Adrian Kelland once bubbled...
ONE of my favorite wrecks is the James Eagan Layne, probably one of the most dived wrecks as it is very easily reached and is in 24m. I like it because it is large (don't see the other divers much) and has plenty to interest me and I don't know it all. We do it as a second dive or when blown out or work ups with trainees. This year it had grey mullett swimming around it, the first time I have ever seen them on a dive. I don't have a wreck I would put above all others.
Can't comment on it, cos I've never been there - I agree that there is aproblem on the 'favorite' phrase.
Yesterdays dive was one of my favorites in terms of 'good' diving - not necesarily the most fun - a steam trawler lost in 1917 in 75m, only ever dived 3 times before, twice by ourselves - the bow section is completely intact, but with most of the wooden structure gone. The anchors are still in place, the shells for the 'missing' gun in storage, right next to the shot -line was the port nav light, glass intact with Hull Steam fishing and Ice making co' on a brass plaque, nice pineapple light diffusers. Towards the collapsed bridge the helm, compass stand, rather utiliarian portholes, two telegraphs at full ahead - then destruction, a collapsed area, with a 'greenhouse' off to one side, the prop at 90deg to the rest of the wreck as the stern sits in a rocky gully - intact to a point where you could imagine people working aboard her, fittings as fallen
It doesn't fit into any of the 'eaily dived' categories, although it's not a particuarly challenging dive for its depth - none the less, most of the more accessible/well dived sites cease to be very interesting after a few dives like the above.
