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What Happens When Deep Divers Miss the Wreck?
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Jun 9, 2025
Getting shot lines on deep wrecks can be challenging, and on this dive, we expected to find a sunken shipwreck at 90 metres, but there was nothing there. Missing the wreck highlights the unpredictable nature of unknown deep wreck exploration in challenging conditions. Follow us as we conduct an underwater search until eventually we are successful in locating the shipwreck. Along the way we also encounter a huge, critically endangered flapper skate (Dipturus intermedius)! *Thanks* This video contains an overlay showing my dive computer's information throughout the dive. A massive thanks to @EricStott who has worked tirelessly to get this sorted - thank you! *Highlights* 00:00 Introduction 05:04 Arriving at the bottom - no wreck! 11:06 Encountering the Flapper Skate 14:13 Finding the wreck 21:21 Tying off the reel 25:28 Start of the ascent 29:07 Decompression profile *Boat* This dive took place from MV Clasina and skipper by Bob Anderson, who are a fantastic combination - https://www.clasina.co.uk/clasina/ *Photos* Thanks to Rick Ayrton & Káťa Opuntia (Barvířová) for permission to use their media
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getting shot lines on deep wrecks is a real art most of the time we're
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absolutely fortunate and the skippers nail it but sometimes they don't quite get it right so this video is a dive
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where we missed the wreck well we initially missed the wreck anyway so loads of interesting things in this
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video you've already seen that massive skate that we found on the uh on the bottom but there's a whole load of other
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good stuff as well i think you'll enjoy the process we go through i'm pretty certain you'll enjoy the results so if
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you give us a like if you give us a comment that'd be brilliant otherwise sit back watch and enjoy this dive is
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from the 2023 Lost in Waters Deep and Gasperados expedition to the Ornne
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Islands many of you will know it as Scappa Flow we pushed well out of the flow up towards Fair Island beyond and
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this was the fifth dive that we did the previous days we'd had some absolutely blinding results we'd found HMS Negro
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we'd found HMS Host and we'd dived on two other cracking wrecks as well so we
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were absolutely on a roll it was uh it was going really well so this dive was
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on our way back into Scapper Flow we we'd done our main objectives and there was an unknown mark on the chart that we
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thought we'd go and investigate getting a shot on it proved quite challenging and the skipper had about four five
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maybe six goes every time it went down the shot would would move and so it had
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to be recovered brought back on the boat and then put in again which is just frustrating and time consuming for everybody so eventually it got it down
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and it didn't move and it was like brilliant here's our chance as happened on every dive on this trip Rick and
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myself got ourselves in first and we had the scooters and we then scooted down as
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quickly as we possibly could now this dive is another one where I've got my uh
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dive computer information showing in the bottom left hand side i've also got the dive profile in in the center and you
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can see there that's obviously time along the bottom axis and depth along the uh the left axis the y-axis so
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hopefully that'll be useful people who like to track these things one of the slight problems is that the logging
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frequency on the the log that I've got for this dive is I think every 10 seconds so it doesn't update maybe as
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often as you would do but hey it's better than nothing and the good news is div from this point onwards I've I've
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increased the logging frequency so I will uh get more accurate profiles but hey uh hopefully you'll find it
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interesting and I'd just like to give a massive shout out to uh Eric Sto who's
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the guy who has who has done the work to allow this to happen i'm going to put a link in the description and uh in the
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top of the screen there which will allow you to go to his YouTube channel watch
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his videos i'm sure he would really appreciate that but also on there is one that explains how you can do exactly the
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same thing with your dives so there's information on uh the telemetry software and how to get it from the sheer water
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onto onto the screen so um that's really good bit of kit anyway back onto the
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dive so you can see here uh this is me scootering down i've got my GoPro on
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i've got my video lights on 27 m it's it's it's pretty dark but you can see the waters looking really clear and
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that's absolutely what you get in this part of the world if you haven't watched my video about the finding of HMS Negro
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you should you should definitely do that it's um it it's one I'm really proud of
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we This was the day before this dive so we found the bell we identified the
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wreck we solved the mystery we did that the day before this dive the day before
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that we dived on HMS Host which was the vessel that was involved in the collision with HMS Negro um that one was
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upside down so uh we weren't conclusively able to identify it but
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there's no other ships down there that or in this area that match the kind of um the features of the host so it had
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yarrow boilers it was the right length all the right place all those kind of things so it's pretty certain it is and
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we uh identified another wreck the day before that as well so it was we were having an absolutely cracking time and
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then we're on this mark uh it was actually thought to be a submarine um
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and there are a few missing submarines in and around Scapplow so we were kind of uh you know we were kind of slightly
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excited about going down i think there was um although it had been suggested it was a submarine I think there was some
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knowledge that perhaps it wasn't and that was maybe based on the side scan kevin Heath was the the man who was
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doing a lot of the research behind all these dives and he was the the person who was giving uh us that information so
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anyway we uh we were going down you know hoping that it was going to be another fourth uh identification you know day on
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day and obviously Rick and myself being the first down the line every day you know we kind of felt those now this is
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me getting to the bottom of the shot line and what you need to do is try and figure out what I didn't do on this dive
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that I should do i'm not going to say now but you uh I'll say towards the end of the dive if you know what it is stick
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something in the comments but anyway so I've got down to the bottom of the shot line and you can
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see there is the shot which is a spud weight and the thing that's floating above it is what we were using as a pill
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we'd had a few problems with the pill so we were sending it up the line but
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uh obviously there's no wreck and you can see it goes pitch black and the reason it's gone pitch black is because
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it is really dark down here but it's also because I am getting out this thing here which is my distance line so we'll
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get to the bottom of the wreck at bottom of the shot line there's no wreck so as the first pair of divers down what we're
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going to do is look for it and we're going to distance line out from the shot line to try and find the wreck we're not
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going to send the pill up because obviously there is there's no wreck but there we go so I've attached my distance
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line you can see to the bottom of the shot there i don't know what's going on oh I think I've managed to puncture my
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dry glove so what I've done there is you can see that little bit of tube in my right hand that I've just taken that out
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of the dry glove and I'm going to close a dry glove up and that will although my
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hand will be wet it will stop the water going up the inner seal up into my arm
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so uh I've done that this is uh I don't know how I managed to puncture that dry glove maybe it was just leaking um maybe
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I sometimes I snag them when I put my gear on and all that kind of stuff anyway I am here i've attached my
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distance line and I'm now scootering out and I think we had a rough idea in which
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direction um that the current was running so what I'm doing here is is
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running into uh where we think the current would be and obviously the kind
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of thought is that the shot has been on the wreck and has then dragged off in the current so that's kind of what I'm
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doing and as I'm going out here I'm looking for drag marks because that big uh that big weight down there will
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obviously hasn't snagged onto anything and if the current is strong enough it will it will move now there isn't any
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drag marks on on this particular bit of the shot because um this one didn't move
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as we know but the all the previous attempts to shop the wreck we know that the shot line was moving so therefore
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there are going to be some drag marks around here somewhere so you can see there just looking back and I'm reeling
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out there's Rick behind me he's still with me and but I'm now at 90 m you can
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see I've I'm only what 7 minutes into the dive i've already got half an hour
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of of TTS and there's no sign of the wreck so at some point you know you've
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got to kind of decide whether the uh deco is worth the uh the hassle um but
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you know what I as one of there's some plus sides to being the first pair of divers down the plus side is you
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obviously get on to whatever you're on first of all the downside is if this happens and the shot isn't on the wreck
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your number one job is to try and find the shot so that the other divers can get it on the wreck and that is
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obviously what Rick and myself are doing but it's pretty blank and featureless down here you can see there's nothing
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just a few uh there's some sand waves on the bottom very small sand waves there's a few pebbles there's a few bits of
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plankton or something i don't know what that is growing growing down here what there isn't is uh any wreck now
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obviously I'm I'm reeling out on the distance line at some point I'm going to get far enough and I'm going to either turn to the left or turn to the right
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depending as the whim takes me and then I'm going to do a a big circular search
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but I'm not I'm not quite at that point yet but I suspect I am going to be uh pretty pretty soon so
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uh there you go you can see and what am I looking out for well wrecks sometimes
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you can see them if the water is light enough you can see like shadows from wrecks that sometimes does happen
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sometimes you can see bits of wreckage on the seabed you know bits that have fallen off it that can be a really good
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clue sometimes you can see actually the sand builds up next to the wreck and so
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you start to see a little bit of a mound sometimes you also see um you know that the seabed changes composition as well
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so sometimes you get more you know rocks or less rocks or u but for me the big
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giveaway that you're near a wreck is always fish if you see fish you know
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pretty much that you're close to close to a wreck so that's what I'm looking for and it tends to be small fish um
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they like to live in wrecks obviously they offer food and they're good source of protection everything you see small fish you're probably close to a wreck
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what you can see there here though is this is a drag mark so this is in fact there's a pair of drag marks you can see
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there so that's pretty good grouping uh from the from the wreck from the skipper you can see he's tried to he's tried to
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put it on the wreck he's he's obviously not been successful and there there is those drag marks in the sand and what
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you can see me doing is I'm I'm following up here i'm hoping that the wreck is at one end of those uh one end
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of those drag marks but uh we shall see so hopefully you're all on the edge of
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your seats in kind of anticipation for what I'm going to what I'm going to find but what I would do is just highlight
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the um highlight the the deco again so here we are it's um you know 8 minutes
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30 into the dive i've got 40 minutes of TTS and uh what we haven't got obviously
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is a wreck there's Rick off to the right hand side of me and uh yeah so we're
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sticking together he's obviously off to the right a bit he's looking out mainly to the right i'm looking mainly to the
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left and you could probably hear me calling to Rick there and I think I've
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probably felt that we've gone out far enough there you
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go hopefully he's heard me i'm probably waiting for him to look at me there we go i've decided to go left I think not
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particularly sure why I've decided to go left but I have then that is totally
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totally unexpected that is a big flapper skate i
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mean that's It looks smaller than it is but trust me that was that was a beast
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um and these are a type of skate that you get in and around the Orcne Islands
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this kind of north part of North Scotland they do loads of research loads of studies on them and everything they put down kind of baited traps and all
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that sort of stuff and they were really excited there was a one of the crew on board the boat was part of the team that
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was doing that work and she was really excited when we got back on the boat and we we said we'd seen one of those much
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more excited about that than she was um about what we're we're going to find in a bit but anyway you can see here what
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I've done is I've locked the distance line off now and I'm now going in an arc you can see I'm just going over another
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one of those drag marks down there and uh but still still no sign of the wreck
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so I've been down been in the water 10 minutes now you know this kind of depth 90 odd meters your total bottom time is
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is going to be 20 something minutes and even then you're going to get a nearly three-hour deco so I'm incurring a
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fairly significant penalty here and obviously what I'm going to be is
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absolutely devastated if I don't find the wreck because of course it's all kind of for no particularly good reason
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so uh I'm I'm bringing it in a bit you just probably saw at the top another one of those drag marks but even though the
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viz is good it is pitch black so what I'm really looking for now is is kind of
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fish i think possibly at this point I might even have have given up you can see me start to reel back in rick is is
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starting to come back in i think we've just decided at this point that there's there's nothing particularly there now
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for anybody uh I've got a huge admiration for cave divers not because they're diving caves which is just
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pretty dull frankly um but because what they uh they often do is they do a lot of uh distance line work while
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scootering and it is a complete pain to do that you've got to as you can see here what you do is you kind of scooter
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a bit you reel in a bit you scooter in a bit you reel in a bit and it's it's just kind of really hard work but um anyway
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it it it is what it is um that's what I'm doing and you can see Rick's gone a
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bit ahead of me he doesn't have to do the he doesn't have to do the reeling in so he can just scooter back but he's not
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being too far away he's keeping an eye on me now I think around about this point what I do is I just look off to my right and you remember I said about the
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sometimes the bottom changes composition and you know we know the wreck is around here somewhere but it just seems to me
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this bit off the right just seems as though the bottom is changing composition a bit there's a few more
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rocks and then look bingo there's some fish and the instant I see those fish I'm like that is a really good sign the
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bottom's really different there's loads of fish i am I'm kind of I'm starting to get a little bit of adrenaline going and
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I'm starting to think yeah this is the wreck is somewhere close and you could probably just hear me calling out there
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that um I've I've seen it and there it is bump i mean it's not a huge distance from the shot line but it is 90 m and
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you know and therefore having spent all that time you know 10 odd minutes uh
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doing a search for it at this depth and then to find it I am I'm I'm just really excited so um I think one thing first
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thing you can say is definitely not a submarine um and you can see I've just come over the top of it now and it's
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clearly lying on its side what I don't know at this moment is the bow is off to my right and the uh the stern is off to
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my left but I'm going to figure that out out fair enough and you can see this is not a particularly um particularly big
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wreck and that's why it's been so difficult to shot because it's lying with the tide and it's a small wreck so
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um even though those drag marks were actually really close to this it's um
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obviously it's it's not been close enough to kind of to sit on it
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and I mean the other thing I would say is is that the boat that we're using Placina is a big old beam troller and
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now you know moving it around to do really precise shoting is uh I mean I've never done it so I'm not a skipper but I
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would imagine is not the easiest thing in the world so to to get the shot as close as it was is given the size of
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this wreck is actually quite an impressive piece of work and anybody who thinks differently frankly has has never
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tried to do it so um yeah I mean cudos you can see there the size of the ship
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that boiler is is the entire beam of the ship you can see what I'm doing here is I'm just reeling in a bit more of my
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reel and then I'm going to leave it on the edge of the wreck so that other people when they get down the shot line can um can come on
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it so the whole focus of this dive has now changed up until this point it's been about getting on the wreck which
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I've now done i've laid the line so other people will hopefully get to the bottom of the shot line deploy their own
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line and follow mine and get over here what it's now this dive is now about trying to find anything that will help
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us to identify this wreck so what I'm doing now as you can see here is well I'm just having a quick look at my dive
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computer there 72 minutes TTS so uh I ain't got long i haven't got much time
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in this wreck so I need to do whatever I can that's me going over the top there and you can just see that's obviously a
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small uh steam engine uh three cylinders i think that would be useful um you know
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in terms of identifying it if you wanted to do really well you could measure the uh measure the cylinder heads obviously
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don't have time also don't have a tape measure uh there's a big net at the back
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this probably area here maybe you know it there'd be a bridge or some
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accommodation or some crew or something like that none of that there's just a big old uh big old net right around the
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stern so um but you know quite a few fish where
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were they when I when I needed them e where were they you know why weren't they guiding me in instead they're just sitting here hiding in the uh hiding in
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the net so I'm just having a quick look in here obviously the stern is often where accommodation areas are um so I'm
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kind of hoping that there might be something in there that would would give us a clue you know a bit of crockery or something like that unfortunately there
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isn't anything and nobody found anything at all like that on this wreck so um we
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weren't you know we weren't able to identify i mean there's a few potential kind of small steam trollers and I think
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that the view was that this was a fishing vessel up the front there's a kind of like a bathtub thing that we
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think might be associated with fishing and there's there's quite a few of them lost you know of this kind of era in this type uh part of the world you can
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see there there's there's the prop uh the rudder is over um so turning to port
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um you know that may or may not be relevant if we if we knew a bit more about it but um at the moment it's just
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kind of an observation and then uh looking over the you know I'm back on the top here having you know a look
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again you can see there my my TTS is just kind of going up and up and up once again looking inside here trying to find
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anything but there's nothing you know this I guess seems to be a relatively cheaply made vessel there's I haven't
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seen a single brass thing so far and I normally normally pretty good at spotting them what I have seen there
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though that's obviously my my distance line like all my reels it's made by Kent
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Tooling Diving Products uh John and Liz down in Kent who are absolutely
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fantastic super super people and you know make absolutely super quality kit
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um I'll put the link in the comments if you if you're interested in buying one they uh these things they'll survive
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nuclear war they are they're absolutely bombproof so um but you can see I'm
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reeling back in there and it's probably because I'm you see I've got up to an hour and a half and I know that I'm not
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coming back to the back of the ship i pro I want to be going to the bow so I'm starting to reel in uh there you see
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it's gone pitch black again which is happens as soon as the the lights are
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nowhere i'm look nowhere near my face so uh you just see the kind of the dive
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computer through the gloom but most of it is pitch black there is stuff going on that genuinely it's because I'm doing
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something with my reel and the video lights from my scooter aren't illuminating things so all you're seeing
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is is my arms waving around there i think I've just put the uh the reel on another bit of the wreck there you go in
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fact I've wrapped it round a little bit um and that's because I'm going to go up and have a look at the bow now
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so there you go the stern is off to my left hand side now this is the bow up the front there and you can see there's
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some sort of uh tube or possibly mast there on the right in front of it is is the thing that we called the bathtub um
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I don't know what it is but kind of view was it was something to do with fishing um and here I am you can see up on the
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bow again having a look around obviously wouldn't you know really keen to try and find the bell which would be the you
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know what we need because because obviously that then sorts everything but we don't find the bell and you know who
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knows where it is maybe this wreck as you saw at the stern is covered in fishing line so maybe at some point uh
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it's been trolled off or dredged off or in fact could just be there lying under that pile of stuff in the sand um who
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knows probably uh nobody will ever will ever dive this thing again so it's unlikely
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that it will be found but this is what I'm doing here is I'm just slowly looking down there and and trying to see if there's anything i mean there's a few
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bits and pieces on the seabed but none of them um unfortunately are looking
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that interesting a bit of troll gear there you can see those kind of circular black rubber things but nothing nothing
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really so I guess if you had to put an era on this uh this vessel you'd probably say it was in between the walls
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i haven't really seen anything that would indicate there's electricity on board it i mean it might be kind of late
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Victorian that kind of time um who knows but you can see part of the side is
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stoved in here so maybe that's the reason it sank or maybe that's something that's happened afterwards we will
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probably never know unfortunately but then down to the side there you can see uh there's a strobe that's uh that's
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Rick i suspect he's probably put that on there to let other divers know now we
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hadn't let the uh let let the pill go
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so the interesting thing is other divers did get in the water and I think what
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we'd said was that if there's no pill by 10 minutes people would get in the water anyway and come down if they saw a
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delayed SMB come up then nobody would bother getting in the water because they knew there wasn't a wreck but obviously
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for us to go back to the shot to release the pill would be would have taken quite
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a lot of our dive time so we found the wreck we are going to uh get ourselves
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back now there's my reel and I don't want to leave it down there because
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although they are great things of beauty they're also quite expensive so what I'm g I do want to leave a line so that
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people know how to get from the shop to the wreck so the solution to this problem is to is to chop the line and
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that's what I'm going to do um anybody who's seen my vania video will uh will
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have seen me do this badly on that video but this one I'm going to take out my uh
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my knife i'm going to chop the line in fact I've just done it and then in fact no I haven't sorry here I am there's You
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can see the line in front of me i've got it relatively tor i'm going to get out the little knife that I've got attached
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to my convoluted hose and I will then chop the There it is chop it so there's
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rope from the shot line to the wreck i've got my reel so it's not it's not been left down here and that means I can
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head back knowing that my role my duty is done um so that's that's what I'm going to be
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doing there rick has got slightly other ideas though i think like me he was a bit um burnt by the whole Vanelia thing
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so he's decided that I haven't put the line on well enough so he's going to tie
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it to tie it to the wreck a bit better so that's what he's doing down there you can see him uh on the seabed now the
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other thing about Rick is is that he'd only been on the wreck for a really small amount of time as well so small
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amount of time so when I found the wreck he'd actually gone back to the shot line wasn't until he got back to the shot line and realized I wasn't there that he
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then came back down the distance line and found me on the wreck so he's he's literally only been on the wreck for a
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couple of minutes um which means he he didn't get many photos he didn't really get a good look around it but obviously
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we'd had several days of really good diving so Rick's uh I think you know
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felt duty bound to make sure that everyone else got on the wreck and um that's obviously what what he's making
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sure happens there by by tying it on nicely in fact there you go you can just see we've uh we've got the first of the other divers who've come along and have
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followed my bit of string and are going to have a nice dive on the wreck because we we we sorted them out so well done
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us and that's that's just the way it it goes sometime but it's actually a really
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good really good result and one of the things with this kind of diving is it is absolutely a team game so actually what
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you can see here is you can see how close that drag mark is to the wreck you know really close and shows how well Bob
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did with his uh with his uh with getting the shot in it's just it was a really
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really difficult thing to to shot you can also see that we're going to be back at the um at the shot in very very soon and it
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wasn't actually that far away although obviously at 90 m everything seems like a long way in fact there's another two
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drag lines so uh you can see with these three that we've just seen already plus
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the fourth there's at least evidence of four attempts to put the shot in and I'm sure there was more as well i think I'll
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just pause there to wait for Rick to to catch me up which I assume he's he's done i can probably just see the um see
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his light or something out the corner of my eye that might not be visible in the uh in in the paral lens paral lens
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doesn't I think capture the full uh field of my of my eyes vision so but it
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normally does and here we go we're getting back to the shot here you can see and I guess there's another diver
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he's uh he's going the other way very pleased in fact there's the uh there's the other uh there's the shot and you
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can see the current has uh started to uh as current has changed it was vertical on the way down it's now starting to
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drag and it's dragging the other way so it's a good it's a good job that we tied it to the wreck and there's me telling the the the other divers which way to
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the wreck now the other thing to remember is you probably at the beginning I said you have to remember
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what it is that I didn't do that I should have done and what I didn't do that I should have done is put on my ice
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strobe which I didn't do so uh I got a bit task focused on doing the distance
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line search which was poor drills by me but hey you know everybody everybody
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gets it wrong sometimes and that's life but you can see there we are we're both
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uh both powering back up the shot line now and you can see that I've got 130
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minutes of TTS first deco stop is at 45 m it's going to be uh going to be quite
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a long time for those of you interested you can see the gas that I've been breathing here is 880 so it's really
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good helium mix really good gas density and equivalent narcotic depth for for
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this kind of dive but also just see my computer's telling me I've got a bit of fast ascent there and I think I've
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mentioned this before that I like to get off the bottom quickly and and Rick does as well um and no point hanging around
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so I I certainly the first part of the ascent I I get off really quickly and then I I try to bring it down to 10 m a
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minute for for the rest of the ascent until I get up to my first eco stop so that is that is what's happening and you
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can see I've skipped a bit here it's gone dark because I've turned off my video lights you can see this is me here
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just kind of hooking my scooter up onto the front front of my Rebreather clearly
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anyone who's seen my scooter video will know that I no longer put it behind me but that's that's it going on there i'm
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at my first deco stop which is 40 odd meters uh there's Rick he's just below me and the next thing I'm going to do
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well you just see having a quick look at my dive computer there i've slightly bounced my deco stop that's why it's it's gone red you can see there I'm at
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42.9 i should be at 45 m so I just need to get myself uh back down again and uh
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that's that's kind of what I'm doing uh it goes sheer water goes red when it really doesn't like you bounce
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you know missing your deco stop uh it goes yellow when it and then you've got a period of time I think it's a minute
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or possibly two minutes to get back down to the right depth and you can see that's uh that's what I'm currently doing here so I will get to 45 uh m in a
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uh in a little bit i'm sure either that or the stop depth will change to 42
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that's the other thing that happens i think that's what's happened in this case if you haven't Yeah no it is the I've cleared the 45 m stop so that's all
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the case so what I'm doing now is you can see I'm using my uh rebreather
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handset on the left hand side i'm changing the set point to 1.45 bar and once I've done that which you can't see
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uh once I've done that I will do the same thing on my on my sheer water and the good thing is that this is actually
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positioned really nicely to see in my paral lens doesn't always happen on many of my dives but you can see there we go
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change it up to 1.5 um with the kind of two button press system and pushing it
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back and that will obviously help out uh by reducing my decco or accelerating my
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decco I should say more precisely so on the subject of my deco here is my deco profile uh you can see
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standard sheer water download you see there got to the bottom really quickly about the 3m minute point and you can
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see the kind of diving see us hitting the wreck about there you can see I come up off the seabed and there's the rest
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of the diving you see me dropping back down coming back over to the shot and then obviously fairly rapid ascent up to
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get up to my first deco stop and you can see there that's when I uh when I change or accelerate the decode you can see it
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makes about 15 minutes difference in terms of total decompression required and there I do I come up all the way
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eventually get on the trapze at the 6 m point and uh come slightly above the trapze for the 3 m stops and eventually
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get out the water at about the 2 and 1 half hour mark so if you haven't already done so I'd encourage you to go and have
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a look at my HMS Negro video every dividing a belt and to find one on a
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really significant you know historical wreck like that is just But that was
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yesterday's dive i hope you've enjoyed today's dive which is all about uh what
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you do if the shot isn't on the wreck and how you cope with it and how sometimes you've got to take that time
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to have a look around anyway hope you all enjoyed it and I look forward to seeing you on the next one
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