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M2 and Lyme Bay – Weymouth
16th July 2016 - 17th July 2016
Scimitar http://www.scimitardiving.co.
HMS M2 was a Royal Navy submarine monitor completed in 1919, converted in 1927 into the world’s first submarine aircraft carrier. She was shipwrecked in Lyme Bay, Dorset, Britain, on 26 January 1932. She was one of three M-class boats completed.
The submarine currently lies upright on the sea bed at (50°34.6′N 2°33.93′W). Her keel is about 100 ft (30 m) below the surface at low tide, and her highest point at the top of the conning tower at around 66 ft (20 m). She is a popular dive for scuba divers. The wreck is designated as a “protected place” under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986.
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Conditions permitting we will be diving the M2 on the sunday – ropes off at 7am – ouch! (as the Sunday slacks are 9am or 1pm with the early one the better one as the later one does still run a bit) so it is an early start. Hotel Aqua will prepare us packed breakfasts in lieu of the full english.
The M2 is a deep (32m to the bottom) and dark dive. So it would be advisable to have been doing some depth progression on the dives leading up top that weekend. It would also be advisable to use nitrox 32 to extend bottom time and for a margin of safety. I would also suggest 15litre tanks and ponies if you have them or using twin configurations. Scimitar does not have an onboard compressor so you will need at least two tanks. Fills are available onshore when diving finished on saturday.