While we continue to be hampered by the weather we are checking out charts going back through thirty years of diving. We are on the hunt for a particular wreck which we may have already dived without realising. The chart pictured shows the state of play in the late nineties, everywhere you see writing we have dived. This year’s chart is somewhat more detailed and when you look at all the marks the tendency is to think just about everything has been found, how wrong you would be. With the odd exception i.e. about two all these wrecks post date 1860. The amount of ships that sank between Roman times and 1860 are many fold more, so what happened to them all? In reality many are lost forever however from our experience wrecks dating from the early 17th century are still there readily detectable and waiting to be discovered. As an example of how things have changed back in about 93 I put a very well known diver on an old wooden wreck mid channel. On surfacing his comment was "What a pile of shit!"
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