Wreck Check!

willk · 16 March 2008, 20:10

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!

Andy Moore · 16 March 2008, 20:57

Did she look like she had been looted at all? Loads of nice electronics on board, I reckon?

willk · 16 March 2008, 21:18

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....

willk · 16 March 2008, 21:27

a pic from today, courtesy of Netdrum, thanks!

Pablo · 17 March 2008, 16:32

If you want to be sure to dive it in the future then lasso it and drag it out a bit

bogib · 04 August 2008, 11:57

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......

Bogi

prairie tuber · 08 August 2008, 13:13

That won't look to good on the resumes of the navigator and the helmsman!

willk · 01 September 2008, 13:10

http://www.maib.gov.uk/publications/...08/horizon.cfm

willk · 24 March 2009, 15:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by willk

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

willk · 27 April 2009, 22:50

http://www.maib.gov.uk/cms_resources...ne%20Flyer.pdf