Diario de buceo de Pirate Bear en Diveboard

Pirate Bear
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Ha buceado en: Netherlands Antilles, Portugal, Vietnam, República de Irlanda, España, Malta, Australia, Francia, Egipto, Bélgica, Maldivas, Estados Unidos, Noruega, Reino Unido

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Pirate Bear
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COMPARTIR K

A mainly UK based diver but love diving all around the world (warm and cold waters). 

Originally was forced into diving whilst on holiday, hated the first day of it but fell in love from day two! Now I'm massively obsessed and spend a lot of my time thinking about previous dive trips, future dive trips and pimping my gear.

Love diving for such a different range of reasons.... silence, beauty, nature reclaiming man-made objects, isolation from Blackberry.... list goes on.

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Número total de inmersiones NO en diveboard:
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Inmersiones publicadas:605
Inmersiones totales:801
Inmersiones este año:0
Tiempo total bajo el agua en Diveboard:18 días 23hrs 15 min
La mayoría de las inmersiones en Diveboard en:
Reino Unido
Inmersión más profunda:
75m en Chepstow, Reino Unido
Inmersión más larga:
151 min en Gozo Island,Malta
Fotos en el diario:135
Número de especies avistadas:42

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2013-09-12 Reino Unido St Abbs
Glanmire

So happy we decided to head back to try this wreck again. What a treat awaited us on the seabed. Was still pretty dark at depth but the visibility was good with a torch and such a wonderful array of marine life coated this wreck. Came down the shot line very slowly with Katie as her ears were playing up. Shot line came down on the engine block that was festooned with dead mens fingers and anemones. Combined with the dahlia anemones that cover much of St Abbs head, there were actually a load of plumose anemones on the wreck. Underneath plates of wreckage lots of inquisitive ling were hanging about, aggressive looking pouty pollack (of which one scared the socks off Katie), small and large cod, tonnes of lobsters, edible crabs and velvet swimmers too. Swimming along I was dead set on seeing the prop so headed off sternwards. Was a lovely propeller when we found it although Katie took an extraordinarily long period of time to understand what it was. Took a few videos which have come out okay but was still very dark. Followed the prop shaft back along the keel side of wreck until we reached the engine block again. The boiler had a massive hole in the side but I couldn't tempt Katie to look in to it. Up towards the bow and was amazed to see the deck railings exposed on the seabed. The bow was coated in life as per the rest of the wreck. Katie found a fairly new looking mug around here somewhere that I stashed in my pocket! Spotted Liz and Tom around the bow making the most of their borrowed torches. At this point we had to send up a DSMB (which I managed to get a bit tangled at first) and head up for our deco stops.
2014-05-04 Reino Unido Swanage
Kyarra

What an awesome dive. A real bonus at the end of the weekend. Visibility was much better than yesterday and we had lots of fun poking around in all the holes as well as being able to make out discernible structure on the wreck. Dropped on the bow as before but made our way sternwards spotting the winches, boiler and derricks. I spent a little while trying to free a lovely looking green bottle from under a section of plating.... in the process disturbing a large-ish lobster from underneath me who looked particularly disgruntled by the situation. Alas the bottle did not pop out of the silt but shortly afterwards Nessa spotted a Worcestershire Sauce bottle lying on the seabed.... what a find! Overall with the viz being lovely and such a nice array of congers, bib, lobster and crab to watch we ended up maxing out our bottom time (34 mins) and having over 15 mins of deco- ooops. Lovely dive.
2014-05-26 Reino Unido South West
Maine (Ss)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzJQviuPG_Y Cracking diving on this wreck. About as good as British diving gets. Shot was off the port side just aft of the engine room. So we made our way sternwards along the side before dropping into the main hull. Amazed to find a Bull huss just above the stern section. ... Mast have been at least 4 foot long. Filmed him and the conger eel underneath him for a short while before heading over to look at the steering quadrant which still looks very intact. Moving forward we soon found ourselves inside the main part of the wreck moving towards the massive engine block and boilers. Lovely light through the whole wreck and tonnes of bib, pollack and mackerel. Took plenty of video including a spider crab marching across the seabed. Up towards the bow we tried to make out the bow locker where the anchors used to be found. Looks like the storms over the winter have really damaged the wreck as most of the intact bow section has been knocked away. Amazed at how visibly damaged a wreck of a hundred years can become over just one stormy winter. Tried to set off my dsmb bottle but turns out it wasn't filled :-( so I filled it (poorly) from my octopus. Coming back up the line we had plenty of fun playing with the plankton and hydroids? In the sunshine and beautiful viz. Steaming back in to Dartmouth came across a few dolphin swimming West. A very good bank holiday indeed.
2014-06-22 Reino Unido Swanage
Avanti

What a great dive. The viz was much better than yesterday on the high water slack. Diving with Michelle which meant we could have a decent bottom time. Down onto the wreck was much easier than yesterday as shorter line and less current. Must have been about 10m foreward of the boilers. Moved around a fair while until we reached the boilers. looked like the starboard boiler was half submerged and under a large section of plating. Behind the boilers the engine block was exposed and the large crank was out on show. Michelle pointed out a conger inside. ... Had a look and then swam away but she called me back as the eel had a fishing hook caught in its mouth. She was holding the line so I whipped out my shears and cut it free. .... good to test access and use of the shears at 40m! Moved aft a bit further following bits that looked very much like the prop shaft. A curious large cuckoo wrasse came to investigate as we moved a way down towards the steering quadrant. Stuck underneath was a brand new CQR Anchor (with stickers still attached! ) and shiny chain..... Would have been nice to have lifted that if I'd had my lifting bag with me! Think the skipper will be back for it tomorrow though. Nice 27 mins bottom time followed by a couple of deep stops and 10 mins of deco on 80%. Back on the surface we meet up with the other 6 of our divers as the skipper was struggling with shotline. So we formed something of a flotilla with our flags and blobs.... He was very impressed with how well drilled we were. Cracking dive and amazing to have been out of the water by 8:30 into beautiful sunshine.