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Devonshire's Last Commission 1976 - 78
- By Robby G
- Published 05/18/2008
- HMS Devonshire
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THE DIVING TEAM
What can one say about diving! Most of the time the team dives in cold, murky Portsmouth water attempting to block or unblock some of the Shipwright's inlets. How the team manfully suffered these uninteresting dives against the promise of a diving 'banyan'.
Life looked up as the team prepared itself for the diving in the beautifully clear waters of the Spanish Main. Thoughts of Spanish treasure galleons had absolutely nothing to do with the tremendous upsurge in diving
interest! Reflections on shark and barracuda infested waters somewhat dampened enthusiasm and advice from the 'experts' to swim towards interested sharks and punch them on the nose in order to discourage them was treated with suspicion.
There are two jobs programmed for the team on this last trip. One is to blast a channel to a jetty on the island of Barbuda and the other is to raise a wreck in English Harbour, Antigua.
Finally, to end - the 40 HP outboard engine belongs to the Boats Officer not the diving team.
What can one say about diving! Most of the time the team dives in cold, murky Portsmouth water attempting to block or unblock some of the Shipwright's inlets. How the team manfully suffered these uninteresting dives against the promise of a diving 'banyan'.
Life looked up as the team prepared itself for the diving in the beautifully clear waters of the Spanish Main. Thoughts of Spanish treasure galleons had absolutely nothing to do with the tremendous upsurge in diving
There are two jobs programmed for the team on this last trip. One is to blast a channel to a jetty on the island of Barbuda and the other is to raise a wreck in English Harbour, Antigua.
Finally, to end - the 40 HP outboard engine belongs to the Boats Officer not the diving team.