flat and broken so this is
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a real a real pleasure and uh I'm I'm making the most out of it not least
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because I'm unlikely ever to come back here again if I'm coming 50 mil out
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there's a whole load of other wrecks around here that need diving and so I'm going to do those before I before I do
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this one so uh I'm I'm making the most of it my my uh well almost certainly be
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my last dive on the uh on a Hans Yensen but it is a cker and uh I'd strongly
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recommend it if anybody else fancies Nate odd me to dive on a completely intact shipwreck and uh you know one
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with it with an interesting story somewhere around here of course are those other wrecks that I mentioned the other two that were sunk by ub-1 18 on
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the same day and also they're made of spet I so um none of those have been found so there's there's a whole load
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more exploration that needs to to be done out here around here and uh you know I guess I'll be trying to do it
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trying to find a few of those other wrecks but you know if other people do it it'd be great you know the more of
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these Mysteries that get solved uh the better I uh I just love it so uh really
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close to the uh to the shotline now after the engine uh this is another cargo hold here uh you can see there
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there's there's you know more coal this is probably the number three hold uh this would have had four holds um
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another diver off to my left hand side there and uh all the sort of bits and
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pieces that have that have fallen down uh there's that winch saw right at the beginning of the dive uh another diver
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and uh another the rear Mast there not not particularly interesting there wouldn't be a bell on that one so uh no
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point spending much time there's a big Ling um fisherman would be extremely happy if he caught that Ling I'm sure
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it's obviously never seen a diver before it's been really chilled another crayfish uh some sort of rainbow Rass or
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whatever there beautiful colored colored fish there's you know just tons of these things down here um and uh yeah I'm I'm
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kind of getting really close to the to the end of my dive admiring that Ling
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totally chilled really really um relaxed there's another diver uh that's my mate
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Paul he's he's been on a a few of the videos he's got a he's got a lovely helmet like me and he's got his power
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lens M mounted on it so he'll know that have some decent footage of the this dive as
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well uh yeah there's the edge of that number three cargo hold and there is the
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there's a shot line with a diver starting head head up that's uh that's Jace he's uh this was his first dive on
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this wreck I know he had a he had an absolute cker he uh I'm going to beat
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him up and I'm going to go up and I'm grabbing my strobe and that's the uh the end of my end of my bottom time then
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there's my double strobes hanging on uh you tell they're mine they got my green tape on it I've still got my bottle with
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me uh haven't quite twigged that it's uh that it's that I'm wasting my time because the bottom is has completely
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come out of it at this moment in time I'm still thinking that I'm going to be drinking more champagne on the surface or something I don't know but um
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anyway uh there I am I'm I've got my strobes and uh I'm bidding farewell to
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the H Yensen and uh I'm accelerating up the uh up the uh up the shot line
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heading for the uh the lazy shot so one of the things I like to do is to get off the bottom really quickly
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and I do tend to uh accelerate you know go up really quickly the first well it
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depends on the depth really but the first 25% of the bottom I guess um and
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there you go you can see there's a shotline there some other people's strobes and here I go uh heading up
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there you can see I'm venting from the loop getting rid of all the gas that's how come there's a load of bubbles
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surrounding around me and you can see just how beautiful the conditions are look at the um look at the bless of the
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water really unusual you know normally the our Dives everything is green but today everything is blue which is just
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uh just wonderful and uh here here here I come up I'm I'm going to cut it fairly
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soon uh cut to the uh show you a bit of My Deco and then I'm going to finish up with the dolphins but at the moment just
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just to you know marvel at how wonderful the uh the vi is how how clear the water
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is and you know how fantastic conditions are so you see they're looking down the uh down the shotline at all those
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strobes just see see how clear it is um that's me starting to uh I've turning my
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torch off I'm now going to fast forward a bit so I've taken my lazy tag I'm I'm
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above the um uh the cross for the for the lazy shot and you can see what I'm doing
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there is I'm just changing the uh the set point on my uh uh handset on my rebreather so put it up to 1.5 to
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accelerate The Deco and I'm just going to do the same thing on my uh my Shear water for my Standalone so that's going
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to go up to 1.5 as well obviously this will uh just make sure that my uh if if
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there's a problem with the decompression calculation on my um rebreather it'll uh it'll have the same uh understanding of
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what my decompression obligation still is so the other item other thing I need to do is just sort out my scooter and
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you can see here this is me I'm on my decompression and there you can see a diver below me near the uh near the the
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PRC and where the lazy shot joins the main shot uh we're waiting for someone to release it I'm I'm at my Deco stop so
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I'm just tidying up my uh scooter folding all the arms in and then I'll clip it off on my Reb brether I don't
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need it during The Deco and it'll just uh it'll just be kind of out of the way keeping everything uh as tidy as
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possible having said that I did then take my uh I did then use the scooter to
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to take this bit of video these are all the this is after we've released the lazy shot we're all decompressing and
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then hopefully you can see that we got buzzed by Dolphins I turned the parall lenss off by then so this uh I didn't
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get any any video from uh any head mounted video so this is all this is all off the GoPro but you can see there I
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mean that's it's just wonderful when you see Dolphins uh you know this close and
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they're clearly inquisitive they're clearly coming around to have a look at us they clearly want to know what's going on uh you can see there they
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they're popping up for for a breath of air but but the three of them still down staying with us and having a good look
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around and then they uh they head off into the Gloom and uh I've got no more
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video after this which is a real pity but it was a an incredible special incredibly special moment I'm going to
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finish up though with h with a few more of Rick's photos this first one is him looking up the uh
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up the lazy shot showing all the divers above him and uh and you know shows how
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cracking the water is next one is our uh our return journey home always pleased
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to see this when you get to the surface great team at inep who allow us to do this kind of diving penultimate photo
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shows the entire team the people who made this happen actually no freyer on this photo I think she took it but she
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was a really important part of it as well so anyway hope you've enjoyed this
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video and uh I hope you'll uh you'll watch some more of mine okay thank you
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very much
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