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Special thanks to Oceanic Quest and the team @ Brunei, also to William Tan to arrange this trip. also meet new friends over there Chen Dexiang, Sin Hwa also one funny guy Edo Ang...Great dive....
When the tide goes out at Berrow, near Burnham-On-Sea, the bones of a long dead ship stick out of the sands as a stark reminder of a savage gale and a gallant rescue at the end of the last century.
It all started during the first days of March 1897 when a howling south westerly gale swept up the Bristol Channel, bringing with it high seas, driving snow and sleet.
Many ships soon found themselves in distress, among them the Norwegian barque SS Nornen which had tried out to ride out the storm in the lee of the Lundy Roads but had found her anchors dragging. She was being driven towards Berrow mud flats. The crew desperately tied to save her, but were fighting a losing cause.
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I bought a Wreck This Journal (box set with Mess and This Is Not A Book). I started on this one first. I actually scratched this page with a spork. I thought I'd make it more interesting.
Trail 6 at University of British Columbia takes you about 75m downhill to a stretch along the Pacific Ocean named Wreck Beach. I didn't find out, whether they named this place for shallow waters ashore and ships wrecking on that particular stretch of the shore all the time. Whatever - it didn't look all that wrecked to me. Despite temperatures that most people would regard as pretty chilly and not exactly suited for any water action, the beach was brimming with students and skimboard surfers populating the sandy beach. I've talked to some of the skimboard surfers and got to take images of them in action, which will follow next.
Without the big camera, couldn't blur out the background. Still, this way, you get to read about the Good Housekeeping Award.
Helmet, gas mask, rifle, shoe pieces aboard the "Helmet Wreck" - an unidentified Japanese wreck from WW2.
Vieux Camion abandonné dans la Foret de pradines.
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The wheel wreck represents the remains of a mid 19th century sailing vessel. The site is characterised by a mound of cargo that consists of mining equipment, mainly pipes, rising mains and clack valves associated with pumping, sheave wheels, drive wheels and boiler tubes. The identity of the vessel is the subject of ongoing research.
© Crown copyright, photo taken by Wessex Archaeology
The story goes back in 1980 when a boat was trying to illegally smuggle cigarettes and alcohol in Greece. The Greek navy chased the boat through the Ionian sea and due to the stormy weather it ran aground on the coast to the north of the island where you can find it nowadays
In 1902 the dry dock was being towed from London, England to Durban, SA when it broke free during a storm and washed up along the Garden Route coast. It's pretty much only accessible during low tides, walking about 45 minutes from Glentana.
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The Chikuzen Wreck lies 13 or so miles northwest of Virgin Gorda and is one of the best dives I have done. Huge schools of grunts and snapper cover the reef as well as dozens of huge amberjack and almaco jacks and perhaps hundreds of great barracuda.
One of the wrecks - the image tag says Gubal Island but I suspect that might not be corect - anybody know?
This image was taken with a Canon Ixus 105 (the most basic p/s model in the Ixus line) and a jerry-rigged external strobe after my SLR housing flooded on the 2nd day of the trip. (I should also mention the happy ending here since I have been getting a lot of flickr condolences: everything was insured)
Meanwhile, I was both surprised and pleased with some of the results I was able to get with the little Ixus Franken-rig.
A wreck of a fishing boat which is still located were it stranded in GrindavÃk. Luckily nobody died but there has been casulties several years ago. This is just back part of the ship