Diving photos and a wreck history

[Harry25]

Scottish Dives

Firstly I don't dive too often in Scotland as water is a bit cold. First photos are of the Russian Factory ship Kartli which was hit by a freak wave off Islay four people were killed and forty seven rescued. The ship eventually drifted on to Gigha. There's not much left to see apart from one of the masts still protruding from the water. The other photos are from St Abbs on the east coast which is a marine nature reserve.

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This is a wolf fish at St Abbs its pretty rare to see and are an endangered species.

 

[Targa50]

Thank You for the stunning images , really interesting!

 

[Powersalt]

Just got back from Barbados yesterday. Already missing sea, sun and pina ciladas

 

[Harry25]

Crete

Only dived a couple of dives hence only a couple of phtos. I didn't realise until I looked at them that I had a photo of a seahorse. Seems they have been following me around.

Octopus hiding in the rocks.

 

[Harry25]

Gozo

The first photos are of the P26 originally an East German U boat used by the Maltese Navy and subsequently deliberately sunk to be used as a dive site in 25m of water.

 

[BartW]

some nice and interesting pics Harry,
thanks for posting,

are you sure that is a U boat ? looks more like a patrol boat (didn't google her name, so I could be wrong

you win the price for "most creative method of posting pictures on here"
if it wasn't a little hide and seek

if its not intentionally done, you could make the size of the pictures smaller (on the webside where you upload them)
and place a "return" after each link when you paste them in the post.

this thread is a nice dive destination catalog

 

[Harry25]

BartW you are correct it is a patrol boat. See here http://www.divernet.com/Wrecks/wrecks_general/198513/top_wrecks_of_malta_gozo.html

New to photobucket so will follow your instructions. I havn't got any photos of Maldives just dive boat so its your turn! Next set will be barrier reef.

 

[BartW]

I havn't got any photos of Maldives just dive boat so its your turn!

the work has been done last year, so here your are:

http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?t=270818

 

[AndieMac]

Some fantastic shots there Harry.....what's going on in the pics 5 and 6 up from the bottom of your last posting, they look like x-rays?

 

[Harry25]

Its some sort of remains from a jellyfish it could have been alive I don't know. It was being eaten by the small fish but they moved away when I got closer. Never seen anything like that before, but I'm sure someone else will have more knowledge than I about it.

 

[Harry25]

Egypt Sharm El Sheikh

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This a Lionfish which has very venomous spines. They were introduced by mistake into the Caribbean. They have no predators and are killing all the small fish. I was told that in the Bahamas you get 10$ for each one caught. One diver apparently speared one and removed it with his bare hands. Got stung immediately surfaced and jumped onto the dive boat without touching the sides, and was sick for the next four hours, His hand was extrmely swollen and didn't go down for four days.

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This and the next two photos are from the cargo ship Jolanda. The Jolanda was on a voyage from Piraeus to Aqaba with a general cargo including toilets, wash basins, bath tubs, a BMW 320 motor car (apparently belonging to the captain), aluminium, plastic sheeting and several containers of general goods.

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[BartW]

Verry nice pictures Harry,
Jolanda reef on Ras Mohamed,
one of the most famous dive spots on the globe !
was there in 2005.

Have you dived on the Thistlegorm ? probably the most famous and most dived wreck on the globe.
We dived that wreck at sunrise, (our boat was anchered on the wreck the evening before)
and when we finshed our dive 40 minutes later, we had to search and make sure we picked the correct boat as there were so many of them moored along us, in that short period of time

 

[Harry25]

Verry nice pictures Harry,
Jolanda reef on Ras Mohamed,
one of the most famous dive spots on the globe !
was there in 2005.

Have you dived on the Thistlegorm ? probably the most famous and most dived wreck on the globe.
We dived that wreck at sunrise, (our boat was anchered on the wreck the evening before)
and when we finshed our dive 40 minutes later, we had to search and make sure we picked the correct boat as there were so many of them moored along us, in that short period of time

Didn't dive the Thistlegorm as we were staying at Sharm, and from memory due to the distance it was an all day trip so didn't go. Would like to go back again but SWMBO didn't like it.

 

[AndieMac]

Nice pics Harry, especially the clarity in the last one.

Did you say you had some of the Great Barrier Reef?

 

[Harry25]

Barrier Reef

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This and the next photo is of a Wobbegong shark. Its like all sharks not really dangerous, having said that whilst I was in Sydney a swimmer was bitten by one.
I think he stood on it!

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[Harry25]

More Barrier Reef

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This and the next three photos are of a Blotched Fantail Stingray. When I saw it I dived towards it, and it turned and flicked its tail towards me. Before Steve Irwins death I had no ideal that they were dangerous. Ignorance is bliss.

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[Harry25]

I should have said click on photo for video. I have no ideal why the fish were attracted to that piece of coral or why they were taking bites out of it.

 

[AndieMac]

Thanks again Harry, you certainly get around when you go on holiday.

When you did the Great Barrier Reef, which port did you leave from, it's spread a long way between Cooktown and Rockhampton?

 

[Harry25]

Thanks again Harry, you certainly get around when you go on holiday.

When you did the Great Barrier Reef, which port did you leave from, it's spread a long way between Cooktown and Rockhampton?

I went to Australia in Feb 2010 planing different locations, one of which was Brisbane for a week so I could go further north and do some diving. I booked hotels and flights with Quantas six months before I went, but one of my wife's cousins was discovered living in Sydney. I could not amend my flights bearing in my mind we were flying all over the place ten flights in all. So we arranged a internal flight down from Brisbane to Sydney.This altered my plans as you cannot take a flight safely until 24 hours after you last dive. So I went to a dive shop in Brisbane, and said can you take me to the Barrier Reef and they replied that we can take you to the fringes. So I went in a large boat from Scarborough harbour with about twenty divers. The location of my two dives was Flinders Reef. The water temp was 27c same as Barbados.

 

[Bojangles]

Harry, your images are amazing, it is incredible when you have to study some of these pictures to see the creatures with their camouflage. I have always wondered, when at depth and you come across something like a ray, is there not a risk of getting a fright and surfacing too quickly?