Refreshing to see something so different, amazing report & photos ! 
RoRo ferry Zenobia, Cyprus - IMAGE INTENSIVE.
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Thanks for all your lovely comments folks.
It wasn't bad actually, even inside the wreck there was a lot of natural light. The car decks were positively stygian though and quite disturbing. As we swam along we would flick a torch beam downwards occasionally and see huge piles of vehicles, and every time it was different. But without the torch you were in effect just swimming along above a black abyss.
It wasn't bad actually, even inside the wreck there was a lot of natural light. The car decks were positively stygian though and quite disturbing. As we swam along we would flick a torch beam downwards occasionally and see huge piles of vehicles, and every time it was different. But without the torch you were in effect just swimming along above a black abyss.
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I'd love to see what cars there are in there.
Well that's a bit different
Cracking pics and write up
Cracking pics and write up
OMG!!!! AWESOME SHOTS!!! No sec about then??? Now that really does look serious fun!!! Always wanted to do that since i was a kid but never had the chance....im running the bath rite now! Im soooo jealous, no really i f@&%* am!! PROPER!
Hope ur feeling a lot better now after your last mishap with water!
Now that really does look serious fun!!! Always wanted to do that since i was a kid but never had the chance....im running the bath rite now! Im soooo jealous, no really i f@&%* am!! PROPER!Hope ur feeling a lot better now after your last mishap with water!
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Thank you all for such lovely feedback!
To be honest Shane this is not a trip we did particularly recently as in this year, I just did the report this week. We've got several sets of dive pix so there's no shortage of potential reports lurking in my little red log books.
Thanks, yes on the mend now I think! Very kind of you to say.
I used to "swim" up and down the stairs with a Fairy Liquid bottle strapped to my back and a rubber tube running to my mouth when I was 5 apparently so it's something I always wanted to do as well though I didn't start until my 21st. birthday 'cos I thought spec wearers couldn't dive.
Secca was conspicuously absent at that site, not sure why! Having said that there's a supposedly true story of a bunch of pykey divers (yes they nick metal under water too) who spent several hours over a few dives prepping one of the propellors on the Hampshire which is Lord Kitchener's grave site and hence not supposed to be dived, up there off Lerwick Head by Scapa Flow. Eventually they blew it off and lifted it up to the surface only to find the Coast Guard and police sitting patiently there waiting for them having
arrested their support boat crew first! The prop is now on the dock at Lyness Naval Base Museum on Hoy.
The cars on the car deck were badly crushed underneath wagons as I recall and apart from that egg wagon on the seabed I don't recall any wagons with intact cab structures either. THis is really wierd now and you've got us both thinking so we'll go watch the video we took and see! To be honest I'm not totally surprised at the lapse in memory though. I think I mentioned in the answer about dive gases that partial amnesia is not uncommon with onset Nitrogen Narcosis and the swimn through in the car deck was close to the deepest point of the dive. Add the darkness and apprehension to the high nityrogen partial pressure and you've got the perfect recipe for a dose of narcs! It's that or Alzheimers anyway!
As always a good report and good pics how do you get the time to do everything,
To be honest Shane this is not a trip we did particularly recently as in this year, I just did the report this week. We've got several sets of dive pix so there's no shortage of potential reports lurking in my little red log books.
No sec about then???
Hope ur feeling a lot better now after your last mishap with water!
Thanks, yes on the mend now I think! Very kind of you to say.
I used to "swim" up and down the stairs with a Fairy Liquid bottle strapped to my back and a rubber tube running to my mouth when I was 5 apparently so it's something I always wanted to do as well though I didn't start until my 21st. birthday 'cos I thought spec wearers couldn't dive.
Secca was conspicuously absent at that site, not sure why! Having said that there's a supposedly true story of a bunch of pykey divers (yes they nick metal under water too) who spent several hours over a few dives prepping one of the propellors on the Hampshire which is Lord Kitchener's grave site and hence not supposed to be dived, up there off Lerwick Head by Scapa Flow. Eventually they blew it off and lifted it up to the surface only to find the Coast Guard and police sitting patiently there waiting for them having
arrested their support boat crew first! The prop is now on the dock at Lyness Naval Base Museum on Hoy.
The cars on the car deck were badly crushed underneath wagons as I recall and apart from that egg wagon on the seabed I don't recall any wagons with intact cab structures either. THis is really wierd now and you've got us both thinking so we'll go watch the video we took and see! To be honest I'm not totally surprised at the lapse in memory though. I think I mentioned in the answer about dive gases that partial amnesia is not uncommon with onset Nitrogen Narcosis and the swimn through in the car deck was close to the deepest point of the dive. Add the darkness and apprehension to the high nityrogen partial pressure and you've got the perfect recipe for a dose of narcs! It's that or Alzheimers anyway!
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NOW THATS WHAT I CALL EXPLORING!!!!!
LUV IT! ya lucky bas@%$ds!!
much better than your last experience in water a??? Hope your feeling a lot better mate
LUV IT! ya lucky bas@%$ds!!
much better than your last experience in water a??? Hope your feeling a lot better mate
Great pics TJF. Just a point of information on Ro-Ro's like this one; the one way circular traffic management system was quite common on Scandinavian built ships of the time .Several of the Stena Line/B&I/Irish Ferries ships that were Scandinavian built had it - I remember a partticularly amusing incident in which I saw two deckhands racing around one such car deck in a pair of Renault 5s - hilarious! The main advantage of such a system was that the ferry did not have to turn round to discharge, but could rather just come alongside. This was quite important running in and out of the Greek islands - especially in places like Thessalonika, where the Ro-ro might have to just slip in between a couple of cruisers.
A the merchant marine....those were the days!
Godzy
A the merchant marine....those were the days!
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Spectacular report - makes me wish I'd learned to swim all those years ago! (when my uncle used to take me to the BSAC a rebreather was a bag on your chest with a little O2 bottle on and strictly for for the Navy but that was about 1966!)
crackin pics and a great report
makes me wish I had kept up with doing my PADI after knocking it on the head after 2 lessons cos i was skint a few years ago
makes me wish I had kept up with doing my PADI after knocking it on the head after 2 lessons cos i was skint a few years ago
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Thanks for your kind comments fellas...
That's right! And it was when I started too! And the closest we got to mixed gas was a night out on Guiness and Party Eggs...
Never too late to start again. I packed in about 1988 and re-started in 1995 going all "technical" in the process.
That's right! And it was when I started too! And the closest we got to mixed gas was a night out on Guiness and Party Eggs...
Never too late to start again. I packed in about 1988 and re-started in 1995 going all "technical" in the process.
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"Eggs at the bottom of the sea" well you see something new everyday!
Great report using your epic skills, thanks for sharing.
Great report using your epic skills, thanks for sharing.
