Countess of Erne, 08/21/2012

Observer Name: Matt Knifton
Observation Start Time: 19.30
Observation End Time: 20.15
Weather Conditions: Sunny, large southerly swell
Depth of Observations (indicate meters or feet):
Water Visibility (high, medium, low): Medium (3-6m)
Water Turbidity (high, medium, low): Medium
Water Current Direction: S-N
Water Current Speed (high, medium, low): Irrelevant
Water Temperature (indicate C or F): 18C
Notable Flora:
Notable Fauna: Light bulb sea squirt, phallusia mammillata, ascidia virginea, dead mans fingers, boring sponge, tompot blennies, gurnard, velvet swimming crabs, spiny spider crab, common limpet, king scallop, candy stripe flatworm, beadlet anemones, polycera quadrillineata, nudibranch, pollock
Other Observer Comments:Good visibility considering topside conditions. Wreck unchanged since the last time I dived it. Mooring to the front end of the wreck has been removed.

Countess of Erne, 08/21/2012

Observer Name:  Gerry and Angel White
Observation Start Time: 19.26
Observation End Time: 20.17
Weather Conditions: Low light, strong winds
Depth of Observations (indicate meters or feet): 12.5m
Water Visibility (high, medium, low): Low (0-3m)
Water Turbidity (high, medium, low): Medium
Water Current Direction: S-N
Water Current Speed (high, medium, low): N
Water Temperature (indicate C or F): 18C
Notable Flora:
Notable Fauna: 4 sea scorpions, 1 pipefish, pollock, black faced blennies, tompot blennies, wrasse, spider crabs, velvet swimmer crabs, violet sea slugs, candy striped flatworm, devonshire cup corals, fried egg anemones, pink sea fans, light bulb sea squirts, dead man's fingers.
Other Observer Comments: (Gerry:) It has been a while since I dived the Countess but there did seem to be a few areas of what looked like bright new rust areas, maybe some areas are coming apart? Very very hard surface swim back to the boat, won't be in any hurry to repeat it!!

Chesil Beach Cove, 08/12/2012

Observer Name: Gerry and Angel White
Observation Start Time: 11.36
Observation End Time: 12.44
Weather Conditions: Sunny and light offshore breeze
Depth of Observations (indicate meters or feet): 15m
Water Visibility (high, medium, low): Medium (3-6m)
Water Turbidity (high, medium, low): Medium
Water Current Direction: Non
Water Current Speed (high, medium, low): Non
Water Temperature (indicate C or F): 17C
Notable Flora:
Notable Fauna:2 lobsters, 2 cuttlefish, grey mullet, 2 pipefish, 3 nudis, large shoals of sand eels, lots of baby bib, pollock, rock cook, bream, wrasse including one large wrasse, spider, edible and velvet swimmer crabs, sea squirts.
Other Observer Comments:

Chesil Beach Cove, 08/11/2012

Observer Name: Gerry White
Observation Start Time: 11.06
Observation End Time: 11.55
Weather Conditions: Sunny with light onshore breeze
Depth of Observations (indicate meters or feet): 16.5m
Water Visibility (high, medium, low): Medium (3-6m)
Water Turbidity (high, medium, low): Medium
Water Current Direction:Non
Water Current Speed (high, medium, low): No current
Water Temperature (indicate C or F): 17c
Notable Flora:
Notable Fauna:Lots of boring cponges, sea orange, elephant hide sponge, potato crisp bryozooon, cuttlefish, 2 pipefish, pollock, sandeels, edible, spider and velvet swimming crabs, bib, wrasse and lobster.
Other Observer Comments:Interesting to see a cuttlefish come past with a pipefish in its mouth! Thought the viz would have started to improve after trying different times of the day but it did not.

Chesil Beach Cove, 08/09/2012

Observer Name:  Gerry and Angel
Observation Start Time: 16:54
Observation End Time: 17:44
Weather Conditions: Sunny and flat calm
Depth of Observations (indicate meters or feet): 10.4m
Water Visibility (high, medium, low): Medium (3-6m)
Water Turbidity (high, medium, low): Medium
Water Current Direction: Non
Water Current Speed (high, medium, low): Non
Water Temperature (indicate C or F): 17C
Notable Flora:
Notable Fauna:2 lobsters, 1 of them large. 1 cuttlefish, wrasse and bib.
Other Observer Comments:Stayed over the small piece of wreckage for some time, very pretty in good light.