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#The Silent Hunters
Rebreathers & Submariners
# Pietra Micca
Italian Giant
#Ouroboras
Big Boys Toys
#Megladon
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Wreck
Diving
The
Wreck diving section offer an overview of UK and
worldwide dive sites with information on
expeditions and underwater discoveries both past
and prospective. Advice on expedition
planning and organisation is included together with
relevant features and useful links. |
SS
Leopoldville - The Nightmare Before Christmas
On Christmas eve, 1944 the SS Leopoldville left
Southampton carrying over 2000 American troops from
the 66th Infantry division, known as the Black Panthers,
to support the battle of the Bulge. Just 5 miles
from the safety of Cherbourg she was struck by a
torpedo fired from U-486 commanded by Oberleutnant
Gerhard Meyer. Due to a combination of delays, errors
and mishaps over 800 men lost their lives on that
cold December evening.
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Wreck
And Rock in Menorca - By Ron Mahoney
Turning out for a week’s warm-up diving at
five-thirty in the morning on a cold and rainy day
in early March didn’t exactly fill us with
joy. However in a little over two-hours we’d
be on the Mediterranean island of Menorca where
the sun would be shinning across a clear blue sky
and flat calm sea. We wanted to get a good weeks
diving in to blow out the cobwebs and get us ready
for the UK season to kick off.
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Diving
the SS Coolidge
Vanuatu’s
SS Coolidge has long been a major draw-card for
traveling divers, and many articles have been written
about her by those fortunate enough to visit. But
up on Espiritu Santo, the times they are a changin’.
In this article Richard “Harry” Harris
takes his camera down the “deep end”
of the Coolidge on his mixed gas closed circuit
rebreather (CCR), to capture a story and some great
digital images.
Not another article on the Coolidge! Everyone who’s
anyone has been there and done that. Many have seen
the Lady, checked out the engine room, the pool
and even had a quick peek at the stern on one of
those scary single tank air dives of old! But those
days are numbered...
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Svent
Istvan - Diving into History
By
Fabio Ruberti
I am descending into the depths, something I have
done so many times before. As always I am repeating
the same actions, with the same attention and
coolness; but I also realise that my desire to
see the wreck is something more, almost a hunger.
The water is so clear that suddenly, on the edge
of my vision I think I can see the bottom, but
I know that it is too soon, too shallow. I realise
that it is not the seabed below as I start to
discern two enormous, powerful propellers. One
of them is completely wrapped by a trawl net that
passes over the rudder and disappears into the
depths...
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Diving
Malin
“Why is it that
one of the busiest roads in Scotland has about six
miles of dual carriageway over its eighty-odd mile
length?” was the thought that came to mind
as once more John “Montoya” Lee dropped
a gear to try and get passed another wagon forming
a mobile chicane on the twisting roads towards the
ferry terminal at Stranrear. I was amazed at just
how easily we shot passed the traffic in his low-flying
Mondeo estate, loaded to the gunnels with four twin
sets, four stages a drop cylinder and two scooters.
Upon arriving at the Stenna ferry terminal it was
obvious to see, he’d been using the weight
to lower his suspension.
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The
Isle of Sark - Channel Islands
The
island of Sark is arguably the least known and
least visited of the Channel Islands. The lack
of tourist infrastructure, the fact that the only
means of transport is by foot, bicycle, tractor
or horse and carriage, only serve to add to its
appeal. Sark is a remote almost bizarre experience.
Contrast it with the urban living on mainland
Britain and it is a formula that will captivate
anyone who sets foot on these shores.
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