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A brief overview of UK boat diving
This presentation was pulled together to give a brief overview of UK boat diving, everything isn't always as easy as PADI try to present so a colleague and myself decided to let people know what to expect before diving in the UK.
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An 'arty shot' looking up at the wave pattern from below, the knack to this is choosing the optimum depth of water, moving slowly along and breathing very slowly.
The gnomes garden......there are a few broken ones around too!
Until we were lens to nose, so to speak!
More bits from the broken up boiler
Fore-deck equipment, in this case a single anchor chain winding unit, usually powered the holes at the top allow it to be used 'mandraulically' if required.
Sea-squirts and rock boring sponge, so different from North East species!
Some times all that you see are grip wires sticking out of the sand.......
Just a scenic showing the vis on this particular dive, it was around the 10m mark, probably a tad better.
This is the bottom pivot point of the portside rudder which is in remarkable condition considering that the prop shaft was blown through with explosives maybe two yards away.
Part of the stern section of SS Mistley, there is a small area where the girder construction is still present and maybe 1m above the seabed.
Sea Hare (aplysia punctata) you get loads and loads of them on the south side of the point feeding and breeding!
All of the time keep an eye open for Lions Mane Jellyfish (Cyanea capillata) they sting and the tentacles are a few meters long, always approach from up-tide!
A Northern Prawn (Padalus borealis) sitting on a Dead-mans finger (Alcyonium digitatum), when you slow down and l-o-o-k there are loads of these prawns all over the sites.
The tosheroon just after I have started scratting, you can see some scrap iron in the foreground, no interest to me!
The back end of a shaggy mouse slug, or sea mouse or more accurately Aeolidia papillosa, this one was spotted quite early in the season.
A flatfish, species TBC!
This is a nice shot of one of the compressed air cylinders, you can see that a large section has been eroded away by the effect of sea and sand, potentially aided if someone blasted off the bronze fittings.
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