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daz

10-12-2011, 21:11

hi im darren,have been diving for about 18months,and am on with my sports diver training at the moment.
i do 90% of my diving in the lake district in various lakes.im realy not interested in diving abroad and looking at pretty fish,i love the dark gloom of the lakes!
one of my other hobbys is digging and collecting victorian bottles,and woul love to find some whilst diving! all i ever find down there is garden gnomes:confused:

sijomon

10-12-2011, 22:59

Hi there, and welcome to the forum.

If you dive the lakes and like bottles, try here:

Ullswater: Howtown Pier (http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/freshwaterdiver/Web%20Pages/Ullswater1.htm)

I've never dived it so can't personally recommend it, but I've read about it and heard about it. If you do dive it, post back.

Happy diving :)

daz

11-12-2011, 16:16

cheers for that mate,i have that dive pencilled in for next year, gonna wait for better weather and make a day of it. i have been told theres another area in there full of bottles which is less known about,so will check that to:)

markzdemetrez

15-12-2011, 09:42

Just wanna say hi.

ChristianG

15-12-2011, 11:55

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortfin_mako_sharkone of my other hobbys is digging and collecting victorian bottles,and woul love to find some whilst diving! all i ever find down there is garden gnomes:confused:
Chuckle. :)

I can tall you of a wreck locally, about 47 metres down, where you are likely to find beer bottles dated 1916, the year before the Nerong went down. Now that might not be "old" by your standards but it sure is by ours.

Incidentally, I didn't find either of mine, they were found by a "proper-like" wreck rat, I prefer to photograph the things but I was quite happy to relieve him of some of his booty. Now, if he'd started leveraging bits of wreck rather than digging in the dirt i would not have been a happy chappy. The Nerong, BTW, is often so swathed in fish you can't see the wreck until you "part the waves", as it were and we've sometimes been entertained by dolphins on deco, oh, and the odd mako shark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortfin_mako_shark).

Come on downunder sometime, I'll be happy to show you the Nerong. :D