Rebreather Parts and Inspo Bits

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Rebreather Try Dive - 7th November 2009

We have booked some inspo rebreather try dives with Matt from M R Diving

The dives will take place at NDAC and will cost £60 + your entrance fee for the day.
Once we are finshed playing around on the CCR's we will be OC diving after.

HMS L24 - 19th September 2009

The HMS L24 is a British L class submarine sunk in 1924 by a collision with HMS Resolution. She is 72m long 7m tall and a width of 4m weighing in at 1,080 tones.

HMS L24


HMS Resolution

We dive of Scimitar (cutlass) for this one, the wreck is sitting in 54m of water. Smudge was skippering for this one and had never manage to get out to her before. A 2 hour stem out of Portland on arrival he found the wreck straight away dropped a shot on her and watched it slightly drift off. There was a very strong current running so Smudge decided to re-shot and this time it held.
We had decided to be last off the boat for this one as the current would be a little on the strong side on the way down. As we dropped down the shot you could still feel the current running and at one point we must have been 90 deg's to the wreck. The shot was perfect it had landed just off from the conning tower we had a 2min breather to figure out which way she had settled on the sea bed. We started to swim down to the bow of the sub looking for the mine hatched and forward hatch. The mine hatches are larger than you would think with twins and 2 stages i could of fitted down one of these. The forward hatch was open and from the records we found they believe that some of the crew tried to make it to the surface when she went down.
Between the coning tower and hatches there was a lot of heavy fishing nets in one Geoff noticed a trapped fish and decided it need rescuing. 5 mins latter with a huge grin on his face Geoff waved the fish off into the darkness of the English Chanel. The L24 is at the state of perfect for a dive, there is just enough marine life that you are still able to make out the details of the sub without it being all about the wreck. We got to the bow and then turned to head back to the stern we could see the dive planes set to hard dive, on seeing this it brings to mind what must have been going on we she was hit. Next to the dive planes there was a HUGE anchor (i did not think sub's had anchor's.....) I'm looking into this after this blog.
We got back to the coning tower and the current dropped right off then picked up again just behind the tower there is a large pulley/arm system which you are still able to make out all the rigging flying past this with the current you then drop straight onto the prop at this point the sea bed rises all most to the top of the wreck, at this we called the dive with a nice bit of deco to do. SMB's sent up and all the deco went as planed. At the 6m stop for 25mins i got out my new toy a waterproof mp3 player and spent the whole time singing my hart out!!!!

HMS L24 is THE best sub dive ever, she has every think you could want and i would go back again.

Merchant Royal - 23rd August 2009

The Merchant Royal sits at a depth of 56m she is standing 15m off the sea bed as is still very recognisable. Her bows have been blown off but her mid section and stern are still quite intact. The hold area is sitting below the sea bed and it possible to get 60m in places. There are also a few large copper ingots around that the salvage teams missed.


The Merchant Royal is a huge 5008 ton British cargo ship which sank in 1946 after a collision with another vessel. She is located south off Portland with a heavy list to the starboard side.

After getting up at 4 am for the drive down to Portland we arrived with sun high in the sky and the temperature rising. We unloaded the van and filled the boat. We would be diving off Cutlass with Simitar for this dive. Some how we manage to get out to the site within an hour and half from leaving port so we had to sit around for half hour waiting for the current to drop off. We would be going in last on this one after the devils of a dive on the MV Ice Prince. Dropping down the line the "day light" stayed with us most of the decent, the viz dropped to about 7m on the wreck which made it difficult to figure out our location on the wreck form the amount of twisted iron around us its lead us to believe we were at the bow section. It was amazing looking at I beams that have been twisted as if there were made of plastic. There was not a lot of life on the small part of wreck we managed to see, this is one of those wrecks were you need to dive it several times just to be able to understand the basic layout. We left the wreck with a strong current picking up which meant we would travel some distance on deco. Back on the boat with a 97min runtime and smiles on our faces.

Would we go back?? Yes but its not at the top of the list