Category Archive: Diving Stories

Jan 30

Seabed mapping reveals rich legacy of shipwrecks

New seabed mapping data is helping the Government’s underwater archaeologists to update and expand their inventories of shipwrecks   By Éibhir Mulqueen   Completion of seabed mapping of Irish coastal waters together with the recent publication of a first volume of a Shipwreck Inventory of Ireland represents good news for Irish scuba diving. Together the …

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Dec 06

Raising the Lusitania’s ammunition

At 88 metres, the wreck of the Lusitania is a challenging dive. But Irish divers have made a series of trips to the historic site off the Old Head of Kinsale, culminating in one when some of the ship’s controversial ammunition cargo was recovered, writes Timmy Carey, Blackwater Sub Aqua Club   In May 1915 …

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Nov 29

Diving the Asgard II

In 2010 a group of CFT divers became the first people to see the Asgard II lying on the seabed at 84 metres after it mysteriously sank in the Bay of Biscay two years before. Expedition member Timmy Carey gave this account.   In September 2008, an iconic part of maritime Ireland silently and tacitly …

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Nov 29

50 years’ a-diving

CFT’s oldest active diver remembers a 50-year journey   Ronnie Hurley of Limerick Sub Aqua Club, turned 80 in 2012, proving that age is no barrier to scuba diving. Ronnie has been diving for over 50 years in Irish waters and is one of the pioneers of scuba diving as a hobby. In his own …

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