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ian Barefoot - 27 May 2005 03:00 GMT

Posting is on behalf of the Nutical Archaeology Society...

Want to dive an Elizabethan wreck (Elizabeth I that is...)? Last year a
merchant vessel dated to 1560 (only just younger than the 'Mary Rose') Was
recovered from the River Thames. She now lies in Horsea Island, much as she
would have appeared in the Thames - only now she can be seen! Yes, we know
about Horsea's 'viz' - but this site is in Zone 1 which rarely gets dived.
With our policy of making heritage available for all, we can offer divers
the chance to dive the site on

4-5 June 2005, 23-24 July and 3-4 Dec 2005.

Cost is £15 each - but includes a whole day's entry to Horsea. Diving on
the site will be limited to one buddy pair per half-hour, to maintain the
vis - normally 3-5m (Believe it!).

Places are limited, so book early, using the form at:
http://www.nasportsmouth.org.uk/training/horseatimberdive.htm

Photography is allowed, so take the chance to photograph a wooden wreck in
all it's glory.

Thanks for reading this far

Ian Barefoot
for
NAS Training
www.nasportsmouth.org.uk

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Keith Manning - 27 May 2005 08:59 GMT

> Posting is on behalf of the Nutical Archaeology Society...
>
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> Photography is allowed, so take the chance to photograph a wooden wreck in
> all it's glory.

I did this last November. It is an very interesting dive if you like wooden
wrecks of that period and there is other stuff in zone 1 (where public
people don't normally get to go) to look at. The viz is normally better at
that end of the lake.

BTW, I don't work for nor am I otherwise connected to NAS.

Keith

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Nigel Hewitt - 27 May 2005 09:48 GMT

>> Want to dive an Elizabethan wreck (Elizabeth I that is...)? Last year a
>> merchant vessel dated to 1560 (only just younger than the 'Mary Rose') Was
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> people don't normally get to go) to look at. The viz is normally better at
> that end of the lake.

I am very interested in wrecks of this vintage but somehow I'd rather
visit the timbers conserved than at Horsea. I just don't quite understand
the reason behind the project unless it is to preserve the timbers using
the brackish Horsea waters much as the Baltic does and the diving is a
bonus.

I do need to do an 'interest' declaration but the other way round.
I am an NAS member. I am proceeding through their training system
and am involved in mapping and researching an 1800s(?) wooden wreck
at the moment. Elizabethan would be twice as exciting but one that
has been moved to Horsea seems to loose its magic and perplexes me.

nigelH

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David Walker - 28 May 2005 11:57 GMT

> at the moment. Elizabethan would be twice as exciting but one that
> has been moved to Horsea seems to loose its magic and perplexes me.

... kind of like the "galleon" in Stoney? :o)

David

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ian Barefoot - 31 May 2005 00:29 GMT

Keith, Nigel, David -

Thanks for the contributions - background can be found on the original
link - but with regard to the 'preservation' aspect - that is the reason
they're in Horsea. It was either that or they would have made a very good
bonfire...

With conservation costs at astronomic prices ,no one was going to pick up
the tab. After all, we've got the 'Newport Ship' and the 'Mary Rose',
right???

The 'galleon ' at Stoney was a creation rather than presevation. Done by
Liecester University (I think) in an ttempt to teach underwater survey
techniques in the 80's.

>> at the moment. Elizabethan would be twice as exciting but one that
>> has been moved to Horsea seems to loose its magic and perplexes me.
>
> ... kind of like the "galleon" in Stoney? :o)
>
> David

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