Diving
Thesis Dives
I've dived the "Thesis" 9 times:
| Dive number | Date | Site | Location | Area | Country | Wreck | Freshwater | Depth (m) | Bottom time (min) | Total time (min) | Divers | Quality | Summary | Equipment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
36
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12 Apr 1981 | Thesis | Sound of Mull | Mull | Scotland |  |
30 | 20 | 20 | Iain Hosking, Eric Franz |  |
First attempt aborted due to current. Second attempt during slack (almost). Wreck is perpendicular to shore, bows up, buoyed. Beautiful tube worms (small heads). Vis 6m, not cold. | Steel 69, ABLJ 2 | |
| 43
|
17 Apr 1981 | Thesis | Sound of Mull | Mull | Scotland | |
28 | 15 | 15 | Iain Hosking, Eric Franz | |
No current this time - down buoy line onto bow section, down starboard side to stern at 28m, back up port side, seeing boiler, engine room, holds and up into bows. Vis 5m. Very pretty fan-worms in companionway. | Steel 69, ABLJ 2 | |
| 87
|
11 Apr 1982 | Thesis | Sound of Mull | Mull | Scotland | |
30 | 20 | 20 | Iain Hosking, Eric Franz | |
Caught slack by sheer coincidence. Straight down to stern, and back up through holds and engine room. Latter very spectacular with missing hull plates forming a gallery, and boilers, wheels etc. Dive-bombed Geoff, Sue & Doc, and lost Eric. Torch had a burial at sea. Vis between 0 and 4m. | own | |
| 91
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13 Apr 1982 | Thesis | Sound of Mull | Mull | Scotland | |
30 | 18 | 18 | Iain Hosking, Eric Franz |  |
Right round wreck, up into bows and swam entire length of ship under the deck - in through rear hold, past engine and boiler, through forward hold and right into bows. No torches, vis terrible, but great dive. | own | |
| 170
|
10 Apr 1984 | Thesis | Sound of Mull | Mull | Scotland | |
30 | 20 | 24 | Iain Hosking, Pete Wilson | |
Wreck not buoyed but we found it with echosounder and grapple. Hit slack so no current. Ears and sinuses bloody awkward. Wreck very pretty - down to stern, then up past engine and boiler to forward hold. Looked around bows before coming up. | own | |
| 219
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5 May 1985 | Thesis | Sound of Mull | Mull | Scotland | |
30 | 20 | 20 | Iain Hosking, Grace Franz | |
Absolute flat calm and no current. Down buoy line to bows and down deck to stern to look at the rudder. Then inside to swim the length of the ship, past the flywheel and up into the bows. Down to engine room again, where we saw a conger. Adrian dived without a weight belt. | Own +Scubapro Mk II | |
| 260
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12 Oct 1985 | Thesis | Sound of Mull | Mull | Scotland | |
30 | 15 | 17 | Iain Hosking, Kenny Jack | |
Boat trip [from Lochaline] started off rough but ended calm. Current was not calm. Hauled our way down the line and headed straight for the engine room to visit the conger. Then down to the stern and up inside to the bows. Getting into the boat was tough. | own | |
| 335
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13 Apr 1987 | Thesis | Sound of Mull | Mull | Scotland | |
30 | 20 | 22 | Iain Hosking, Martin Harrison | |
Up at 5.30am in torrential rain for this one. West coast out so this was plan B. Due to faffing about didn't get in the water till 11. Water was brilliantly clear - best vis yet on the Thesis. Swam down past the engine and boiler to the hold, then the bows. Good 'cage' effect, where the bow plates have gone. Back down to the stern. No conger, no prop. Stern was deeper than 30m | ||
| 336
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13 Apr 1987 | Thesis | Sound of Mull | Mull | Scotland | |
30 | 15 | 17 | Iain Hosking, Martin Harrison | |
Dived within 6 hours so had a 5 minute penalty. Swam down to the stern first, then back to the engine room area. Through the 'gallery' saw a brass valve apparently lying on the seabed outside the wreck - pretty firmly fixed but worth thinking about. Swam up beside the ship, looking underneath - rewarded by sight of large fish, including a large and beautifully-coloured cuckoo wrasse. |