Today we put 5 teams into the water. The way we like to work on these projects is to take a simple overview of the wreck first, and then build up a detailed picture of the wreck as we work through the week.
The first goal is to "surround" the wreck in a perimeter of line. This gives us a good idea of how big the wreck is, and allows us to navigate easier on subsequent dives. This normally takes two teams - the first goes down and secures the shotline, ties in a line and runs along the side of the wreck. The second team ties into the first teams line and then heads the other way. All being well, they meet at some point and the wreck is then "contained".
Subsequent teams then follow these lines, and mark items or areas of interest. If we have photographers, then they also start to shoot as well.
I'm really happy today, as the dives went exactly to plan. We have completed the line, have a few points we want to return to, and also have 30 or so great pictures by Gareth Lock at various points around the wreck.
The dive was 50m deep, and teams spent between 25 and 40 minutes on the bottom. All are well and enjoying dinner in the Royal Breakwater Hotel in Portland.
We've spent the past couple of hours recreating what we saw, and have put our first sketch map together. This map will evolve over the duration of the project, detail and accuracy increasing on each dive. We have a great team of GUE divers on this project, and superb support from Smudge and Sarah at Scimitar Diving.
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