Expeditions
 To explore and find new wrecks is a passion we believe in. These don’t have to be in extreme depths – although most shallow wrecks have been well dived and unfortunately well plundered!
North Wales and around Anglesey enjoys an eclectic of wrecks and many of these are in the 30m range and very few have been thoroughly researched and dived. The same is broadly true about the coastal and littoral waters around the UK. We have a particular interest in Newquay for the many wrecks that are unfortunately in the more difficult and challenging depths of 60m to 100m. It is this particular depth range that we have developed our skills and diving techniques to find and dive these new wrecks.
With this level of diving comes a set of skills, mindset and discipline that must not be embarked upon lightly and without a solid foundation in skills and diving experience. We are very disciplined in the planning, preparation, equipment, our own health, hydration and physiology to embark upon such diving to achieve good solid goals. We continue in our Library to add information to help with your diving and advancement, there is also a useful section on exploration.
We have dived extensively in and out of Scapa Flow and it is with great sadness that over the last decade we (and I’m sure many of you), have seen these fantastic wrecks decay before our very eyes. I am pleased that these are still diveable and offer a great foundation of 20 to 48m diving experience. Likewise the English Channel has a plethora of ship wrecks and indeed some very stunning submarines. Oban though is still a firm favourite training site and all due respect is given to Mike and his excellent facilities and team at Puffin Diving.
The English Channel does have some very stunning wrecks in the 50m to 80m mark and as such are likewise explored by us. Remember and respect many of these sites have been the result of battle or fusillade and people may have died as a result. Check the Protection Status of a wreck before your dive and ensure your plans are altered to respect such.
Given the usual workload and issues of the extensive planning and preparation we do for each set of very deep dives we undertake only a maximum of 6 expeds per year in addition to our many trips. Please feel free to Contact Us for more information about this work. You may see these in NITROX, sportDiver or Diver Magazine from time to time.
Frontier is a leading exploration, conservation and field project work society - you may be interested to see what they do with links from our Library page(s) on this and other aspects of Frontier.
In 2008 we will be running the following expeditions (See our research sites and links for more background information):
- Battle of Jutland 50 to 80msw Wreck tour (out of respect to our hero’s of the day)
- Wick 80 to 100msw Wreck tour (more details on what we are looking for to follow)
- Scapa Flow – The raised scuttled fleet 30 to 62msw – what’s in the scours – we have all of the exact locations/GPS marks (lots of huge masts etc)
- Glenart Castle – in 90msw – Hospital ship of WW1. HMHS Rewa is another WW1 hospital ship in 60msw which we have also been exploring over the years (off Newquay)
We are currently researching the possible applications to dive and viability of such projects to dive the following in 2008/2009:
- SS Buitenzorg 92msw this is located near the mouth of the Sound of Mull in the gorge at 103msw
- SS Minnehaha 90msw this and the Malmanger 65msw are out of the IRELAND - Baltimore
- HMS Dasher 131msw this is located in the Lower Clyde in 170msw between Ardrossan and Arran
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