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 This was the 2nd dive on the trip. Saw some sharks (reef and white tip), a black jack and a lot of different fish 14 views |
 For those believing that sharks are mindless, ferocious, man-eating monsters, this video and others like it should serve to show that they are beautiful and majestic creatures. We dived with Oceanic Black Tips and Tiger Sharks for an hour and never felt threatened. This is an experience I would recommend to any scuba diver! Make your way to Africa and go hang out with the SHARKS!!! 36 views |
 i made the first one when dizzy.. so a bit too rushed when made. tak puas hati.. i made another one... hahaha... this is more me. enjoy :D till MY next dive ;) 98 views |
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 HMS Invincible in Action - Exercise Destined Glory 2004 During the exercise HMS Invincible was the flagship for Rear Admiral Styles in his capacity as the Maritime Component Commander of the NATO Response Force. As the exercise proceeded Major General Lynch, the Deployed Joint Task Force Commander, was also embarked in HMS Invincible with elements of his staff. This was the first time that command of the Joint Force had been exercised from sea and it represented an exciting new development in NATO command arrangements. -------- With over 47 ships and 46 aircraft from 11 nations taking part, Destined Glory was the biggest NATO amphibious exercise of the year. It was designed to improve NATO's capability to conduct multinational amphibious and maritime crisis-response operations using the recently established NATO Response Force. The exercise was a key milestone in the development of the Force as it marked the point at which it achieved Initial Operational Capability. 74 views |
 HMS Illustrious returns to the river of her birth, Port of Tyne, North East England on 29th February 2012. This may well be her last visit to the Tyne as she will be decommissioned in early 2014. This information courtesy of Wikipedia @ en.wikipedia.org HMS Illustrious is the second of three Invincible-class light aircraft carriers built for the Royal Navy in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She is the fifth warship and second aircraft carrier to bear the name Illustrious, and is affectionately known as "Lusty" to her crew. The vessel just missed the Falklands Conflict, but was deployed to Iraq and Bosnia in the 1990s and to Sierra Leone in 2000. An extensive re-fit in 2002 meant that she missed the Iraq War, but she was finished in time to assist British citizens trapped by the 2006 Lebanon War. Illustrious, the second of the planned three Invincible class aircraft carriers, was laid down at Swan Hunter on the River Tyne in 1976 and launched in 1978. As the ship neared the end of its fitting out period, the Falklands War broke out. As a consequence, work on Illustrious was greatly speeded up. The war was won before Illustrious could be finished, but she did perform a useful service in the aftermath. Until the RAF airfield on the Falkland Islands was repaired, an aircraft carrier was required on station to protect the area from possible Argentine attack. Invincible had been on station for many months when Illustrious arrived to its relief. Illustrious was needed so quickly ... 1493 views |
 SMS Derfflinger was a battle cruiser (Grosse Kreuzer in German classification) of the German Imperial Navy. She took part in the bombardments of the British coast at Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Hartlepool, participated in three different raids against enemy merchant traffic in the North Sea and took part in the famous battle of Doggerbank (when she crippled HMS Lion with David Beatty aboard), and the battle of Jutland/Skagerrak, where she sank a British battlecruiser(HMS Queen Mary) and shared the distruction of another (HMS Invincible) with the SMS Lutzow. After the war she was scuttled by her own crew at Scapa Flow. 15619 views |
 September 1939. British Movietone News. Survivors of the sinking of the British aircraft carrier, HMS Courageous, are welcomed home. Several present their accounts of escape, including the last one - who claims that the German submarine responsible, the U-29, had been destroyed by depth charges. This - of course - was false. The U-29 escaped unscathed. 1748 views |
 Two 800 sqn Sea Harrier FA2s Taking off of HMS Ark royal in February 2004, this was the last time they embarked with the FA2 before disbanding and reforming with the Harrier GR9. Sadly all now for the scrap heap thanks to so called strategic defence cuts! 1235 views |
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HMS INVINCIBLE - North Sea
Of the dozen or so wrecks from the Battle of Jutland, the wreck of the Invincible is the most spectacular and the most awe-inspiring.
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The Invincible stands out among the other Jutland wrecks because the stern-half of the wreck is upright on the sea bed. Large warships invariably turn turtle when sinking and end up upside-down. Invincible, therefore, is unique among battleship wrecks found at 50m.
A dive starting at the stern and swimming forward is a truly revelatory experience. Here you can actually get a feel for the sheer size of the ships of the Grand Fleet, with their broad sweeping decks and wonderfully graceful lines. After a while the decking gives way to the sight of ‘Y’ turret with its two 27-tonne, 12-inch guns still pointing to starboard. Swimming over the guns, you can look down into the turret, because the roof was blown off when the ship exploded. This reveals that the two breeches are closed and ready to fire. All around the turret are unexploded shells and pieces of the ship.
Everything is on such a huge scale that it simply takes your breath away.
I’ve dived this wreck on five expeditions now. Each time, the wreck has stunned the divers who hadn’t seen it before. Its ability to do this to even the most non-wreck-oriented technical divers is unique in my experience. It simply never fails to impress. While the usually excellent visibility undoubtedly plays its part, there is something exceptionally special about ‘Y’ turret when it looms out of the North Sea gloom.
HMS Invincible sank in May 1916 under the combined fire of two German battle cruisers, exploding in a fireball, which claimed all but one of the 1,027 on board. This makes her one of the Royal Navy’s largest graves. This horrific statistic combined with the wreck’s visual splendour, make it undoubtedly one of the key wreck dives in the northern hemisphere.