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Chadwick Dives

I've dived the "Chadwick" 3 times:

Dive number	Date	Site	Location	Area	Country	Depth (m)	Bottom time (min)	Total time (min)	Divers	Summary	Equipment
51	17 May 1981	Chadwick	West coast of Skye	Skye	Scotland	22	15	15	Iain Hosking, George Hay	Launched from Loch Poolteil and tied onto buoy below 600 foot cliffs. Current 1 knot but OK in lee of the wreck. Saw most of the hull, prop and boiler. Dead fish. Vis 7-8m.	Al 56, ABLJ 2
228	4 Jul 1985	Chadwick	West coast of Skye	Skye	Scotland	24	23	25	Iain Hosking, Sarah McCracken	Jammy dive. Grappling the wreck was a total disaster. At the second attempt we copped out and drifted along the bottom upside-down. At the end of a brief gossip we looked up and there was the wreck! We couldn't believe our eyes. Had a quick gnash down to the prop and then up to the bows via the boilers. Back down to the boilers again when we met Adrian and Carole. Good fish life, especially the cuckoo wrasse which were fluorescent electric blue. Good vis, fair current (slack was 2 hours later than we calculated).	own
276	29 Mar 1986	Chadwick	West coast of Skye	Skye	Scotland	21	33	33	Iain Hosking, Geoff Hide, Sarah McCracken	Amazingly brilliant weather. Woke to blazing sunshine, and the Cuillins across the water. Out to the Chadwick in slightly rough conditions (sea state 5). Geoff joins the ranks of the Master Grapplers by casually dropping the grapple straight into the wreck after lining up a couple of boulders on the shore. No messing. We dived second (feeling queasy) and hit the bottom in tremendous visibility (especially when the sun came out!). Twice around the wreck, through the arched bit twice, down to the prop, round the boilers. Saw several attractive brass valves, bits of copper pipe, lumps of coal, millions of cup coral, scores of tiny nudibranchs (purple with white spots), red sunstars, crabs (one with an outrageous coat). Ace dive! Slack 11.30 GMT (12.30 EST), ebb tide.	own, + Ewan's twin 40s.

Dive number

Date

Site

Location

Area

Country

Wreck

Freshwater

Depth (m)

Bottom time (min)

Total time (min)

Divers

Quality

Summary

Equipment

17 May 1981

Chadwick

West coast of Skye

Skye

Scotland

Iain Hosking, George Hay

Launched from Loch Poolteil and tied onto buoy below 600 foot cliffs. Current 1 knot but OK in lee of the wreck. Saw most of the hull, prop and boiler. Dead fish. Vis 7-8m.

Al 56, ABLJ 2

228

4 Jul 1985

Chadwick

West coast of Skye

Skye

Scotland

Iain Hosking, Sarah McCracken

Jammy dive. Grappling the wreck was a total disaster. At the second attempt we copped out and drifted along the bottom upside-down. At the end of a brief gossip we looked up and there was the wreck! We couldn't believe our eyes. Had a quick gnash down to the prop and then up to the bows via the boilers. Back down to the boilers again when we met Adrian and Carole. Good fish life, especially the cuckoo wrasse which were fluorescent electric blue. Good vis, fair current (slack was 2 hours later than we calculated).

own

276

29 Mar 1986

Chadwick

West coast of Skye

Skye

Scotland

Iain Hosking, Geoff Hide, Sarah McCracken

Amazingly brilliant weather. Woke to blazing sunshine, and the Cuillins across the water. Out to the Chadwick in slightly rough conditions (sea state 5). Geoff joins the ranks of the Master Grapplers by casually dropping the grapple straight into the wreck after lining up a couple of boulders on the shore. No messing. We dived second (feeling queasy) and hit the bottom in tremendous visibility (especially when the sun came out!). Twice around the wreck, through the arched bit twice, down to the prop, round the boilers. Saw several attractive brass valves, bits of copper pipe, lumps of coal, millions of cup coral, scores of tiny nudibranchs (purple with white spots), red sunstars, crabs (one with an outrageous coat). Ace dive! Slack 11.30 GMT (12.30 EST), ebb tide.

own, + Ewan's twin 40s.