Diving The Dimi

(Only breathe on the fffff lines,
teeth together and lips apart,
suck air audibly in through your teeth.)

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dump some air dump some more
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8 pounds extra not too cold should be able to get down
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there feel it go no shot line gently silence except
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Brendon right in front of me its all gone here now
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down slowly sea bed approaching rocks pebbles weedy bits
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only 6 metres or so pressure in my ears
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pinch nose breathe into it hard pressure goes mussels cling
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to the mast pressure more pressure clear ears again goes again
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8 metres pressure almost double now on the
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bottom pump air into my dry suit get my
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buoyancy float a metre above the bottom but heavy
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pump some more that's good weightless but
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the current is strong the 'Dimi' the
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Dimitrius all around me what left of it current is
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strong grab a huge piece of steel easier
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then trying to swim against it Greek cargo ship
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towed for scrap caught in a storm foundered
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Redcar Rocks which rocks? Pardon Bank?
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East Scar? stuck in Jenny Leighs? a little channel
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220 bar thats OK 8 metres visibility not so
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bad 2 or 3 metres pastel colours encrustations white
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easy for me and Bren to see each other metal
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ribs huge steel plates some vertical rubber in my
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mouth cold air cold murky water on my face jagged
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steel to cut and tear gloves neoprene for
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warmth get cut and snagged crab big crab more
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shell fish some sea weed no fish bubbles scare
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them off not like the tropics not as easy as
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dry suit under suit gloves hood mask is
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mask is filling with water breath out through nose with
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mask raised to clear it fit back Demitrius Hendrika
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Montauban all on the rocks other further out 40
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metres or so prop shaft somewhere here totally lost
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but Brendon knows where we are spare propeller flat
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on the 3 metres vertical plates soft coral and
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looks familiar been here already? doing a figure
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of 8 more metal current too strong hang on
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hang on follow Bren more jagged plates the
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lea of the current easier 150 bar OK still 8 metres
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haven't looked at the compass plenty of air huge mass
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of steel the boiler? but Bren signals up
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dump some air from my suit fin up gently one
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minute to the surface pressure bubbles in my ears screeching
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not deep enough to get a bend almost though see
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the surface can't see through it getting lighter sun lighter
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I'm getting lighter pressure dropping air expands
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surface breaks waves sounding boats slapping
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water voices the RIB down current takes us to it
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leave the reg in for safety grab the side rope
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hang on catch my breath
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now drop the reg
pass up my weights
release the dry suit pressure hose
pump some more air into my BC
release its clips
twist out of it
on the RIB
they haul up my BC and tank
fin up hard and
fall into the RIB
Dimi's mast top
just before me
Pardon Bank
East Scar
further dry green grey
High Stone right