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Day 2
We moved to a large steel fishing boat, similar in design to the first one, but with a bigger area at the stern for equipment and kitting up.
We went to dive a new site which had been found using the side scan sonar, which appeared to be a small wreck in 75m. Four divers went to the bottom, only find that it was a series of large, angular boulders. The 'no wreck' signal was sent up and the remaining divers stayed up. This area still seems to hold the promise of a ship wreck.

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Geraint and the dive gear.
In the background is the small tender boat which provided a rather unstable support vessel.

Day 3
We set off to the "Jews Ship" aiming to gather more data and video the bow section.
Strong winds made the sea conditions too dangerous for diving. The biggest problem was that the support boat was a small steel fishing boat. Whilst it was ideal for hauling nets around, it was extremely buoyant and very unstable in heavy seas.
We spent the rest of the day surveying with the ship's sonar around the area of the boulder field. We then headed further north to an area where the ship's captain had lost nets. We quickly found the mark and it was clearly a wreck lying in 90m of water.

Day 4
We planned to split the day into two dives. First was to be the new 90m wreck, followed by another visit to the "Jews Ship" wreck.
We managed to secure use of a 4.5m RIB for diver support removing the concerns over the flat bottomed boat from previous days.
The first team was Dave, John C, Greg M all carrying videos and Geraint. Jeannette provided deep support from 39m.
The wreck was not the Struma - it was a submarine, which was previously unknown. We will give more details of this in our full report.

Whilst the divers were decompressing a coast guard boat appeared at the site. After taking everyone's names and the ship's papers, we were escorted back to the coast guard station to have our passports checked. The coast guard wanted a detailed list of all diving equipment which took up the rest of the day. The fishermen were intimidated by this attention and were unwilling to hire their boats to us for diving until our written permits were received.

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Gary tries to keep cool

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Jeannette enters the water from the fishing boat

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