Read more about the article Spiralling Events – A Bruised Ego But The Lessons Never Stop
A Bruised Ego But The Lessons Never Stop

Spiralling Events – A Bruised Ego But The Lessons Never Stop

Gas used. Trimix 11% O2 / 45% Helium / 44% Nitrogen (known as 11/45). On a beautiful, flat calm, 7th August at 10:36 the horn on Sea Leopard went and two divers plunged into the murky depths of Lyme Bay above HMS M2. A tropical 21 degrees on the surface, and visibility initially a low 1m, the temperature dropped as…

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Tango of Weymouth - HMS M2 and HMS Sidon Submarine Weekend

Diving the HMS M2 and HMS Sidon Submarines – Tango of Weymouth

This was a long awaited Weymouth weekend having carried forward the trip from 2020 due to Covid and again from March this year as accommodation was not available. But as the adage suggests, good things come to those who wait. It was the idea of Piers that we dive the HMS Sidon submarine but unfortunately with the date changes, he…

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Read more about the article Diving the HMS M2 Submarine For The First Time
British Submarine HMS M2

Diving the HMS M2 Submarine For The First Time

On a breezy Saturday morning, Scimitar Diving cast off lines from Portland Harbour bound for HMS M2. The trip out was a little lumpy but nothing too horrendous, with a solid force four wind, gusting five. Seas were forecast as 1m. Admittedly the seas would always be calmer on the western side of the beach due to the easterlies.As we…

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