Somerset Divers Forum

[BrianS]

This wreck lies just 15 minutes rib ride from Teignmouth. Teign divers run regular trips to the site. Today the mist refused to rise on the journey out; Keith (Hills) and I plus 4 others. One of the other divers (Linda) turned out to be someone who I spent a lot of Monday evenings with in the 90's studying together for our Masters degrees and who I hadn't seen for about 10 years.

The wreck is shallow - about 18m but has been salvaged in part to stop it being a hazard to shipping. It hit a mine in 1917 carrying a cargo which iuncluded cement - there are lots of hardened cement cylinders where the encasing drums have corroded leaving the hardened cement interiors intact.

Although well broken there are lots of bits to look in,through, over and under. Lots of bib, pollack and wrasse, more John Dory than I've seen on a single site and plenty of crabs and large lobster.

Not the greatest wreck dive going but a nice easy dive, enlivened on our visit by a bit of a drift, within just a short boat trip from Teignmouth.

Second dive was to a site just off the shore to the west of Teignmouth called Black Rock. On the face of it just a bog standard second dive reef but it houses lots and lots of dogfish and bull huss and if you head out onto the mud/sand bed there are loads of scallop. We filled a boat bag in just a few minutes.