Lost shot - Plymouth - Elk

[JimmE]

If anyone happens to be planning a dive on the Elk out of Plymouth in the next week or two, East Cornwall Divers left their shotline on the wreck today.

It's definately on the wreck(!) so you'll have no risk of missing the site ;-)

It must have got tangled or dropped into one of the holds as we couldn't retrieve it. It has a faded pink buoy attached, Longroom Port Control are aware it's there. Down on the wreck attached to the shot itself is also an open ended SMB which isn't inflated - we couldn't get any air into the thing!

We couldn't dive again to recover it as all divers were out of dive time and low on gas.

We'll try and arrange a collection dive soon if we need to but we did wonder if someone might be planning to head out that way soon? If so safe return of the shot would be rewarded!

Safe diving!

[JimmE]

Well, we dived again this weekend to retrieve it. The line and buoy had been cut, obviously by divers because it was cut right at the bottom by the shot weight itself, with absolutely no rope left other than a clean stub next to the knot!

Obviously whoever had the rest didn't think much of my cheap open ended SMB as they left that clipped to the weight!

Anway, we attached the whole sherbang to the new shotline we brought with us, had an excellent dive on the wreck (best vis I've ever had on it!) and tried to retrieve it - unfortunately the old one never made it to the surface - the clip we used to clip it on gave way under the strain!

Oh well. A good excuse for another good dive squeezed in at the end of the year - we probably wouldn't have bothered diving otherwise, as only two of us wanted to get wet!