The Gannis D, Ulysses and The Barge.

The usual pattern was awake at 5.30am (thanks to Susie's knock on the cabin door and a cheery "Morning!"), briefing at 6am, dive, breakfast, chill, briefing at 10.30am, dive, lunch, rest, briefing at 2.30pm, dive, tea and cake, chill, briefing and then night dive, dinner, a couple of beers and then in bed just after 9pm, sleep. Then repeat. 

It was tough but someone had to do it.

The pre-breakfast dive on the Saturday was the Giannis D which was a Greek cargo ship bound for Jeddah in Saudi Arabia with a cargo of timber. She hit the reef and went down in 1983. I did a penetration into the engine room with Jon Browne with Andy leading as he had dived this wreck before. Plenty of super structure to swim around with the U-shaped crane and the funnel very visible. Heavy swell at the end of the dive.

The second dive of the day was on the Ulysses and the zodiacs dropped us well up current from the wreck. Negative entry and straight down into the current to drift onto the wreck. Current is that strong that most of us have minimal time on the wreck and we drift off and enjoy floating past the reef. Back in the RIB we discover that John's Dad Bob has hurt his knee getting back into the boat and that is him off diving for the rest of the week as it turns out. Bloody shame!

After lunch we are moored right above the wreck of The Barge off Gubal Island. We have two dives here, the first at 3pm and then a night dive at 6pm. Two great shallow dives with a maximum of 16m on the day dive. A broken up wreck but with plenty of life on her. Very busy though with other divers!