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Blesk Bolt Head To Bolt Tail Cantabria HMS Coronation and the Penlee Cannons Deventure Dimitrios Elk HMS Foyle Fylrix Glen Strathallen Halloween Herzogin Cecillie Hiogo James Egan Layne Jebba Liberta Maine Medoc Nepaul Oregon Persier Poulmic Plymouth

Alex Mustard is a hugely talented and prizewinning, underwater photographer. What makes him special though is the fact that he has invented the Magic Filter, which enables any one to take stunning underwater photographs using only available light instead

The seabed around Plymouth is littered with bombs and bullets of all kinds. Most are from the Victorian era, but many are from the last two World Wars, and up to the present day. In this film, the team recover mainly Victorian ammunition, cannonballs,

A great detailed account of the events leading up to the discovery and eventual lifting of the Mary Rose. Very interesting, especially the bits about John Deane and his watercolours, and dispersing the Royal George. Anything

This is the most accessible account of the Mary Rose. It is very detailed and gives a great idea of what an endurance exercise the whole thing became. ISBN 0 285 62544 6

The Mary Rose is probably the most famous shipwreck to be discovered in British waters. Named for Henry VIII sister Mary in 1510, the Mary Rose was the Kings flagship and served in the fleet for thirty five years before

In 1782 the Royal George capsized at Spithead and sank with the loss of nine hundred men women and children. All salvage attempts on the ship failed so she was left to rot. Now fifty years on the wreck had become full

Yes, that's right, I found the Mary Rose. Well that is to say me and Able Seaman Swinfield did, and actually we didn't know we had discovered the most famous shipwreck in Britain until months later. Even so, there I was

The thing to remember about the sixties is that virtually nothing was known about underwater archaeology at all. Nobody really knew how wooden shipwrecks decomposed, and preserving artefacts was a very hit and miss affair.

On the morning of the 16th January 1914, the submarine A7 was exercising in Whitsands Bay. She dived to carry out a mock attack on her escorts and failed to resurface. Her crew of eleven officers and men were never seen again. The A7's sinking was the

Whitsands Bay, stretching from Rame Head to Looe is one of the great Cornish seascapes. Rugged two hundred foot high cliffs overlooking miles of sandy beaches provide an ideal setting for surfer's, sailors, walkers, and divers. Towards

If ever there was a Boy's Own hero then Shackleton is it. Scott is famous for failing to return from the South Pole, but Shackleton is famous for surviving against all the odds and going back and rescuing all his men.

Rame Head with its little chapel guards the entrance to the Bay. The chapel dates back to 600AD and has been used as a church and a lookout. It was from here that a beacon was lit to warn Drake of the approach of the Spanish

Mizzen mast of the Great Britain Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the Great Britain was launched at Bristol in July 19 1843, and was the largest ship afloat in the world at that time. She arrived storm damaged

The Jhelum is a 128 ft boat built in 1849 at Liverpool. Her name comes from a tributary of the Indus river in India. She left Calloa for Dunkirk on the 13 July 1870 overloaded, and rounded Cape Horn with great difficulty.

In 2007 I was lucky enough to go down to the Antarctic on M.V. Discovery. On the way we stopped at the Falkland Islands where, amongst all the wonderful wildlife, they also have lots of abandoned clipper ships and other vessels. M.V.

Named after one of the Falkland islands most common penguins, the Gentoo came to the Falklands in 1927 and then spent many years carrying supplies and wool for the farming company Dean Brothers. She later passed into

The Falkland Islands have a total land area half the size of Wales and are made up of two main large islands, and over seven hundred small ones. The islands are basically very hilly, barren and windswept rather like Dartmoor

The Lady Elizabeth was a three masted barque, 223 ft long,1208 tonnes built in Sunderland by R. Thompson in 1879. her hulk now lies in Whalebone Cove to the east of Stanley harbour and is one of the best preserved wrecks

Montevideo was founded by the Spanish in the early 18th century as a military stronghold. Its natural harbour soon developed into a commercial center competing with the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires. The River Plate is the esturary

Montivideo is the largest city, capital and chief port of Uruguay. Its harbour is one of the most important in the America's. Surrounded by beautiful sandy beaches the city of Montivideo is a mix of historic old buildings

As you come up the River Plate to Montevideo you can see the mast of the Highland Chieftain sticking out of the water from miles away. The un-initiated on the ship thought that this was the remains of the Graff Spee. No

HMS Agamemnon was a Royal Navy third-rate ship of the line with an armament of 64 guns.She was 160 feet long,44 feet in the beam and had a crew of 490 officers and men. She was laid down at Bucklers Hard on the Beaulieu

When the vasa was hauled out of the sea she had to be drenched in a solution called polyethylene glycol, P.E.G. This became the standard for later salvage attempts like the mary Rose. How does it work? Well this extremely

S-130 E boats were much more than just fast torpedo attack boats, they were in reality a scaled down warship. Heavily armed and extremely fast (in excess of 34 knots) they could cause immense damage to much larger enemy ships

Albatross: This ship was 210 tons and 107 ft long, and was built in Svelvik, Norway in 1921 as a whale catcher, but was later converted to sealing. Albatross Dias: This boat is an historically important vessel. She was built

Whalecatcher Petrel The whale catcher Petrel (245 tons and 115 ft) was built in Oslo, Norway in 1928. She was one of the first whale catchers to have a catwalk so that the gunner could run from the bridge to the harpoon

Gritviken (the word is Swedish for Pot Cove) is the principle settlement in the UK territory of South Georgia in the South Atlantic. It was so named by a 1902 Swedish surveyor who found four old English try pots used to render

I have always wanted to go to Gritviken, as it is were the great Polar explorer, Shackleton is buried (see my article about him in the Tombstones section.) Also the abandoned whaling station is very evocative of those (not

Actually this is now resting on the bottom but shows quite clearly. The dock was built in 1928. The idea was that she went out to the whale catchers in the bay and they towed the whale carcasses onto the partly submerged

The SS. Great Britain, built in 1843 at the Great Western Docks in Bristol was a truly innovative vessel. Designed by the great I.K. Brunel, she was the worlds first iron hulled, steam powered, propeller driven ocean

Crackington Haven is a small village on the North Cornish coast situated between Bude and Boscastle, and easily reached from the A39. Once it was a small port importing limestone and coal and exporting slate and local produce.

If you drive from Rame Head back towards Tregantle you will come across Freathy and a large car park. Now don't go down the path opposite because at the bottom are some steep rocks that block your entrance to the bit

As you've probably guessed, Submerged Productions is run for fun rather than profit. Submerged Productions is essentially a cottage industry, run by myself along with a lot of support and encouragement from my wife

The Fatal shore Most of the shipwrecks along the Westcountry coast have come to grief by hitting the shore. Hundreds of ships wrecked, and thousands of poor souls drowned. This video tells their stories,

If you look across the Cattewater from the Barbican you can see the huge hangars that used to be part of R.A.F. Mountbatten.The whole site was handed back to the Council some years ago, and now thriving marine buisenesses

During the Great War the opposing armies soon became locked in the bloody stalemate of trench warfare. Each few precious yards won from the enemy exacted a terrible toll in human lives, and soon it became obvious that

Scapa Flow, the largest and most godforsaken of all the harbours ever used by the Royal Navy, is the scene of one of the most extraordinary naval episodes in history - the scuttling of an entire German High Seas battle

  Shipwreck and Salvage in South Africa Shipwrecks and Salvage in South Africa If you 'click' the link you can order the book online direct from Amazon. This is a great wreck book. Well researched, plenty of

I have sometimes heard it said that if you could pull the plug out from the bottom of the sea, you could almost walk from Plymouth to Start Point over the remains of all the ships that have been wrecked along this

The Poulmic is a very popular wreck and is dived by hundreds of divers each year. Most of them only see what they expect to see, so these three stories might encourage you to look harder at what at first sight is just

The Georg Thiele was a Leberect Maass Class Destroyer with a displacement of 2200 tons, and a complement of 315 officers and men. She was 374 feet long, 37 feet in the beam, and had a draught of nine and a half feet.

This book was published by Gorgi in 1965 and has no ISBN number that I can find, so probably out of print. However it is easily available in second hand stores, so you should not have to much trouble getting hold

by Captain Peter Dickens DSO MBE DSC Royal Navy This book was written in 1974 for the Naval Institute Press. As such it is detailed and authoritative, and gives you a good grasp of what all the different protagonists

The wrecking of the Belgian steamer the Louis Shied could almost be a Victorian tale of virtue going un-rewarded. The Louis Shied, on her way home to Antwerp in the early morning of 7 December 1939, came across the

PADI Lots of worldwide diving news and info here as you'd expect BASC Lots of info about BASC's dive services uboat.net The definitive online guide to every aspect of WWII U-boats The Cousteau

The 'Herzogin Cecillie': the life and times of a four masted Barque "Herzogin Cecillie": Life and Times of a...

Although nobody would wish a ship to be wrecked, I am sure that many of us would admit to feelings of excitement and expectation when one does, especially if it happens right on your own doorstep. Jennycliffe has in

  The Dive Sites of South Africa The Dive Sites of South Africa (Dive... If you are going diving in South Africa this is one of the books to take. Clear descriptions of the dive sites, with what level

We found this just lightly covered in sand. What you might call 'A good Day'   Is this anchor from the Deventia or the Dragon?   The engine block of the Deventia