Reviews
Hydrotac stick on bi-focal lens
Age will weary and mean changes to gear configuration.........the first being a loss of close up vision!
Santi BZ400X 'Extreme' thermal undersuit
I must be getting soft in my old age....five years ago no hood or gloves at any time of the year, then I started with a hood, then gloves, then dry gloves and now this a new undersuit as the 4th Element kit doesn't seem to be 'cutting it' in the winter!
Otter Britannic Superskin Drysuit
What with one thing and another I am looking at changing from a neoprene to membrane drysuit, I am hoping that a more pliable suit makes manouvering with my 'aging' back a tad easier, so where to go? After some investigation and talking with other divers it was time for a trip to Bradford!
Air-Lift for budding treasure hunters
A bit of an odd-ball...........I guess that this is more a review of instructions more than the air-lift that I made.
Kubi dry glove system
I do feel that having been diving for more than 30 years I am due some luxuries in my dotage to make leaping, or should that be rolling, into the cold North Sea slightly more pleasurable.
3D Mesh Vest by Waterproof
Another item of thermal wear for dry-suit users but how does it compare to gear already on the market?
Big Blue AL1000XWP dual set up for Go-Pro
With the popularity of the go-pro set-up it was inevitable that 'specialist' set ups have been developed, but how well has this one been developed?
- Fins, tekkie or sport, standard or modded?
- Seabear H3 Dive Computer (Smart Watch)
- Halcyon 'H' Titanium Knife
- Lumb Brothers 'Crab Hook'
- Sea & Sea YS-01 Strobe
- Ikelite DS51 TTL Strobe
- To wax or not to wax?
- Miflex Hoses
- Hollis 38LX wing and solo technical harness
- Oceanic GT-3 regulator plus FDX-10 1st stage
- Oceanic EOS regulator plus FDX-10 1st stage
- Highland EMT Shears
- Northern Divers Weight and Trim Harness
- Beaver Tech Weight Harness
- 'J Nowill' SBS Titanium Dive Knife
- Halcyon Gaiter Wraps
- Halcyon Exploration Pocket
- Sovereign Diving (Seahouses)
- AP Diving Open Circuit Bailout Mouthpiece
- Waterfront Scuba Servicing Facility
- Waterproof G1 3mm 5 Finger Gloves
- Greenforce F2 Umbilical Torch
- Narked at 90 fourth cell conversion
- Hollis LED 3 Torch
- Atomic Aquatics SS1 Auto-air
- Beaver Aquasnips
- Jotron AQ 4 Strobe
- Shearwater Predator Dive Computer
- AP Diving Oxygen Sensor (R22D)
- Metalsub XRE1000 torch
- Eezycut Trilobite Cutter
- VR3 Dive Computer
- VRX Dive Computer
- Scubapro Seawing Nova
- The Dive Pod (Nuttys Dive Centre)
- Dive-rite Travel Pac
- Atomic Aquatics Frameless mask
- Seaskin suit repair and rock-boots
- Halcyon Pathfinder 400 Reel
- Re-visited Archon D33 torch
- AP Diving: Black Self Sealing SMB with DIN cylinder
- O three Ri 1-100CCN Dry-suit
- Archon D33 torch
- Bigblue Focusing-Spotting Light
- O three heated under vest
Latest Photographs


An atmospheric (arty-farty) shot showing one of the large overhangs on the North side of this site.
Broken bottom and divers!!
The cascabel is turned and there is a 10mm hole machined in the brass blank and it's time to go!
A scenic of one of the masts, snapped where it goes over some other wreckage, going away from the body of the wreck
There was a bit of solder 'snot' but this was easily removed by turning and gentle work with a dremel.
Heading down the boulder slope for the starting point, good vis but don't go straight to the bottom, you will go round and round in a pit!
That's me that is!
Deco stops can eb made less boring trying to get a photo of yourself in gas bubbles coming from guys who have just got onto the shot-line, sad but true!
A B/W shot of the boiler from the North of it
Again the wreckage from the port side, there are more planks than you would think as I am sure that the wreck would have been heavily salvaged by locals!
The propellor from SS Abessinia, you can get some idea of scale when you see the diver hovering around it.
Round sections......it looks very similar to the cross-member on the old admiralty pattern anchor that I lifted from SoP in 2015 but not sure
A small shellfish, probably some type of oyster. I took this photograph as I have never seen one before and thought it may be a 'foreign invader', it isn't!
A Long Legged Spider Crab (Macropodia rostrata) there are loads on all or most sites, this is the most common 'camouflage'.
More wreckage that has just collapsed in on itself
Another Spiny Spider Crab (Maja squinado) common enough down south on on the West Coast of Scotland but not so many around the Farne Islands. It can be a bit disconcerting when they stand up suddenly out of the dirt......
A common starfish (Asterias rubens) attempting to open a small scallop, one of my mates Hud, is so bad at scalloping he looks for starfish feeding and then steals the scallop!
A view from the distance, you can 'always' see the boiler but not the woodwork, or not usually the the woodwork of the hull.
Common Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis), probably why a lot of 'non-locals' dive Babbacombe, I was a touch late this year.
After the 'engine bits' there is an area where it's like a giant meccano kit, protruding maybe 4ft out of the sand.
Huge shaols of Coalfish (Pollachius virens), these were bigger boys and had chased awy the smaller baitfish. They were probably waiting to ambush any fish swept over the top of the wreck when the tide got going properly.