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>Steve, do you guys know in advance what these wrecks are? You must find >some things that have been "lost" since the WW's . Most of the regularly dived wrecks are well known and it's possible to have 20 RIBs dropping divers on a wreck like, say the James Egan Layne out of Plymouth on a summer weekend. It's still a good dive. However, a lot of clubs, especially coastal ones, do their own wreck detective work, using Admiralty records, Lloyds Register records and from fishermen who may have caught their nets in the vicinity of the last sighting of a sinking ship. The Resurgam, the world's first machine powered submarine, was found this way a few years back, and less important wrecks are found all the time. Some clubs will have their own magnetometer which helps a lot in finding new wrecks, others just dive where they see an obstruction on the sounder in the right area. This happens a hell of a lot towards the SE of England and up the east coast, and once a wreck is found, clubs are extremely secretive about their marks or coordinates. They will often buy wrecks if they are very good with lots of non-ferrous. The Maine and the Kyarra are examples of this. Last year my club dived off Normandy, Northern France, and the skipper had photo albums of divers coming up from dives with tons of booty, from wrecks that he had just literally run over and spotted on the sonar. They didn't know what most of the wrecks were, they had just been there for years and years waiting to be found. He put us on a wreck which he thought had only been dived once before ever, by him, he didn't know what she was, it was some kind of WWI armed coaster with a small deck gun in 30m-great dive. We ate lobster every day in Normandy as they just wandered around in the open on the wrecks, not being used to divers. The Lobsters on the English side of the channel are more wily, although you regularly catch them over here too. 4lb would be a good size here. Other good catches here are scallops, crabs and flatfish, harpoons aren't legal with scuba. Steve >> Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >> Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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