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Leigh Bishop Presents Feb 23 NUIG/GMIT Sub Aqua Club

'British Wreck Diving'

British Wreck Diving

A fascinating look behind the scenes of traditional wreck diving around the UK & Ireland.

Deep wreck diver Leigh Bishop is well known for deep shipwreck expedition diving, documenting wrecks such as the Lusitania, Titanic, Britannic and the Gold Liner Egypt.

Behind the big expeditions he devotes his time to photographing and filming some of the thousands of wrecks sunk around the British Isles, over the years he has explored aprox. 400 virgin wrecks many of them in the English Channel.

This presentation promises to delve deep into the world of the British wreck diving scene, an opportunity to taste what it’s like searching for and diving virgin shipwrecks as well as how they and their team go about it. This presentation is about extended range technical diving that many divers are involved in, with of course a little humour.

See some of the first images of recently discovered shipwrecks such as a fantastic colonial wreck from 1869 and some of the artifacts recovered from her which include her fabulous TWO bells!!. Go behind the scenes with the discovery of the Flying Enterprise and other significant UK discovery’s. Images will be show of many channel wrecks mostly within the technical diving range as well as fascinating monochrome photographs of shipwrecks off northern Ireland.

This show will be of interest to all levels of wreck diver from beginner to the most advanced; a show displaying tried and tested techniques, methods, configurations, team approach, research and identification.

Leigh Bishop

Rich in stills photography both above and below surface the audience will also see just some of the artifacts that have been recovered from virgin wrecks from stunning ships bells to the most unusual of finds.

As well as 35mm photography the audience will be treated to some never before seen digital footage of significant British wrecks filmed by Kevin Pickering, surely a presentation that has been missing from scuba diving audiences, that is, until now."