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Old 16 March 2008, 20:10   #1
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A cracking day was had today in the North West - three RIBs out to have a look for this:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0304/rescue.html

Anyway, she's still there and looking very lonely. We didn't meet another boat for 20 nm. If she slips back a few meters, she'll be a beaut of a dive in 20m!
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Old 16 March 2008, 20:57   #2
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Looted Already?
Did she look like she had been looted at all? Loads of nice electronics on board, I reckon?
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Old 16 March 2008, 21:18   #3
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Looted? As a diver, I wouldn't have a clue what that means.

It would be a brave individual who looted her before today. She is inside a very nasty boulder field and tucked under an overhanging cliff. The hull is open and awash, I'd guess that the lekkie is, um, non-operative. It was a crabber, so assume kit not specced OTT. We got to 40 meters of the hull when our common sense circuitry went to ALERT!

So we didn't loot anything....
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a pic from today, courtesy of Netdrum, thanks!
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I'm joking !
If you want to be sure to dive it in the future then lasso it and drag it out a bit
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We passed (Willk, Danny and John) the scene and although I have see some wreckage in the past this I must say is like an art she is in a cave like she has been put there by hands......

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That won't look to good on the resumes of the navigator and the helmsman!
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The Official Report
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A cracking day was had today in the North West - three RIBs out to have a look for this:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0304/rescue.html

Anyway, she's still there and looking very lonely. We didn't meet another boat for 20 nm. If she slips back a few meters, she'll be a beaut of a dive in 20m!
How to put this one? For once I'm damn near speechless in wonder! Well, here goes - She's not lonely anymore....

Get this, four miles from the Horizon, on the other side of the bay, in identical circumstances:
"Ladies and Gentlemen and Ribnetters, I give you the Niamh Aine, sister ship to the Horizon".

All hands safe. Now, if only Kent Diving would hurry those regs up......

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...243269298.html
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