The Anchor Graveyard Guernsey | Old Shipwreck ? | Discovery scuba
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- This new dive site has caused quite a stir with the discovery of 50 plus large anchors laying in a pile in 35 m of water off Guernsey's west coast. Steve Fallaize gave the hookie numbers to Paul Carre after his friend previously dived the site and explained it was 4 -5 anchors on the seabed which was causing all the anguish. On further dives, in probably better conditions it was found to be between 50 and 60 anchors. Paul, Phil, Jen and myself have captured this dive site for you to also enjoy. More dives will be done on this site to try to establish what, when and why. A shipwreck without a name has no history so fingers crossed we can establish why they are on the sea bed. Fingers crossed and stay safe.
What a fascinating find. Maybe there’s a reference out there somewhere in the archives as to the ship and cargo. Neptune may have the answer……..great footage. 👏
Thanks PC Crayfish. I’ll ask Neptune when I’m next in the water. 😂. We are looking for news in the archives and have found a few interesting and potential candidates. 👍🏻
Great dive 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks Cedric. 👍🏻👍🏻
Really interesting video JP, hopefully the other numbers I've given Paul will be as good as these.
Good work all of you
Cheers Steve
Fingers crossed 🤞 Steve
Thanks for giving us the numbers mate. I’m sure the other numbers will be just as interesting too. One in the deep will definitely be interesting. Can’t wait to dive them. 👍🏻👍🏻
Wow really interesting and puzzling.
We still have more work to do on this one 👍🏻😉👍🏻
Never thought there would be so many @Anchors in the sea 🤣😂 Great dive thanks for the ride JP
Thanks Barry. 👍🏻👍🏻
Nice video JP - more info in it than the CTV piece.
😉 with the little I have, we make it work 😂
Absolutely amazing find, loved the filming well done 👍
Thanks Dean 👍🏻👍🏻
I saw as well diving in Nova Scotia bargaes sink with steel grate video JP 👍
Must of been a big insurance claim. Thanks Darrell 👍🏻👍🏻
Very interesting dive
It is Pace diver, never seen so many anchors in one place. 👍🏻
Excellent video :)
Thanks Leslie 👍🏻👍🏻
What a fantastic find JP. Look forward to hearing more of this amazing story. Keep up the great work and thanks again for taking us with you ! 👍
Thanks for watching mate. We will be visiting the site again next year now with some divers which know a lot more then us. Hopefully more info to follow 👍🏻👍🏻
What an amazing video.this is a mystery that I can't wait to be solved.some really mysterious content in this one JP.brilliant work as always.cheers JP.
Its all thanks to Steve for giving us the location. So many questions unanswered at the moment. We will keep you posted on any information we get. 👍🏻👍🏻thanks for watching Michael
WOW, AMAZING!
Thanks Jaymee 👍🏻👍🏻
Some very large anchors there.
I’m guessing at 1.5 tons for the larger ones. 👍🏻👍🏻
Absolutely fantastic to see.. I’m wondering if the ship capsized and the anchors fell out and the wreck of the ship could be near by?
It might be SwS. The others have had a drift over the area and they said it’s a massive boulder field all the way around it so it doesn’t look like it’s there, or they haven’t found it yet
Fascinating, it will be really interesting if you find out the origin of the anchors or shipwreck.
We will do our best to find out Troy. 👍🏻👍🏻.
My goodness that’s quite a supply of anchors that looks like maybe a flat barge might’ve sunk but I don’t see very much evidence of wood to say that it might’ve been a barge and there’s an awful lot of iron down there those anchors are immense in size and nobody’s ever said anything to you guys in the past So this is a brand new phone wow very interesting
It’s a new one to us and a complete surprise. We would of dived it as soon as we were given the numbers if we knew it was going to that interesting. I’m thinking a barge aswell. 👍🏻👍🏻
A sunken mystery. Hopefully it will give up its secret on a return visit Jp. See you on the sea floor for another explore
Hopefully we can find out more info on the anchors which may lead to a story or report. 👍🏻👍🏻
Wonder if that was being transported as ballast for a small sailing ship. I wondered if as you said you had a small window to dive, has the hard ground and tide slowly removed any wreckage leaving just the anchors behind .so if you managed to dig down between the anchors would you find the remaining bits of the boat because tide action would not be able to move it due to weight on top ?
I think if the anchors showed signs of damage it could of been ballast. Very expensive ballast, but we did think that ourselves but went off that idea due to it being so large In volume. A few well stacked rocks would of been a less expensive and smaller in volume option for ballast. I think you could be correct on the tide plucking away the timber portions of the wreckage but it still wouldn’t explain the heavier items that would of made up a ship not being present. I think it was a barge as we have another site on the east coast which we know was, and carrying 80 tons of stone which has no timber left. Also a sprit sail barge on the north carrying stone and no timber left on the site. 👍🏻👍🏻
Are the anchors pre 1945 if so low background worth moooooneeey.
They are and that’s why we won’t be giving anyone the location 😂😂
I don't suppose you'd be doing much harm by picking one of the larger or more accessible anchors and getting rid of the concretion. From the mid-19th century anchors above a certain weight had to be tested to some degree, often by being dropped onto a stone or steel surface.
Such anchors, if commissioned by the Admiralty, would have stamps or cast numbers - usually in diamonds or circles - on one or other fluke, and often on the shank as well.
I'm just guessing, but often a steam capstan with a clutch-ring on its top (for use as an anchor winch or rope windlass) would have a maker's name cast into it.
Concretion may hide the best chance you have of tracing the event - a date. So, it would seem you have nothing to lose by removing concretion on the bigger items or even lifting one or two smaller ones so it can be done in with relative ease on dry land.
There is so much paperwork to fill out to move/ salvage these anchors it’s not worth the hassle. It would be great if we did chip some concretions off and find a marking. Problem is we have so many anchors in our waters I still think it would be a mission to track the vessel which lost it. I’m sure you are correct about a marking on the anchor somewhere. 👍🏻😁👍🏻
@@scubadive
That sounds about right; nobody knew it was there, but now that it's discovered our old friend bureaucracy takes over and puts hurdles in your way.
The thing is, it could be these date from well after Lloyds insisted on registration and certification of major ship components. As such, they would have been recorded on a manifest or registered after testing under the terms of whichever version of 'The Chain Cable and Anchor Act' was active at the time.
I would also think that this was quite a valuable - and unique - cargo, and would have at least made the Lloyd's casualty list. It would therefore be a reasonably straightforward search criterion.
The key is, of course, a date or proof mark - and/or possibly an estimation of age based on the concretion build-up. This would give you a date range to look at, but as far as I know, Lloyd's List isn't fully digitised yet, so it would still mean a lot of time in a reading room.
The significant lack of a wrecked ship may also hint at a capsize.
Hack away at a couple of the bigger flukes and shanks - you might just get lucky. There has to be an answer to this.
Good luck, and thanks for getting back to me.
@@ginskimpivot753 we have been back to her since and have had a quick look at the smaller anchor below which seems to have been snapped probably due to age and condition. I may have a little chip away and see 😉🤫😂👍🏻
@@scubadive
Just as an aside, I was in the RN for 22 years and was always fascinated by its history, particularly mutinies and odd trivia about groundings and bizarre accidents.
Although I travelled for most of the time I served - due mainly to getting a place on the Royal Yacht - I was one of those who did _NOT_ feel particularly comfortable swimming in deep water. Even now, looking down into deep clear water gives me the creeps, particularly when close to a buoy or a ships cable as it disappears down into the murk.
It's not our world down there, and I particularly empathise when you have said that something spooked or alarmed you as it brushed past you on the tide.
Anchor Trivia: Ark Royal anchored off Gibraltar in the 1970s, and when they weighed and brought it up, the cable had an overhand knot in it.
I also recall some stop we made in the Channel Islands in the 90s. The tidal range played absolute havoc with the brow positions. We had to keep altering the deck level we put the gangway on in order to stop it canting up on its outboard end as the tide dropped.
@@ginskimpivot753 I’m fine on the bottom but near the surface when your on your own my mind plays tricks I’m sure. A few times I’ve been overtaken by bait fish and I always wonder what’s chasing them. Seen a dolphin come up and take a look and that was scary too. The Small Russel where we normally dive has a huge tide range (10.4 M) with currents normally running N to S or S to N with a prevailing wind from the west which can tie anchors up. We have had Cruise ships loose an anchor or two and we did once find it for them. Huge 3inch thick chain links straightened out. Wasn’t the anchor caught it was the chain about 75 m along from it caught around a small reef which broke it. Sounds like we have similar interests 👍🏻😉👍🏻
What is the latest news on these anchors? 1850’s-1890’s? Any information appreciated.
Sorry no further information on these just yet but hoping a few experts which will come along from the UK and tell us more. Don't worry I will do an update on any further information we get .
would they of been used in the war for achoring mines just a thought
Too heavy and to expensive I would guess. If they were damaged possibly but they all seem in good nick. 👍🏻👍🏻
@@scubadive would they of being transported to some were to be used by mine laying ships
@@neilsimone7691 I wouldn’t know to be honest Neil 😂
WW 2 scrap metal as there was a shortage for building munitions/ ships/ tanks etc.?
That’s a good thought F4R Ducky but it pre dates WW2 we think. Mid to late 1800’s I have been told. 👍🏻👍🏻
I know that railings and pots and pans were sent to aid the war so maybe a mass collection of a chandlers yard was put together to aid the war effort. @@scubadive
@@f4rducky418 yes Guernsey had it after the war for the rearmament drive in the 1950’s. I like the way your thinking.
Reading up on it alot of iron which wasn’t suitable for use in munitions or iron that was stockpiled for the war effort was of no use after the war and a lot of it was dumped out to sea.