UK Wreck Diving Trips

There are still places left on two of this years UK dive trips. Both trips are in September and they are.

Diving on Skin Deep out of Weymouth on the 1 & 2nd Sept we plan to dive the Avalanche in 50m and the Salsette in 45m both classic UK wreck dives. The cost is £45pp a day.

Diving out of Plymouth on Red Alert on the 17, 18, 19 & 20th Sept we are planning to dive wrecks in the 60-80m range. The cost is £400 per day for the boat divided between the divers.

If you are interested in booking on these trips then please give me a call or email me.

Cheers

Kevin

Unicorn - Tile Wreck

Diving last night out of Plymouth. The dive site was a 28m long freighter that was carrying a cargo of red roof tiles. She sank in heavy seas when her cargo shifted causing her to take on water. She lies in 53m on a muddy/silty seabed. The wreck is very broken with the highest points being the tip of the bow and the boiler. We descended through clear but plankton filled water but as we got deeper so it became darker even though it was a clear sunny evening. Reaching the bottom I was greeted by the bow which is about 3m above the sea bed, setting off along the port side the site is littered with tiles, amongst these there are numerous Conger, edible Crab and Squat Lobster. Around me there was a large shoal of Bib and Pollock swimming just beyond the confines of the wreck site. I followed the wreck to the stern where the steering gear and rudder lie and just beyond these is a large winch that has fallen free of the wreck. I then started to make my way back towards the bow via the starboard side but due to the amount of divers on the wreck the visibility was starting to deteriorate and by time I reached the bow it was down to zero. I decided to call it a day and made my way back up the shot line with 20 mins of stops to do. This is a cracking little dive but would be better with a max of 6 divers.

Hatt Rock

Diving today out of Plymouth. Our first dive was Hatt Rock a dive I first heard about 12 years ago and have been trying to get on since then! Approaching the dive site the surrounding sea bed is in 62m then you hit the reef which rises slowly to around 48m then sharply to 27m (The Hat). The shot was on the top of the reef but right next to the drop off. I descended to 48m through a shoal of Pollock which seemed to be swimming around me for the 25min I stayed at this depth. I swam over a patch of rough ground made up of large flat rocks which housed between 15-20 small Conger Eels. Ascending up the 20m wall which makes the sides of the Hat was a mass of colours blue, purple and pink which was large patches of Jewel Anemones, shinning my torch over these was just a wonderful sight. Once on the top of the reef I explored until I had done 40min, racking up 15min of decompression, it was time to ascend. What a dive it was well worth the wait.

Not content with one amazing dive we then went on to dive the Eddystone Lighthouse reef were I spent 60min under the water. Two of the best reef dives in the UK in one day. Result!

Thanks Danny and Dave