Pawel’s Blog

I have just come back from Brighton. This is the first time I have been diving with Channel Diver and I must admit that Steve has got greats skills and a lovely boat.

What can I say? Great visibility and great weather for this time of year. Some incredible spider crabs all over the wreck. Fairly deep with the maximum depth of around 35m according to my computer. Virtually no current.

On the down side, I have ripped one of my dry gloves again (sic!) and got pretty wet and cold. It’s a bit rough at the moment, but diving in the winter is so exciting and rewarding.

We were diving Blanefield SS, 3.411 ton steamer which was sunk on the 1st may 1906 on route from Junin to Dover when in collision with the vessel Kate Thomas. 36 died. More here.

Around 7 o’clock this evening firefighters reported a death of a male diver from Warsaw, Poland while scuba diving in Hancza. Hancza is a lake in Sudovia, Podlachian Voivodeship and it is the depest lake in Poland with the maximum depth of 108.5 m. It is a popular destination for technical divers. The cause of death is still unknown. The diver and his buddy were diving at 50 meters before getting into difficulties at 20 meters, but only one of them have managed to ascent shortly before he was taken to the hospital. More here (in Polish).