I tried something a bit different with this dive video.
Usually I just edit together the best clips, stick a Grateful Dead song over them and post. People who actually dive on these wrecks in the NYC area seem to enjoy it, but I suspect that many people watching them are not divers at all, or divers who don’t dive locally. So I thought that those people could use a little more context and explanations about what we are actually doing here.
This is a recent dive to the wreck of the Arundo, a Dutch Freighter that was torpedoed by a Nazi U-boat in 1942, sending it to the bottom in five minutes, with six casualties. I have been on this wreck a number of times, but while fascinating, it is in the “mud hole” and fairly deep. Therefore, it tends to be both dark and in poor visibility. However, the conditions on this particular dive were a welcome exception - we were able to see it more like the ship that it was than just a pile of tires and beer bottles!
In this video I go into some detail explaining how we do these dives, with some supplementary photos, diagrams and maps. I hope that you like it.
Usually I just edit together the best clips, stick a Grateful Dead song over them and post. People who actually dive on these wrecks in the NYC area seem to enjoy it, but I suspect that many people watching them are not divers at all, or divers who don’t dive locally. So I thought that those people could use a little more context and explanations about what we are actually doing here.
This is a recent dive to the wreck of the Arundo, a Dutch Freighter that was torpedoed by a Nazi U-boat in 1942, sending it to the bottom in five minutes, with six casualties. I have been on this wreck a number of times, but while fascinating, it is in the “mud hole” and fairly deep. Therefore, it tends to be both dark and in poor visibility. However, the conditions on this particular dive were a welcome exception - we were able to see it more like the ship that it was than just a pile of tires and beer bottles!
In this video I go into some detail explaining how we do these dives, with some supplementary photos, diagrams and maps. I hope that you like it.
