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Cornwall Shipwreck Hunters, Episode 6, The Steamship Volnay, sunk in 1917.
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- Опубліковано 15 сер 2024
- Episode 6: The Volnay.
A video having a look at a popular local wreck dive, that of the steamship Volnay, a 4610 ton British cargo ship homeward bound with war supplies when she hit a mine off the coast of Cornwall on the 14th December 1917.
Initially the crew thought she might stay afloat and anchored her up in the shallow bay just off pothoustock, but unfortunately she would go on to sink where the remains now lie in 20m of water.
The wreck is good to dive over winter as typically the visibility is better and its nice to be able to see some of features from a steamship recognisable on the wreck despite several attempts at salvage over the years.
Toward the end of the video we look at some of the artefacts raised over the years and explain how the 18 pounder ammunition was used.
All items in the video have been legally salvaged and declared to the Maritime and Coastguard agencys "receiver of wreck" as per UK maritime salvage law.
All ammunition items been inspected by both police and a bomb disposal team and declared safe/inert. Please do not let this video encourage yourself to go and raise similar items.
Thanks to Jason Rosevear for the original photo of the Volnay at sea.
Dont forget to subscibe. More videos on the way when i get a chance.
I dove this wreck this week and spotted a huge angler fish! Amazing place to dive
Ideal. It’s a nice wreck in good viz. sadly it’s very often a bit poor there but can be stunning especially in the spring and winter !
Thanks again. Enjoyed that. Dived it many times in the 70 's like many divers. My shed's full of
nose cones and cordite that still burns. A local from Porthallow ( the late Charlie Tripp ) was a boy when all its floating stores came ashore . He kept us enthralled with his tales. A similar cargo was on the wreck of the ' Luis ' lying just off Sandown I.O.W. Stay safe.
Great visibility for that site. Seen more of the wreck in this vid than I have done diving it.
🤣 it can be really really bad there !
One of the things I like about your films is how you compact some interesting information and film into a relatively short length. Ive edited movies myself and it isn't easy.
Thank you Filton glad that you appreciated it. It’s been quite a learning curve and getting the ballance right is hard. I’m always worried it going to make them too long and viewers will get bored and skip.
I really enjoyed this series. I don't know much about Cornwall maritime history so I found it very interesting, and fun to watch your dives. :-)
Many thanks . More on the way shortly !
Brilliant series very nicely put together.
Those boilers are huge!
Yeah they stand up a fair way . Usually plenty of fish around them too
exellent so interesting !
Enjoyed that thanks
Fantastic dive that 😍 first wreck I ever did
It can be ! I have also dived it in about one foot viz and it’s not so nice then, lots of sharp metal about !
@@BenoCam wow amazing how it can change so much, is that because of plankton?
Always wished to be able to dive especially around Cornwall as I go 3 times a year. What's the first step to be able to become a diver? Licences etc etc?
You need to get yourself the basic scuba certification, this is called different things by different trading agency’s, you will often see it referred to as open water diver, or ocean diver or similar. It will cover all the basics much of which you could do online before you come, it teaches you all of the physics and the things that will keep you alive so it’s quite important. Many places won’t give you an air fill without it either.
Once you have that you can go most places (often to a limited depth at first ) then they will try and push another course on you to allow you to go deeper but not everyone wants to go deeper, much of the really interesting stuff around the coast is all in the first 20m
@@BenoCam brillant thank you for your response muchly appricated. Are you from cornwall yourself. I'm currently down here on holiday now so I will take a trip to Falmouth at some point in the next couple days to seek more information and potential experience as I no it is a hot spot for diving there. Thanks
I’m away with work at the moment but yeah I normally live there.
You have 4 choices locally I can think of ....
Atlantic scuba / Mark Milburn who’s just outside of Falmouth at a small storage yard.
Seaways diving , down at commercial road Penryn.
Cornish diving , at bar road in Falmouth (possibly changed name now )
Porthkerris diving centre down on the manacles .
Any one of them should be able to sort you out.... hopefully ! I think they pretty much all run different courses /agency’s so will all be different durations /costs / levels of training .
Just go see what you fancy.
Is your boat a Mitchell by any chance?
Tamar 2000 ! Similar looking to a Mitchel though 🙂
Do you know anything on the mines on black head in the coverack area?
Do you mean naval mines that sink ships ? Or holes in the ground to get metal ore out of ? I have never heard of either on black head... dived a few of the wrecks off there but most lost due to fog .
@@BenoCam I mean copper mines
Never heard of any mines on that entire peninsula until you get around to rinsed head area . Might be wrong but I don’t think the geology is right for mine. The entire lizard peninsula is made of different rock.
@@BenoCam yeah I thought that but if you look on google maps you can see them. I can only find 3 there but two have been caped over but one hasn’t.
Do you have to get permission to dive here. Looks pretty interesting
Ha nah. It probably gets dived by hundreds of people every year. Its a shallow wreck and out of the tide and quite sheltered from the prevailing south westerlies.
DEATH AWAITS!!- MORGWAR IS HUNGRY!!! DONT DIVE!!!!