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We also had a change to the dive centre and accommodation this year thanks to help from Sam Wood. We used the perfectly situated Mount Batten Centre as our base with their pontoon for the boats. In Deep Dive Centre is also on-site and they did a marvellous job keeping us supplied with air and Nitrox. The advance crew travelled done early Friday morning to get on dive in on The Scylla before everyone else arrived on Friday night - some as late as midnight. Saturday's dive were The Persier where we had up to 10 metre visibility, followed by the beautiful Hilsea Point in the afternoon. The visibility on The Rosehill on Sunday was a bit different from The Persier with only 4 metres maximum but a few congers will still spotted. The atmospheric James Eagan Layne was the dive site for Sunday afternoon. Sam, Lea, Kyle and I dropped onto the bow and then swam the full length to the broken stern and then headed off on a bearing to find the actual stern which lies 10m off to the south west. I would thoroughly recommend a visit to this part of the wreck; a fascinating multi level dive with a rounded and toothed ring on the seabed which is part of the traverse mechanism for the stern gun-mount. The wind picked up on the Monday so a visit out to Hands Deep was called off and we ran out to The Scylla again instead. A few of us lost our breakfast on this day - it was a bit lumpy to say the least. A nice quiet bimble off Penlee Point for most of us saw the end of another great weekend at Plymouth. Thanks again to the skippers and the staff at In Deep.
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