http://www.submerged.co.uk/skaalla.php Shipwrecks and diving around Devon and the world Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:31:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.submerged.co.uk/skaalla.php#comment-12551 joseph croft Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:42:50 +0000 http://submerged.co.uk/wordpress/skaalla.php#comment-12551 i found this page by accident , but it brought back fond memories of when we used to dive on the Maine and The Skaala from Pat Dean's boat out of Salcombe in the late seventies early eighties , i still have block of the coal , which i have placed on the freeads , i was told it was special smokeless fuel for the steamers during the fist world war , at 64 years of age now , i am bit too old for the diving , but my old diving buddie still gets a few dives in and he is in his seventies , he even has a dedicated room at home with a lot of artifacts , we also used to go across to France and dive the normandy landing sites , i found this page by accident , but it brought back fond memories of when we used to dive on the Maine and The Skaala from Pat Dean’s boat out of Salcombe in the late seventies early eighties , i still have block of the coal , which i have placed on the freeads , i was told it was special smokeless fuel for the steamers during the fist world war , at 64 years of age now , i am bit too old for the diving , but my old diving buddie still gets a few dives in and he is in his seventies , he even has a dedicated room at home with a lot of artifacts , we also used to go across to France and dive the normandy landing sites ,

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