"The submarine massacre 1915" - our trip

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KOMPRESSOR

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Thought I'd share with you the photo gallery from our recent trip to Southern Sweden:

Photo gallery: http://www.turut.no/vrakdykking.htm



Just some examples here:



Photos: Kjetil Palmquist


The trip was arranged by us in TURUT, started out in Oslo, Norway, and included a social 10 hour bus ride to get there. We had chartered the "Stora M" 90 ft diving boat for our 3 days "expedition". It came out more of as a holiday with gorgeous weather, sunbathing and swimming in the Baltic Sea. But the diving was for real, with depths of around 30-39 meters, and all dives including deco stops and gas switches for everybody as we did 6 rather deep and long dives in three days.

Extraordinary service from the crew and a really, really, REALLY cool boat to go diving from too! :D

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Photo: Kjetil Palmquist


Here's us gathered except Kjetil, who had to take the picture...:

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Photo: Kjetil Palmquist



You can read more about the history of the wrecks and the WW1 sinking by a British submarine here:



http://www.divernet.com/wrecks/0601e19.htm#top
 
Looks incredible! Would love to dive them! What type of dry suits and under garments did you use?

Mike
 
mikerault:
Looks incredible! Would love to dive them! What type of dry suits and under garments did you use?

Mike


Just the average, either shell suits with minimum 300 gr undergarments, or as I did, 6 mm neoprene with a (thin) layer of 100% wool under.

Water temps were 7 degrees celsius at the bottom, 17 C at deco level and 20 C in the surface. It's usually around 5 C at the bottom, but winds had changed that a bit when we dove, and also cluttered the viz a bit (about 12 metres).


Me during "After diving"....


Now this was August. if you do these wrecks in the winter or spring, it WILL BE COLD...
 
Nice pics!

You know what they say...water is only cold if you´re not properly insulated...
 
grazie42:
Nice pics!

You know what they say...water is only cold if you´re not properly insulated...

Well, with 17C on our 18 minutes of deco, it was (probably, I wouldn't really know...) like swimming is p*ss... :D
 
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