Sat dives
Dived the Gwladmena this morning. The vis is clear but the water dark with the lack of sunlight. This wreck is very reminisent of the Thesis in the sound of Mull, about the same size and shape but lies deeper with a seabed depth of 40. The two boilers are very distinctive as are the deck winches that have now corroded thru and sit in the hull itself. The prop has gone.
Dived the Lunokhods pm. She lies in the gully at the base of the Kirkabister light having dragged her anchor in a storm on 9th November 1993. There is a very distinctive picture on the cover of Bob Baird’s book (ISBN 9781841582337). I actually avoided the wreck, having dived it before, instead expolring the gully that runs perpendicular to the cliffs. The waters here ara superbly rich in life with an abundance of flora and fauna that made the drop shear pleasure despite the lack of metal.
