Excellent Undersea Video of Morecambe Bay

[JimC]

Being based at Glasson and sailing out of the R. Lune, Morecambe Bay is my backyard, but I've never seen it from this perspective- and hope not to!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSt9MWhe_HE&feature=player_embedded

 

[ValleyForge]

Fascinating stuff, good find Jim. Maybe Fleetwood would make a good sub base when Scotland becomes independent !

 

[Lakesailor]

I'd love to see the bottom of Windermere in the same way.

 

[IRC Kevin]

Great link, Jim.

I'd love to see the bottom of Windermere in the same way.

The bottom of Windermere is anything but flat and boring. I'll be doing a three dimensional model when I've finished scanning all the Lake sometime over the next few years. But for now, just some side scan sonar stills with first, a bit of geography.

And now for a bit of history.

This what Elfin looked like in better days.

 

[Lakesailor]

They reckon there is a graveyard of scuppered 17ft Class yachts off White Cross Bay area where it's deep.
The owners had new ones built regulalrly and didn't want anyone buying the old ones and creating opposition.

 

[IRC Kevin]

They reckon there is a graveyard of scuppered 17ft Class yachts off White Cross Bay area where it's deep.
The owners had new ones built regulalrly and didn't want anyone buying the old ones and creating opposition.

I certainly know that some rotten ones were sunk behing Belle Isle. There is of course this one off Wray Castle that sunk in a race. Sail is still up.

 

[Lakesailor]

You're going to have to get some very fancy software to convert all this into a 3d relief map like the Morecambe Bay vid.

I have a better and larger version of that pic of Elfin. I'll find it for you.

 

[IRC Kevin]

You're going to have to get some very fancy software to convert all this into a 3d relief map like the Morecambe Bay vid.

I have a better and larger version of that pic of Elfin. I'll find it for you.

Dr Depth will do the 3-D mapping, but haven't bought it yet. Would appreciate another Elfin picture. Shame it was scuttled, but have a few more steam launch wrecks plotted and another one on my list of things to search for.