Two piers, wreck and small reef 11/11/06

[alexmaclennan]

Wild day with high wind, lots of rain, and white horses on the waves in Upper Loch Long.

Below the water, it was very different. Viz 3 to 5m and no appreciable difference between the fresh water that must be layering on top and the salt below. Temp still 11 degrees.

This time we found the wreck. Follow the 14m contour after passing through the two piers and you'll come to the wreck. Its is about 7 or 8m and all that's left is a little bit of the bow and a couple of ribs - more a skeleton than wreck. Lots of anemones, sea squirts and worms on the spars.

The reef is only 20m further away. Again lots of life on and under the boulders/rocks, a couple of big congers, bib, gobies, edible crabs.

Lots of clabby doos on the silty sand.

alex

[Eddie]

Hi Alex

Where abouts in Loch Long? Arrochar?

[alexmaclennan]

Eddie,

Two Piers is already on the Divesite Descriptions part of the forum.

The Two Piers divesite is just before you come to Conger Alley. If you look half way down the long straight at the top of the hill after the Cobbler carpark you see the Piers. You pass them every time you go to CA.

I've got a revised divesite description en route to Gord for posting on the site with updated UW map and instructions.

alex

[Dive Tramp]

You'll find them all over the place, Loch Long, Fyne, Leven, Goil, pretty much everywhere.

[triplefin]

this is a very nice little dive, the boat looks quite ghostly as there is so little of it left and this is covered in white loch anemones and white sea squirts which just gives it a white outline that appears out of the gloom

[Glasgowbuddha]

Been here on 2 or 3 occasions and never seen the wreck

[tomy2tums]

A lovely dive Alex.

I do miss it and The Caves.