{"id":370,"date":"2014-03-09T14:24:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T14:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/?p=370"},"modified":"2014-03-09T14:24:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T14:24:40","slug":"fort-bovisand-trip-plymouth-october-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/?p=370","title":{"rendered":"Fort Bovisand Trip &#8211; Plymouth October 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>East Cheshire ran a trip to the South Coast chartering two boats for a series of late season dives.\u00a0 bringing divers from both Cheshire and Richmond near London. Although late in the season we were very lucky with excellent weather and the best UK viz we had seen for two years.<\/p>\n<p>We used Discovery Divers based out of Fort Bovisand and got to stay on site next to the atmospheric old battery (the old fort).\u00a0 Some of the abandoned buildings are pretty spooky and a number of us explored the old abandoned naval diving centre which is rather reminiscent of a Zombie film set!\u00a0 Thankfully the diving was not quite as scary and we had 5 excellent dives over the weekend with dives on the James Eagan Layne, the Scylla and out on Hands Deep (a 50m reef, with viz so good we did not need torches at 50m) as well as the famous Eddystone Reef next to the lighthouse.\u00a0 Visibility was over 10 meters and all of our dives were excellent with lots of marine life and calm seas.<\/p>\n<p>Videos of this year&#8217;s dives are now on YouTube:<br \/>\nReef diving<\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"Plymouth Reefs 2013\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KvNt7SRSm2U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Wreck of the Scylla<\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"Diving the Scylla Wreck - penetration into the lower levels\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K702fKYmwKE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>East Cheshire ran a trip to the South Coast chartering two boats for a series of late season dives.\u00a0 bringing divers from both Cheshire and Richmond near London. Although late in the season we were very lucky with excellent weather and the best UK viz we had seen for two years. We used Discovery Divers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}