Britannia Wrecks and Wall (08/04/14)

[FishLovingStudent]

Return to the wrecks and went to find the wall. Wrecks are easy to find, just around the pilings right in front of Galileos. GUE has actually taken responsibility of the wrecks. They are recording info on them, so the wrecks are actually marked by buoys on the surface.
The wall was a bit tricky and luckily just bumped into it near the end of the dive. The ships that used to mark its location is gone. You can find it going perpendicular to the third piling to the right out of four (if you are looking towards them in the water) in the inlet right of the inlet the wrecks are in. Easy access (and parking) at the public marina/art gallery. Just park and the access is to the left.

Some interesting things to see, there is a huge (like, the footprint of a house) on the way to the wall if you are coming in from the wrecks side. A lot of large fish hide in the folds. Very interesting because most of it is just desolate sand, flounders, and shrimp. The Cape Swain is in better shape than I have been told. As is the other two ships.

Heres the RAW footage. Not terribly interesting on film but the dives were great.

[video=youtube;kzm6PDqWhjM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzm6PDqWhjM&feature=youtu.be[/video]

 

[VicScubaVentures]

Where is this???

C.
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Edit: figured it out. not familiar with the wrecks, and didn't recognize Britannia Beach reference.

C.

 

[DaleC]

What does that mean "GUE has taken responsibility of the wrecks"? Do they own them now, are they checking C cards, patrolling the site?

SEC documented these wrecks a couple of years ago. And the dives are pretty well known locally.

Britannia Beach - SECSociety.com

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/we...recks-howe-sound-pts-1-2-britannia-beach.html

 

[mustang_5l]

Britannia Beach | projectbaseline

www.projectbaseline.org

GUE has set up a monitoring station there for visibility and temperature mesurements. Anyone can contribute their findings from the site. It is meant to record changes over time. It will soon include more measurements such as fish & invertibrate counts to see what type of life comes back to the area since the cleanup. The site is already well documented and known. There is already a wealth of information available. No use re-inventing the wheel. It's proximity to shore, ease of access for all divers and recent environmental changes made it a perfect test bed for a baseline project that can be continually monitored over time by everyone.

As far as I know we did not place any bouyies on site and the montoring stations are secured below next to the wrecks. They are easy enough to find.

We don't check C-Cards nor do we patrol anywhere.

Any questions, just ask.

JC

 

[FishLovingStudent]

Poor choice of wording, sorry.

There were buoys on the Ready and the Swain, maybe another person has put them there?

P.S. I also meant to say that "theres a large tarp" on the way to the wall.