This was a great dive. I'm an ex diver . Not allowed to dive anymore due to my health but love you guys taking me back down. Loads of love from aberdeen scotland❤
@@D33pUK sorry what's your first name? And yes I hear they found a warship just off Fraserburgh. Is that what you are talking about? I know 3 old wrecks not on charts just about 2 miles east of light house and new aberdeen harbour. I am an ex merchant seaman.!
@@D33pUK hi dom my name is riky. It's the hawke I was talking about .it's so great they found her so many men are now found and family's have answers now. I love seeing this. America it has taken off with scuba divers . I hope we can do the same here in the UK? I would love to be part or hand advice or be a pain as I would dive against advice to max 50 feet.
Great dive. As a commercial air diver some 20yrs ago, but still doing a bit of pleasure diving its great to see you chaps pushing the boundaries and finding untouched wrecks. Brian from Torquay. Dive buddy of the late Steve Sargison
RIP the members of the crew that were lost in the sinking, most of the so called cruisers were only fitted out with ancient deck guns or gun and obviously had no defence against torpedo's. Brilliant film of your dive, great respect to you, I would never have had the courage to do that!
Absolutely, the crew stepped up to the plate in a time of national need and did their duty. It's so sad that many of them paid the ultimate price. It's nice to be able to say that we now know where their resting place is located. Glad that you enjoyed the video!
Fascinating video! So many dive videos are edited for content rather than giving us the full experience! And the music was the PERFECT volume! Not too loud, nor too quiet on my ear buds or speakers. Just a peaceful ambient soundtrack to a hauntingly beautiful video. Thanks!
that seems like claustrophobia could be a thing. Disappearing into the darkness. Thanks for sharing something I would not do, but is really cool to watch you do, from my couch. 😁
Fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable. You have just gained a subscriber. (The technology has come a long way since i watched Ron and Valerie Taylor in the 70's) !
Wow. That was amazing. Thanks for sharing. It would be great to see more of these unidentified ww1 wrecks off the south coast of Ireland identified. There are so many of them.
On this trip we also dived and identified three other wrecks off Cork. Unfortunately the visibility was really poor so they don't make for great videos
I can’t imagine a dive to nearly 400’ and the training that takes. Also, the courage. I’m just a recreational diver with several certifications - Nitrox, wreck diving, etc., so a tip of the hat, Sir.
Great Video! Thank you for narrating. It gives us aspiring divers examples to follow and goals to work towards. Working on mastering twin 117s and long hose at the minute. Intro to tech is coming around the corner.
Dang, takes me back to diving the unknown/undived stuff out of S Eire 30 years ago. Deep, dark, good viz and looooong deco after 10 mins at 90m+ on open circuit. Was freaky listening to the trawlers working around the area. Great wreck, very reminiscent of the Moldavia unsurprisingly. Nice one and thank you for putting it up.
@@D33pUK Minihaha was epic as I remember, huge and not dived much. Also a flower class sloop that hadn't been dived, and a few others. Your video still gave me that huge buzz where your eyes are straining to see the wreck and then she looms out of the gloom, but how much net is always the next question?
I believe that the Minihaha has been visited again in the last few years and I've heard it's a great dive! I'm sure you must have done the Lusitania as well so might enjoy the video I did from my first trip in 2021 - ruclips.net/video/6tn_Jn4nlWo/видео.html
Great video, and even greater dive. I would love if you could add time, depth, temperature and tts as an overlay in a video it would give so much more context on deco and how one minute imacts your tts. All in all great video
@rade6063 Glad you enjoyed it. My paralenz does have the facility to add depth & temperature to the video so I'll do that in future. Not sure how I'd manage deco obligation but I'll see what I can do!
@@D33pUK Hey great to hear, btw is paralenz still in production? It sure makes great videos. For deco obligation I've seen it done on a video of the Britanic dive from 2023 I think.
Very clean wreck for nets and fishing line. Visibility looks good. Stern on WW1 wrecks always had good anti submarine guns. Always have the best brass and crockery too..
A really nice dive you did there, I was impressed by the clarity and detail you can see even with one light! At that depth do you have any deep concerns if something goes awry? If you have two lights on your scooter and one dies, do you now think that in the future you might be fitting a third light on your scooter, as if you didn’t have any flashing beacons then you could have been in a sticky situation. My brother in law is into diving and I was impressed with his video’s, they didn’t have the clarity of your video but I could still makes out a lot of things. My dad would have loved your footage as he used to dive in his younger years, but he had to stop due to problems with one of his ears which he had a mastoid cavity. Dive. Save so we can see more of your videos. Warmest regards Phil
Thanks for the comment Phil and glad you enjoyed it. I did have a spare torch in my pocket but elected not to take it out whilst I had one video light going. When that went, I was so close to the shot and my bottom time was so done so it actually worked out ok!
@@D33pUK you was fairy lucky as there’s a few watching that clip thinking about a quote from a movie “ you’re not afraid of the dark are you?” I think a few would be thing crap, crap, crap!!!💩 thank goodness for the strobes, I realise that anything that is required for diving is always going to be expensive. I used to be an engineer that made scientific testing machinery for the PPE industry, to test tings like visors, helmets chemical resistance suit# etc. I hade hike a one off bathroom spare loo roll holder, out of an old. Past test date breathing bottle. I used to take them home and make things out of them. They still have an alloy compression/ decompression chamber, it’s a single person. I. Keep thinking about getting hold of it and make something that’s wacky. Thanks again for your video and answers, its much appreciated, Have a great week ahead. All the best, Phil
Fascinating, thank you kindly for letting us tag along. If you wouldn't mind my two cents, perhaps underdub the background music just a bit more? Just a tad too loud and therefore distracting. 🙂
Thanks for taking the time to comment and a few other people have flagged up the background music. I'll definitely make it less intrusive for future videos!
@@D33pUK And its pretty much compulsory on any RUclips video featuring the sea to use "the Final Countdown" by Europe as the background music. And, as the previous comment points out, make the music much louder. Ear splitting volume. And use an AI commentary. One that says informative things like, "this ship is a ship. Diving on the ship might be hazardous or it might not be. Diving is a recreational activity that people who like diving do." Thanks! Excellent video.
I'm going back aways now but when i was young i had a fasination with Scuba diving and even went to diving school and fell in love with it. our instructor was very professional and we really got to know what it meant to be a diver and what you needed to know about working from depth. Unfortunately while my skills in a controlled and supervised enviornment gave me knowledge and confidence, i was ill prepared for open waters even under instruction. I remember that day well, fully kitted out and weighted up in Angelsey, my courage bolted and i wouldn't leave the boat. I was so disappointed in myself i gave up even though my instructor advised me to get past my fears and face them. I guess he saw something in me i never could.
Sorry to hear about your bad experience and we all know people who have had similar. Diving can feel really unnatural and it isn't for everyone so I wouldn't let it bother you too much.
Thanks for showing the dive. Good you talk about what you were doing. The repetative music got me near the end when I thought you'd find the ships name on the bow. Maybe better without it or it being very quiet. Been on The Liberty Wreck Bali several times which is about 30 mts max
Thanks for the comment and it would have been great to find the bell or something else with the name. Unfortunately the bow was very broken so if they are there then they might be buried under sand or wreckage. Other people have also highlighted the music so I'm going to address that on future videos.
We all understand the risks and have spent many years honing skill/procedures to mitigate them. we're all self funded so a chamber would be prohibitively expensive.
Not my kind of adventure... However,❤ this expertly hosted video has perfect music and is superbly narrated. Where's the sea life on these dives? Like the buggers whom hunt using light. Or does spotlights scare them away🤔 👻 its October!
Thanks for the positive feedback which is really appreciated! We normally get lots of fish life on the deep wrecks which are attracted by the lights (occasionally swim into them ......). I'm sure some of my future videos will show this!
@@D33pUK your welcome. I did see a small fish show up about three different times in your video. Never seen an ocean fish like it that I recall, and so deep a water to. ( forgive me, for I think of colorful fish when visualizing ocean aquatic life. Though, the further away from our Earth's Equator there color is mostly silvery greys, blacks, dark greens and such. Also, as I understood from previous claims from other deep sea explorers around the British Isles there exist certain anti-human type fish whom feed on shipwreck victims. The subject grouses me out. However, what does such a creature look like...exactly? How do you fellas survive around such predators of the sea? Not that any are evil. Just that...its a living creature accustomed to bottom feeding and devouring other living & dead creatures. Where my interest stems from is a colorful deep ocean fish book. Creatures that are quite bizarre.and kinda fasinating...from afar. I recall pics to memory from age 12. Or perhaps I mis-interpreted how exactly deep this wreck is. Ballsey stuff for certain. Glad your sharing your adventures on yt. Unlike other videos with odd viewing angles, your adventure was fealt as a mangled wreck and if not for your expert knowledge, experience, editing & follow up comments I'd of been lost in what to expect. Again the music choice helped me remain focused on your viewpoints of interest.
Thanks, I've got more videos to come which I hope you'll enjoy! Next one should be about how we tried to identify a World War One submarine lying in 85 metres
120m! That is a LONG way down, and dark. Thank God for the strobes, but look at the amount of old net, and your buddy? Big risk of entanglement in unseen discarded fishing gear, so take care. It doesn’t take too much for a light to fail, a snare in old fishing gear, and you are in extreme danger oh so quickly. Amazing to do and see, but please, try and stay around so you can share more amazing dives 🙏🏻
Thanks for your comments. There's no doubt that this is a high risk activity but the team has a huge amount of experience in the best ways to minimising them. I plan on being around for a long time to share more videos 👍👍👍
I’ve dived with a Drager unit, but never a Buddie, and never tri-mix @@D33pUK. Do you add Helium into the circuit as you descend to drop the O2 PP, and then add extra O2 on the ascent to bring it back to 21%?
@@D33pUK Thank you for that answer, I also wondered about your breathing system. I haven't dived for well over thirty years now, and the deepest I did was 50m on open circuit air. A previous commenter has mentioned the Moldavia, which was one of my favourites.
Very cool! My dad was a dive instructor for PADI years ago. I only have an advanced openwater with a wrecking diving specialty from PADI. Never learned the try mix or used a full face mask before. It's just a bit unnerving for me going that deep.
Thanks, like most other things it's about have the right kit, training, experience and people around you. I consider myself very fortunate to have those!
Your yellow gloves - they're not marigolds are they, or some other special type of tough material. Thank you for the video - not something I would attempt, too risky. I done 2 dives out abroad, max 15 mtrs depth, and even then I felt a bit panicky in case something went wrong. Subscribed to the channel, love these videos as they are very interesting, thank you
Slightly thicker than Marigolds 🤣 but I love them because they stand out so well. Other divers never miss my hand signals! I'm sure we all felt panicky the first time but, like most things, you get more confident as you do more. Glad you enjoyed the videos & thanks for commenting
@@jonathaningram4672 Yes that's the rebreather, they're incredible pieces of technology especially given the ambient pressure which is thirteen times greater than that on the surface!
Deco was approx 3.5 hours, you can see the profile towards the end of my video. We can't afford the expense of a chamber so that was all done in water!
8:06 Bloody netting, I saw that a few frames ago. Ghost gear is the scourge of the seas as it never stops fishing. I live in a small fishing village and when the season is over sometimes the government funds recovery of ghost gear, you basically go out and drag for it. And, if I might make a suggestion, your footage and narration are strong enough on their own, I think you could skip the canned music, it's a bit distracting really, and your video would still be just as good. My gran's brother was killed when his ship (HMS Duke of Albany) was torpedoed off the Pentland Skerries in 1916, so I'm a bit of a fan of wreck dives from that era.
Thanks for the comments and a few people have picked up on the music. I've got more videos to come so will sort this on them! Sorry about your gran's brother, not sure if you have seen that the bell has been located - lostinwatersdeep.co.uk/hms-duke-of-albany.html
@@D33pUK Hi there, yes, thanks, I've been following that story. I actually sent the divers blueprints of the ship. The photos of her are quite moving. An interesting thing came out of the Admiralty inquiry into the sinking: it was determined that some of those who died were killed when depth charges that had already been armed began to explode. They then issued a directive that depth charges were not to be armed until they were ready to be dropped. My gran's brother was James Graham, he was a fireman (a stoker). He'd been married just 6 weeks.
I'm afraid I don't have the nerve to do this kind of thing. Did Scuba many years ago, but the idea of diving into the deep pitch black still sends a shiver up my spine. I assume there's a protocol that stops you wiping away silt to look for serial numbers and that sort of thing?
Thanks for including us on this dive. Sketchy! But so glad you did it! (Is that my imagination or at 13:54 is that a big halibut laying on the sand (head and half the body - looking left to right) - sort of at nine o'clock low?
Yes, it's just a bit of plastic with my name on. On the ascent, the last person to remove their tag also releases the lazy shot so we can drift with the current!
The strobes didn't slip, what happened was the current reduced which meant that the shot wasn't as taut as when I put them on it. This caused the rope to fall to the seabed, and my strobes with them
Wasn't it Mel Fisher who cut a window into a surfboard and then paddled around the reefs and beaches until he found Atocha gold? Teddy Tucker? Kip Wagner? 🤔🤔 One of those guys glued a plate of glass in a surfboard and meandered around the beaches and reefs all day. ☺ I mean short of beachcombing with a metal detector what better way to look for it? 🤗
I love the video, it is like diving yourself. The music is a thing that just about kills it for me, it is very numbing and monotone. No offence meant, but if I don't mention it then it will go on and on and never get understood. I always wonder about why there has to be accompanying music that takes the fun out of the video. It is almost always way to loud. But you at least fade it when you narrate, it's the only reason I finished watching it. Video, well done, music;.. needs to be in the background, not the main feature, sorry.
Thanks so much for taking the time to comment and I value your feedback on the music. I don't think anyone would be interested in listening to me for the whole video so feel that I need something to cover the gaps. Getting royalty free music is difficult (licenses, etc) but I'll see if I can get something a bit better for future ones!
Great video. Can't get over the quick decompression time. We used to spend up to three days in the decompression chamber from dives to 150-160 meters, admittedly we were working out of diving bells and did much longer bottom times, still seems quick though. What gas mix were you using?
Our diving uses a very different approach to saturation diving and I'm pretty certain we accept a higher risk of getting bent that you would have experienced. Having said that we've all done lots of similar dives without any major issues My diluent was 10 % Oxygen and 85% Helium, the rebreather then mixes it with 100% oxygen to create a mix with an oxygen partial pressure of 1.3 bar. On decompression stops this increases to 1.5 bar - you can see me changing it in the video
Ships are such complexities of formed and bracketed steel beams. Wrecks excite me, but always are a bit sad when one considers the hours of design and then construction, technical operation, and then destruction. We humans waste our best capabilities.
@grahamlane1313 Yes I dived with 8/85 trimix diluent for this dive. Right towards the end of the video you can see my profile from the dive computer but I left bottom at approx minute 24, first decompression stop was at 66 metres and I got out of the water after about 4 hours!
The next step would be to send an underwater robot , called ROV , to photograph the wreck from one end to the other, in order to create a 3D model, because unfortunately, it looks more like a collapsed tangle of steel structures , than the wreck of a cruise ship, it must be said that over time, corrosion has done its work, in addition to a priori fishing vessels which have hung their nets on it.
Thanks for commenting. The human body has no issue with a pressure of 13 times atmospheric which is what you experience down there. You just have to clear your ears and make sure the gas you breath is at ambient pressure so lungs etc don't collapse!
Pls accept as a genuine query but Is it common practice to tie strobes using a prussic knot? maybe a alpine butterfly in main drop which would be 100% fixed, the french prussic is created to slide enabling descending and ascending and only locks when under load,if those strobes drop in a group(depending neg/pos/neu buoyancy)then they'll probably be out of sight as would if they went up the main line to surface?
No problems at all and always pleased to respond to questions! The lazy shot is attached with a prussic whereas the strobes are attached using bungee that wraps round the shot line. The bungee didn't actually move on the line. What happened is that the tension in the shot line reduced (less tide) and the weight of the strobes attached by other divers meant that more of it sunk to the bottom. That's why my strobes ended up in the wreck!
You're right there weren't may fish down there which is unusual as we normally see lots on these wrecks. Lots of nets are just a hazard we get used too!
I've dived many times on sewers, new pipelines, pilling, and other stuff. I've never heard music. It spoils the whole vlog, and I'm afraid it's ruined it for me, so I'm gone.
@bazra19 Sorry to hear that you don't like the music and a few other people have made a similar point. Because of this none of my more recent videos have any music!
Yes everyone was diving with Closed Circuit Rebreathers, mainly AP Inspirations although also two JJs. The wreck is definitely well broken although it's difficult to say what the cause was. 100 years being battered by winter storms certainly won't have helped!
@@D33pUKI remember in the early 80s being told that it would never work when I said that someone would combine a rebreather (at that time 'oxygen rebreather' & limited to 33 feet (10 metres) with a gas chromatograph. Then gas sampling in car engines came along & now we have closed circuit rebreathers of the type that you use with all the advantages that brings.
Like many other activities, diving carries an element of risk. Of course that increases with depth but the team who did this dive are some of the most experienced and competent technical divers in the country (and arguably the world).
@@dpointe7467 The strobes dropped down because the tension on the shot line reduced after I'd fixed them so more of it ended up coiled on the wreck. It occasionally happens. Lights were checked and were fine on the surface. Thirteen bar of pressure sometimes causes kit to fail!
If you enjoyed this *deep wreck diving video* then check out my other ones 👉www.youtube.com/@D33pUK 🙏
This was a great dive. I'm an ex diver . Not allowed to dive anymore due to my health but love you guys taking me back down. Loads of love from aberdeen scotland❤
@@RichardThorburn thanks and sorry to hear that. There's some great diving up near you!
@@D33pUK sorry what's your first name? And yes I hear they found a warship just off Fraserburgh. Is that what you are talking about? I know 3 old wrecks not on charts just about 2 miles east of light house and new aberdeen harbour. I am an ex merchant seaman.!
@@RichardThorburn I'm Dom - I know the guys who found HMS Hawke in August which is in your part of the world
@@D33pUK hi dom my name is riky. It's the hawke I was talking about .it's so great they found her so many men are now found and family's have answers now. I love seeing this. America it has taken off with scuba divers . I hope we can do the same here in the UK? I would love to be part or hand advice or be a pain as I would dive against advice to max 50 feet.
Great dive. As a commercial air diver some 20yrs ago, but still doing a bit of pleasure diving its great to see you chaps pushing the boundaries and finding untouched wrecks. Brian from Torquay. Dive buddy of the late Steve Sargison
@@brianhorrocks4450 Thanks Brian, really appreciate the feedback. I've just looked up Steve and his exped to the Kuda Maru - incredible story!
RIP the members of the crew that were lost in the sinking, most of the so called cruisers were only fitted out with ancient deck guns or gun and obviously had no defence against torpedo's.
Brilliant film of your dive, great respect to you, I would never have had the courage to do that!
Absolutely, the crew stepped up to the plate in a time of national need and did their duty. It's so sad that many of them paid the ultimate price. It's nice to be able to say that we now know where their resting place is located.
Glad that you enjoyed the video!
Absolutely loved this. I dove for 22 years, loads of wrecks. This brought back memories
Thanks, wreck diving is such a fantastic sport
Fascinating video! So many dive videos are edited for content rather than giving us the full experience! And the music was the PERFECT volume! Not too loud, nor too quiet on my ear buds or speakers. Just a peaceful ambient soundtrack to a hauntingly beautiful video. Thanks!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
that seems like claustrophobia could be a thing. Disappearing into the darkness. Thanks for sharing something I would not do, but is really cool to watch you do, from my couch. 😁
Definitely not for everyone but glad you enjoyed it
Fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable.
You have just gained a subscriber.
(The technology has come a long way since i watched Ron and Valerie Taylor in the 70's) !
Thanks for taking the time to comment and glad you enjoyed it!
Wow. That was amazing. Thanks for sharing. It would be great to see more of these unidentified ww1 wrecks off the south coast of Ireland identified. There are so many of them.
On this trip we also dived and identified three other wrecks off Cork. Unfortunately the visibility was really poor so they don't make for great videos
@@D33pUKfantastic. What wrecks were they please?
@@Willard05 SS Dart, SS Akassa and SS Imataka
@@D33pUKthat is fantastic. You guys are making a valuable contribution to history by identifying and documenting these wrecks
I certainly feel that way so nice to know that others feel the same!
Fantastic, well done guys.
Many thanks!
When the lights went out….ill just sit here and watch on YT…great vid!
@alexwilliamson1486 That was definitely my prompt to start heading upwards!
I can’t imagine a dive to nearly 400’ and the training that takes. Also, the courage. I’m just a recreational diver with several certifications - Nitrox, wreck diving, etc., so a tip of the hat, Sir.
Thanks & very kind of you to say so. All diving is great and I still love my recreational stuff as well!
Great video mate!
Hello from Victoria Australia 👍
Thanks 👍. Probably a lot warmer where you are 😂
Great vid. Helps me know what I am looking at! That is a BIG dive!
Cheers Mike, everything about it was epic!
I love diving,the peace and quiet.
No ANNOYING MUSIC.!!!!!!
Yes, lots of people have said the same - no music on my more recent videos!
@D33pUK I love diving,its the only time I'm fully focused and not thinking about anything else.!!!
Saw your dive chart,found the depth( no thsnks to you) bloody blistering barnicles!!
For my fellow Americans, 120 Meters = 393 Feet. Great video and narration.
Thanks and glad you enjoyed it!
Great Video! Thank you for narrating. It gives us aspiring divers examples to follow and goals to work towards. Working on mastering twin 117s and long hose at the minute. Intro to tech is coming around the corner.
Glad you found it interesting and we've all been on the same journey as you! Enjoy
What a great video! Thank you for sharing 🤿👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed it!
Absolutely brilliant, you fellas are pro plus 👍
Thanks 👍 really kind of you to say so
Dang, takes me back to diving the unknown/undived stuff out of S Eire 30 years ago. Deep, dark, good viz and looooong deco after 10 mins at 90m+ on open circuit. Was freaky listening to the trawlers working around the area. Great wreck, very reminiscent of the Moldavia unsurprisingly. Nice one and thank you for putting it up.
We also did some other dives close to Cork and had a similar experience to you! Great wrecks but the vis was so bad .....
@@D33pUK Minihaha was epic as I remember, huge and not dived much. Also a flower class sloop that hadn't been dived, and a few others. Your video still gave me that huge buzz where your eyes are straining to see the wreck and then she looms out of the gloom, but how much net is always the next question?
I believe that the Minihaha has been visited again in the last few years and I've heard it's a great dive! I'm sure you must have done the Lusitania as well so might enjoy the video I did from my first trip in 2021 - ruclips.net/video/6tn_Jn4nlWo/видео.html
@@D33pUK Not done the Lusitania, couldn't get permission from Mr Beamiss so did other stuff similar depth, a little less high profile.
Awesome! Thank you.
You're welcome!
Awesome dive. Well done!
Thanks! 👍
Very interesting, thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it
Well done.
Thank you 🤘💪 Awesome video !
Glad you liked it!
@@D33pUK many things to find in Doggerland
Well explained! Very interesting
Glad you liked it
Very cool stuff bud.
Thanks 👍
Balls the size of grapefruits!!
Thanks!
Great video, and even greater dive. I would love if you could add time, depth, temperature and tts as an overlay in a video it would give so much more context on deco and how one minute imacts your tts. All in all great video
@rade6063 Glad you enjoyed it. My paralenz does have the facility to add depth & temperature to the video so I'll do that in future. Not sure how I'd manage deco obligation but I'll see what I can do!
@@D33pUK Hey great to hear, btw is paralenz still in production? It sure makes great videos. For deco obligation I've seen it done on a video of the Britanic dive from 2023 I think.
Excellent!👍🏻
Thank you! 👍
Very clean wreck for nets and fishing line. Visibility looks good. Stern on WW1 wrecks always had good anti submarine guns. Always have the best brass and crockery too..
A really nice dive you did there, I was impressed by the clarity and detail you can see even with one light! At that depth do you have any deep concerns if something goes awry? If you have two lights on your scooter and one dies, do you now think that in the future you might be fitting a third light on your scooter, as if you didn’t have any flashing beacons then you could have been in a sticky situation. My brother in law is into diving and I was impressed with his video’s, they didn’t have the clarity of your video but I could still makes out a lot of things. My dad would have loved your footage as he used to dive in his younger years, but he had to stop due to problems with one of his ears which he had a mastoid cavity. Dive. Save so we can see more of your videos. Warmest regards Phil
Thanks for the comment Phil and glad you enjoyed it. I did have a spare torch in my pocket but elected not to take it out whilst I had one video light going. When that went, I was so close to the shot and my bottom time was so done so it actually worked out ok!
@@D33pUK you was fairy lucky as there’s a few watching that clip thinking about a quote from a movie “ you’re not afraid of the dark are you?” I think a few would be thing crap, crap, crap!!!💩 thank goodness for the strobes, I realise that anything that is required for diving is always going to be expensive. I used to be an engineer that made scientific testing machinery for the PPE industry, to test tings like visors, helmets chemical resistance suit# etc. I hade hike a one off bathroom spare loo roll holder, out of an old. Past test date breathing bottle. I used to take them home and make things out of them. They still have an alloy compression/ decompression chamber, it’s a single person. I. Keep thinking about getting hold of it and make something that’s wacky. Thanks again for your video and answers, its much appreciated,
Have a great week ahead.
All the best, Phil
Well done for finding her. Eleven souls have now been found and we will remember them. ❤❤
Yes, should never forget those who perished and glad that we're able to give closure to any relatives who may still remember them
Fascinating, thank you kindly for letting us tag along.
If you wouldn't mind my two cents, perhaps underdub the background music just a bit more? Just a tad too loud and therefore distracting. 🙂
Thanks for taking the time to comment and a few other people have flagged up the background music. I'll definitely make it less intrusive for future videos!
@@D33pUK And its pretty much compulsory on any RUclips video featuring the sea to use "the Final Countdown" by Europe as the background music. And, as the previous comment points out, make the music much louder. Ear splitting volume. And use an AI commentary. One that says informative things like, "this ship is a ship. Diving on the ship might be hazardous or it might not be. Diving is a recreational activity that people who like diving do." Thanks! Excellent video.
I'm going back aways now but when i was young i had a fasination with Scuba diving and even went to diving school and fell in love with it.
our instructor was very professional and we really got to know what it meant to be a diver and what you needed to know about working from depth. Unfortunately while my skills in a controlled and supervised enviornment gave me knowledge and confidence, i was ill prepared for open waters even under instruction. I remember that day well, fully kitted out and weighted up in Angelsey, my courage bolted and i wouldn't leave the boat. I was so disappointed in myself i gave up even though my instructor advised me to get past my fears and face them. I guess he saw something in me i never could.
Sorry to hear about your bad experience and we all know people who have had similar. Diving can feel really unnatural and it isn't for everyone so I wouldn't let it bother you too much.
Seems to be better condition than most 100 + year old wrecks. The wreck is nearly 400 feet down. R.I.P to the sailors lost and be safe diving 👍
Thanks very much!
The BALLS you have to have to dive like this!
Thanks - mainly training, experience and limited imagination :)
Great to see
I’d love to see an episode on how you plan these dives! ❤
Yes several other people have also asked for the same so it is on my to-do list!
Thanks for showing the dive. Good you talk about what you were doing. The repetative music got me near the end when I thought you'd find the ships name on the bow. Maybe better without it or it being very quiet. Been on The Liberty Wreck Bali several times which is about 30 mts max
Thanks for the comment and it would have been great to find the bell or something else with the name. Unfortunately the bow was very broken so if they are there then they might be buried under sand or wreckage.
Other people have also highlighted the music so I'm going to address that on future videos.
Excellent dive...well executed ...great to see new wrecks been discovered....keep up the good work...tech /rebreather diver dublin ireland
Thanks - appreciate that!
I'D never go deep wreck diving unless they had a decompression chamber up top!!!!
We all understand the risks and have spent many years honing skill/procedures to mitigate them. we're all self funded so a chamber would be prohibitively expensive.
Superb video u are a braver man than me going down there 😂 thanks for sharing this amazing video
Thanks so much for those kind words!
Not my kind of adventure...
However,❤ this expertly hosted video has perfect music and is superbly narrated.
Where's the sea life on these dives?
Like the buggers whom hunt using light. Or does spotlights scare them away🤔
👻 its October!
Thanks for the positive feedback which is really appreciated!
We normally get lots of fish life on the deep wrecks which are attracted by the lights (occasionally swim into them ......). I'm sure some of my future videos will show this!
@@D33pUK your welcome. I did see a small fish show up about three different times in your video. Never seen an ocean fish like it that I recall, and so deep a water to.
( forgive me, for I think of colorful fish when visualizing ocean aquatic life. Though, the further away from our Earth's Equator there color is mostly silvery greys, blacks, dark greens and such.
Also, as I understood from previous claims from other deep sea explorers around the British Isles there exist certain anti-human type fish whom feed on shipwreck victims.
The subject grouses me out.
However, what does such a creature look like...exactly?
How do you fellas survive around such predators of the sea?
Not that any are evil.
Just that...its a living creature accustomed to bottom feeding and devouring other living & dead creatures.
Where my interest stems from is a colorful deep ocean fish book. Creatures that are quite bizarre.and kinda fasinating...from afar. I recall pics to memory from age 12.
Or perhaps I mis-interpreted how exactly deep this wreck is.
Ballsey stuff for certain.
Glad your sharing your adventures on yt.
Unlike other videos with odd viewing angles, your adventure was fealt as a mangled wreck and if not for your expert knowledge, experience, editing & follow up comments I'd of been lost in what to expect.
Again the music choice helped me remain focused on your viewpoints of interest.
Amazing video, friends! You’ve earned yourself a sub ☕️
Thanks, I've got more videos to come which I hope you'll enjoy! Next one should be about how we tried to identify a World War One submarine lying in 85 metres
It's amazing how deep a diver can go now. French navy
@@DontCryAboutIt Yes, much deeper dives are increasingly common although very few so far offshore in temperate, tidal waters
120m! That is a LONG way down, and dark. Thank God for the strobes, but look at the amount of old net, and your buddy? Big risk of entanglement in unseen discarded fishing gear, so take care. It doesn’t take too much for a light to fail, a snare in old fishing gear, and you are in extreme danger oh so quickly. Amazing to do and see, but please, try and stay around so you can share more amazing dives 🙏🏻
Thanks for your comments. There's no doubt that this is a high risk activity but the team has a huge amount of experience in the best ways to minimising them. I plan on being around for a long time to share more videos 👍👍👍
I’ve dived with a Drager unit, but never a Buddie, and never tri-mix @@D33pUK. Do you add Helium into the circuit as you descend to drop the O2 PP, and then add extra O2 on the ascent to bring it back to 21%?
Wow, guess you’re on mixed gas, lowest I done is 55mt on air that was 20 years ago, fantastic video well done boys
Yes trimix (8/85) via a closed circuit rebreather. I've also done deep air in the past though and and am very glad there are now much better options.
@@D33pUK Thank you for that answer, I also wondered about your breathing system. I haven't dived for well over thirty years now, and the deepest I did was 50m on open circuit air. A previous commenter has mentioned the Moldavia, which was one of my favourites.
Very cool! My dad was a dive instructor for PADI years ago. I only have an advanced openwater with a wrecking diving specialty from PADI. Never learned the try mix or used a full face mask before. It's just a bit unnerving for me going that deep.
Thanks, like most other things it's about have the right kit, training, experience and people around you. I consider myself very fortunate to have those!
Excellent video real men, thanks.
Thanks although one of the divers was a lady - you can see her on the clip from the boat and she's also one of the divers you can see as I ascend!
Your yellow gloves - they're not marigolds are they, or some other special type of tough material. Thank you for the video - not something I would attempt, too risky. I done 2 dives out abroad, max 15 mtrs depth, and even then I felt a bit panicky in case something went wrong. Subscribed to the channel, love these videos as they are very interesting, thank you
Slightly thicker than Marigolds 🤣 but I love them because they stand out so well. Other divers never miss my hand signals!
I'm sure we all felt panicky the first time but, like most things, you get more confident as you do more.
Glad you enjoyed the videos & thanks for commenting
What gloves are they?@@D33pUK
That yellow pack on divers back is that a re-breather? Impressed how screens and equipment still works at that depth.
@@jonathaningram4672 Yes that's the rebreather, they're incredible pieces of technology especially given the ambient pressure which is thirteen times greater than that on the surface!
I have the bell from a dive we did 2 years ago!
Really, do tell more!
thats weird the way the stern twisted upside-down around the prop shaft without it breaking
I suspect it was broken between the engines and the props, but I didn't see that bit!
Well done your very brave to risk your life for that piece of junk , and cleaver with the lights good job 👏
Eerily fascinating!!!!! Almost as if were diving along with you! Thanx!! Just a thought, do u ever encounter leaking oils from wrecks?
No but then most of these wrecks were coal fired so oil would only have been onboard for lubricating, etc
I had forgotten to ask you about your decompression timing, how long did you have to decompress for? And was that. Underwater or after in a chamber?
Deco was approx 3.5 hours, you can see the profile towards the end of my video. We can't afford the expense of a chamber so that was all done in water!
8:06 Bloody netting, I saw that a few frames ago. Ghost gear is the scourge of the seas as it never stops fishing. I live in a small fishing village and when the season is over sometimes the government funds recovery of ghost gear, you basically go out and drag for it.
And, if I might make a suggestion, your footage and narration are strong enough on their own, I think you could skip the canned music, it's a bit distracting really, and your video would still be just as good. My gran's brother was killed when his ship (HMS Duke of Albany) was torpedoed off the Pentland Skerries in 1916, so I'm a bit of a fan of wreck dives from that era.
Thanks for the comments and a few people have picked up on the music. I've got more videos to come so will sort this on them!
Sorry about your gran's brother, not sure if you have seen that the bell has been located - lostinwatersdeep.co.uk/hms-duke-of-albany.html
@@D33pUK Hi there, yes, thanks, I've been following that story. I actually sent the divers blueprints of the ship. The photos of her are quite moving. An interesting thing came out of the Admiralty inquiry into the sinking: it was determined that some of those who died were killed when depth charges that had already been armed began to explode. They then issued a directive that depth charges were not to be armed until they were ready to be dropped. My gran's brother was James Graham, he was a fireman (a stoker). He'd been married just 6 weeks.
Absolutely unbelievable!
What a dive.
Was anything salvaged on that dive?
Nope, all still down there!
Thanks for sharing this! I knew that the second video light would go out :)
Thanks - it survived long enough though so I had a great dive!
I'm afraid I don't have the nerve to do this kind of thing. Did Scuba many years ago, but the idea of diving into the deep pitch black still sends a shiver up my spine. I assume there's a protocol that stops you wiping away silt to look for serial numbers and that sort of thing?
No protocol but cleaning concretion is very hard work and not something to be done at that depth!
Thanks for including us on this dive. Sketchy! But so glad you did it! (Is that my imagination or at 13:54 is that a big halibut laying on the sand (head and half the body - looking left to right) - sort of at nine o'clock low?
We do see them quite a lot of dives like this but I think that might be a bit of wreckage?
That telegraph would have had a lift bag attached 🤣
It's 120 metres deep so that would need a lot of gas!
@@D33pUK messenger line on a bag then 🤣 it would be coming up one way or another
1:50 What’s on the tag you left on the lazy shot? I’m picturing it is a cold water wreck version of a cave cookie you guys use in your region.
Yes, it's just a bit of plastic with my name on. On the ascent, the last person to remove their tag also releases the lazy shot so we can drift with the current!
@ awesome! Thanks for explaining. For me there is always something new to learn, and I love that about diving.
Wow, 3 hours of deco!! Hope you've got a good undersuit, that's a long time hanging about in the sea
Top quality drysuit and undersuit combined with an electric vest!
That prusik seems wrong. Did you try to attach your strobes with a prusik too or why did they slip? Great video, thank you!
The strobes didn't slip, what happened was the current reduced which meant that the shot wasn't as taut as when I put them on it. This caused the rope to fall to the seabed, and my strobes with them
@@D33pUKah of course, on a 120+m line, this comes into play. Thanks for you answer!
@@CraftingDepths No problems at all!
Wasn't it Mel Fisher who cut a window into a surfboard and then paddled around the reefs and beaches until he found Atocha gold? Teddy Tucker? Kip Wagner? 🤔🤔
One of those guys glued a plate of glass in a surfboard and meandered around the beaches and reefs all day. ☺
I mean short of beachcombing with a metal detector what better way to look for it? 🤗
I love the video, it is like diving yourself.
The music is a thing that just about kills it for me, it is very numbing and monotone. No offence meant, but if I don't mention it then it will go on and on and never get understood.
I always wonder about why there has to be accompanying music that takes the fun out of the video. It is almost always way to loud. But you at least fade it when you narrate, it's the only reason I finished watching it. Video, well done, music;.. needs to be in the background, not the main feature, sorry.
Thanks so much for taking the time to comment and I value your feedback on the music. I don't think anyone would be interested in listening to me for the whole video so feel that I need something to cover the gaps. Getting royalty free music is difficult (licenses, etc) but I'll see if I can get something a bit better for future ones!
@@D33pUK
Don’t have ANY. 👍🏻🙏
Great video. Can't get over the quick decompression time. We used to spend up to three days in the decompression chamber from dives to 150-160 meters, admittedly we were working out of diving bells and did much longer bottom times, still seems quick though. What gas mix were you using?
Our diving uses a very different approach to saturation diving and I'm pretty certain we accept a higher risk of getting bent that you would have experienced. Having said that we've all done lots of similar dives without any major issues
My diluent was 10 % Oxygen and 85% Helium, the rebreather then mixes it with 100% oxygen to create a mix with an oxygen partial pressure of 1.3 bar. On decompression stops this increases to 1.5 bar - you can see me changing it in the video
Ships are such complexities of formed and bracketed steel beams. Wrecks excite me, but always are a bit sad when one considers the hours of design and then construction, technical operation, and then destruction. We humans waste our best capabilities.
Absolutely, imagine what HMS Marmora would have looked like in its prime!
Please do another short vid about which way to support you. I am already do Patreon via my PC
Where you using tri mix when diving the wreck and how much decompresstion stops did you need and how much time you have on the wreck
@grahamlane1313 Yes I dived with 8/85 trimix diluent for this dive. Right towards the end of the video you can see my profile from the dive computer but I left bottom at approx minute 24, first decompression stop was at 66 metres and I got out of the water after about 4 hours!
@@D33pUK oh wow when i used to dive i was on compressed air only went down to 15meters .so you must been in very good dry suit else you would foze
Wow ! 25 - my limit ! 😂
We all started off shallow!
120 meters is deep. Trimix? Heliox?
@@zapfanzapfan Closed circuit rebreather with 8/80 trimix diluent
Great ausome to watch, but the music is frying my brain
Yes, quite a few people have made the same point. I no longer put music on my videos so you have to listen to my voice instead 😉
A really interesting video with a great conclusion but spoiled by the repetitive background "music".
Thanks and someone else picked up on that as well. I've got some other videos coming out so will look at the music more carefully!
7.21 mins head and spine?
@@kurttaz Very unlikely for anything organic to survive that long. I think what you've spotted is rope/fishing gear
The next step would be to send an underwater robot , called ROV , to photograph the wreck from one end to the other, in order to create a 3D model, because unfortunately, it looks more like a collapsed tangle of steel structures , than the wreck of a cruise ship, it must be said that over time, corrosion has done its work, in addition to a priori fishing vessels which have hung their nets on it.
Great vid. Non-diver here. How on earth do you cope with the water pressure at a depth of 120m? Cheers.
Thanks for commenting. The human body has no issue with a pressure of 13 times atmospheric which is what you experience down there. You just have to clear your ears and make sure the gas you breath is at ambient pressure so lungs etc don't collapse!
@@D33pUK Cheers for the explanation. Still not sure I'd fancy it though. I take my hat off to you guys.
Would you not prefer to do this in some mini sub? 3.5 hours deco.. Thats a lot for 20 mins.
Yes I would but unfortunately I don't have access to one!
Pls accept as a genuine query but Is it common practice to tie strobes using a prussic knot? maybe a alpine butterfly in main drop which would be 100% fixed, the french prussic is created to slide enabling descending and ascending and only locks when under load,if those strobes drop in a group(depending neg/pos/neu buoyancy)then they'll probably be out of sight as would if they went up the main line to surface?
No problems at all and always pleased to respond to questions!
The lazy shot is attached with a prussic whereas the strobes are attached using bungee that wraps round the shot line. The bungee didn't actually move on the line. What happened is that the tension in the shot line reduced (less tide) and the weight of the strobes attached by other divers meant that more of it sunk to the bottom. That's why my strobes ended up in the wreck!
@@D33pUK thnx 👍
It's crazy how badly damaged that ship isfrom the sinking snd time underwater
@@johnsepulveda443 Absolutely, time isn't kind to them
All that effort and let down by dodgy torches,,,, back UP...
As fascinating as the dive video is, the music was a distraction! Nonetheless, well done to the divers. 🙉👍🏻🙏
Thanks for commenting and lots of other people have mentioned the music. I've got some more videos coming out soon and won't repeat the same mistake!
what were you breathing?
My diluent was 8% oxygen and 85% helium
Not many fish and quite a lot of net.
You're right there weren't may fish down there which is unusual as we normally see lots on these wrecks. Lots of nets are just a hazard we get used too!
I've dived many times on sewers, new pipelines, pilling, and other stuff. I've never heard music. It spoils the whole vlog, and I'm afraid it's ruined it for me, so I'm gone.
@bazra19 Sorry to hear that you don't like the music and a few other people have made a similar point. Because of this none of my more recent videos have any music!
Was ein Aufwand und Gefahr für diesen Anblick 😢
Are you using rebreathers for this dive?
The ship is a mess, was it depth charged or blasted at some stage?
Thanks
Yes everyone was diving with Closed Circuit Rebreathers, mainly AP Inspirations although also two JJs.
The wreck is definitely well broken although it's difficult to say what the cause was. 100 years being battered by winter storms certainly won't have helped!
@@D33pUKI remember in the early 80s being told that it would never work when I said that someone would combine a rebreather (at that time 'oxygen rebreather' & limited to 33 feet (10 metres) with a gas chromatograph. Then gas sampling in car engines came along & now we have closed circuit rebreathers of the type that you use with all the advantages that brings.
So my interpretation is that you’re NOT wearing Rolex Submariner - the dive watch of choice…….
I’m gutted for you
Nope but very happy to do if someone lends me one!
Use better rope to secure the shot line and strobe. Never let go of your decent - accent line!
Piss poor bailout dude.
No bailout going on during this dive!
my oh my .... you do not seem very well prepared for deep diving ! your lights don't work well and your worried about losing a lousy strobe light
The music is sooo unnecessary
Yes, lots of people have said the same, unfortunately I can't remove it :(
The background racket (music) totally unnecessary and a distraction 👎🏼
Thanks for the feedback and sorry you didn't like it - message received for future ones!
Can't understand a word the narrator is saying. Heavy accent and poor pronunciation spoil what could have been a great video.
With a few idiosyncrasies I have a pretty standard English (as in from England) accent. Subtitles are available if that doesn't work for you!
The music ruined this for me 👎👎👎
And this is how we lose divers
Like many other activities, diving carries an element of risk. Of course that increases with depth but the team who did this dive are some of the most experienced and competent technical divers in the country (and arguably the world).
@@D33pUK if that was the case the strobes would be secured properly lights and all gear would be double checked before the dive
@@dpointe7467 The strobes dropped down because the tension on the shot line reduced after I'd fixed them so more of it ended up coiled on the wreck. It occasionally happens.
Lights were checked and were fine on the surface. Thirteen bar of pressure sometimes causes kit to fail!
Why did i even stop here to look at this booring crap ? Lesson learned . 🤮🤮👎👎👎👎