• 17-18 September Mixed Gas Diving out of Eyemouth

    Ross Coventry organised a Weekends Diving with Marinequest, the Friday was to be a large Wreck in 90 metres, but the weather was too bad to get out, Saturday was ok big long 2m swells so we headed out 30miles to a mark 47 metres long lying intact in 58 metres. The visibility was superb even with a bit of snot in the water...we found an old Steam Trawler lying on a sany rocky seabed with a slight list to Starboard, lots of Trawl gear on the wreck and lots of Fish, nice helm and EngineRoom Telegraph but all deck structure looked to have been trawled away...very picturesque with deck beams covered in life, lots of portholes and various brass bits...nice Shaving Mug, but no Bell...looks to have been a victim of a WW1 U-Boat at a guess.

    Sunday Weather was predicted to pick up from North, so we set off at 09:00 to dive a close in Wreck about 5 miles out, known as the Competition Wreck by Locals, and thought to be the Ringholm sunk in 1917 by UC41...sun was shining and Sea was as flat as it gets and we dropped into stunning vis it was like Diving in Malta I could see the strobes on the Shotline Flashing from 15 metres, dropping down it was great until at about 50metres it got a bit murky, on the wreck vis was maybe 7-8 metres but looking up there was lots of light...cracking big wreck covered in life, lots to see but Ross had some Computer issues so we cut our Bottom time to 15mins..ascending up the line and while removing my Strobe looking up the line i could see Divers all the way up on their stops, from 40m we could see the surface! after a runtime of about 50mins back on Boat i found that a bell had come up, it was an interesting time as we tried to work out who's lift bag it was...finally when all Divers were back onboard it was found to be Lornes, a lovely Brifge bell which is being cleaned to see if it will give a name...

    Great weekends Diving, my unit performed superbly, looking forward to next one in October

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