Alaunia - Out of Eastbourne with Dive 125 April 23, 2006
Posted by Mark Gilmour in : Dive Reports, UK diving , add a commentThis is great, in the sea, twice in a week. After a very nice weekend at Easter Janos from YD had organised a trip out of Eastbourne with Dive 125. The plan was to dive the Alaunia, a 520 foot Cunard liner that struck a mine returning to London from New York in 1916. Today she lies sitting 8-12m proud of the 36m sand and shingle seabed.
Our boat for the day was the Our W, formally of Weymouth but now of Eastbourne and under the command of Dave & Sylvie Ronnan. We were to meet the boat at Sovereign North Harbour which sits protected and secluded behind locks affording a nice level platform when loading and unloading kit from the boat. The downside is that you have to wait for the locks to open/close which happen half hourly during off peak times. We were informed to be ready for loading at 10.15am and ropes off at 10.30am (more…)
Kyarra @ Easter A day diving in Swanage April 17, 2006
Posted by Mark Gilmour in : Dive Reports, UK diving , 2commentsFinally back in the sea. After having 6 sea dives canned this year so far I finally made it into the sea and a very nice introduction to 2006 it was. Ian (airassisted from YD) and I had arranged for him and his family to come down and visit for the weekend and while he was down he and I could escape off for a days diving on the south coast. There is an awful lot of choice down here and I just love it. We were debating between Portland doing the Salsette, Portsmouth doing U1195 and Swanage doing Kyarra. After much deliberation we decided on Kyarra with Martin & Pat from Swanage Bay Charters. (more…)
