View Full Version : The Pier at the Creggans Hotel
Dont rate this site much although the fishermen like it. I saw a small shoal of mackeral and the usual dab and lepord spotted gobi and some big conger. But not much for a 65min dive. The highlight of the dive was in 2m at the end of the dive, two lions mane jellys floated by. They remind me of women beautiful but have a sting!!! Its a dangerous dance getting a close as possible without getting stung. this is one of my pictures.....
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j62/johnnicolson/Temp%20folder/P9107382a.jpg
What do u think?
An apree dive was had at the Creggans hotel then....
Morag introduced me to to a guy who bought two ROVs of e-bay, you have probably seen them at a house just leaving st catherins two big yellow ROVs that look like small 1 man subs. Amazing bits of kit that can do 5 knots under thier own power. and have special low light video cameras. The things u can get on e-bay....
Look at the shell on the crab
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j62/johnnicolson/Temp%20folder/P9107316a.jpg
Whats growing on the shell?
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j62/johnnicolson/Temp%20folder/P9107343a.jpg
A clue it was at 28 meters
A clue it was at 28 meters
SOme sort of ice-cream?
It's a Pachycerianthus (Fireworks) anemone.... but it's all coiled up. Someone probably gave it a good poke ;)
Lizardland
11-09-06, 10:23
Amazing bits of kit that can do 5 knots under thier own power
Yeah but you should see their power-packs :) The biggies have hydraulic motors that run off high voltage generators. Great things to play with though... except if you tie the umbilical around a ladder (oops). I did a week of ROV training as part of my MSc a few years ago.
The new ones don't even have an umbilical, they have a PC on-board, program them with a mission, chuck them in the water, they disappear and come home later with all the data. There are even ones that float to the surface in daytime, charge their solar batteries and then dive at night -- they can stay away for months at a time and then come home with tonnes of survey info.
Cheers,
Stuart
Big brother watching u underwater!!! have any of u guys dived at the creggans pier? In the hotel there r pictures of paddle steamers at the pier and usually u get stuff droped from them on the seabed. But I found nothing of interest. :(
It's a Pachycerianthus (Fireworks) anemone.... but it's all coiled up. Someone probably gave it a good poke ;)
Was the depth the givaway
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j62/johnnicolson/Scotland/29Fireworkanemone.jpg
Or did u recognise it?
alexmaclennan
11-09-06, 11:25
Ding - are you going to write it up as a divesite for CA?. I think the slope bottoms out at below 50m.
alex
Ding - are you going to write it up as a divesite for CA?. I think the slope bottoms out at below 50m.
alex
Ok but I think its only a training site......