Diving

Wallachia Dives

I've dived the "Wallachia" 7 times:

Dive number Date Site Location Area Country Wreck Freshwater Depth (m) Bottom time (min) Total time (min) Divers Quality Summary Equipment
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First dive Last dive 		28 Aug 1983 Wallachia The Gantocks Clyde Scotland Wreck site 18 30 32 Iain Hosking, Geoff Hide, Jenny Clough Four stars Dived with Jenny and Geoff. Found wreck from transits in 'Scottish Diver' and echosounder. 35m to bottom at HW - 30m to deck. Round bows first, then aft past bridge (with wheel) to stern (also with wheel) via hold full of carboys containing stannous acid (a tin solution). Very dark and murky. No current. own
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First dive Last dive 		6 Nov 1983 Wallachia The Gantocks Clyde Scotland Wreck site 30 20 22 Iain Hosking, Eric Franz One stars Hell. Force 5, wet (on surface), dark, deep, silty, current. Dived on ebb tide (missed slack). Lost line on first attempt. At the second attempt spent half the dive undoing the grapple, then drifted over the jars. Only 20 ats by this time so surfaced rapidly. Soaking wet. PS. Seasick too. own
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First dive Last dive 		18 Sep 1986 Wallachia The Gantocks Clyde Scotland Wreck site 33 8 10 Iain Hosking, Crawford Foster Four stars Conditions even better. Wreck was buoyed so we were able to update our transits. 2 hour surface interval so we had a time penalty, but an excellent dive. Saw the bridge, wheel, engine room 'greenhouse', spare wheel, jars and beer bottles. Down over stern to see prop and rudder. Tried 91-year old beer. Horrible. Kevin's Rowi suit, 20lbs lead, club 78.
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First dive Last dive 		19 Sep 1986 Wallachia The Gantocks Clyde Scotland Wreck site 34 16 19 Iain Hosking, Geoff Hide Four stars Very good dive, with minimal current and good visibility. Saw from funnel forward to bows. Bows are very tall and imposing, and draped in nets. Forward hold contains beer bottles and tins. 20 minutes from Largs. Rowi suit, 20lbs, club 78
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First dive Last dive 		27 Sep 1986 Wallachia The Gantocks Clyde Scotland Wreck site 28 22 24 Iain Hosking, Graham Russell Three stars Dedicated stoneware jar search. Marginal conditions. Wreck was buoyed. Jars fixed in place much more securely than we thought - bent knives trying to free them. A taxing dive. New Avon dry suit - dry!
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First dive Last dive 		21 Dec 1986 Wallachia The Gantocks Clyde Scotland Wreck site 30 20 32 Iain Hosking, Mark Inall One stars The less said about this the better. Perfect conditions made irrelevant by the fact that Kirkintilloch got there first. Graham had a jar, but all Mark and I did was break one and lose the lifting bag (duly returned by Joe Murray). Aaargh! Club 78
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First dive Last dive 		14 Mar 1987 Wallachia The Gantocks Clyde Scotland Wreck site 30 20 22 Iain Hosking, Pete Wilkinson Four stars Finally hit the water at ten past six after a comedy of errors. Very good dive despite dark, cold, flooding torches etc. Lots of 'mice' (nudibranchs) under the stern. Found 100 year old whisky and groups of tin crystals. Malcolm's Diamond suit (left own in lockup!) and DV.