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Finding Treasure, Plymouth

Sat 21st April 2012 - Sun 22nd April 2012

To start the dive trips off this year we will be heading for The Coronation Wreck site. This is a protected wreck site, which can only be dived with a licence from the licence holders. Somerset Divers is a sponsor for the team who are researching the wreck. This is a man of war ship which sank in 1691 with most of the 500 crew, for more details go tohttp://www.somersetdivers.co.uk/the-coronation-wreck.htm

This will be a weekend of diving from Top Gun, a local dive boat, helping to check out the magnetometer hits that the research team would like to identify. There are about 100 hits but we will try and check out just a few, will it be an item of treasure, a lost cannon, a personal item from one of the crew, or a piece of scrap metal dumped from one of the many thousands of ships that have passed by over the years.

Dive 1 - will be on the Coronation Wreck main site where you will see some of the many cannons that are on the sea bed.

Dive 2 - divers will work in teams of 3 or 4 to check out the mag hits. Having identified the item you will record the details, maybe photograph it, then conduct a search of maybe 20m around the object, recording all finds.

An over night stay in Plymouth (not included in the price), may be a couple of beers.
Day 2 and Dive 3 - Again working in groups of 3 or 4.
Dive 4 - can be a choice depending on the finds made. Further mag hits or a swim back to the main site from the best mag hits to see what can be seen.

This will be a strictly no take weekend as regards finds, we will be joined by members of the project team who will give us direction. There will be no guided dives, each diver will need 2 tanks and DSMB. Accommodation must be booked separately at each divers expense, suggest B&B at The Mountbatten Centre, but bear in mind the trip may be cancelled due to weather.