One of the divers in todays group had dived this site before but didn’t get to spend a lot of time on the wreck so decided to give it another try.

Research by Paul Hennessey doubts that this is the wreck of the Alice Taylor but as we don’t know what it is, we’ll call it the Alice Talyor for the time being. The wreck is very broken with not many recognisable features only rising about 2 metres clear of the sea bed at its highest point.

• Divers: Hayden, Nick
• Max Depth: 22.2 metres
• Dive Time: 42 minutes
• Water temperature: degrees C
• Viz: metres
• Dive Details:

• Divers: Simon, Jane
• Max Depth: 21.9 metres
• Dive Time: 44 minutes
• Water temperature: 14 degrees C
• Viz: 5 metres
• Dive Details: We were the second pair to dive and by the time we started to descend the shot line, the tide had already started to run a little. When we arrived at the grapple we unhooked it and tied a waster onto a nearby piece of pipe at the edge of the wreck. The visibility was so good that we didn’t need to turn our torches on or use a wreck reel but we could feel the current. There was a large shoal of bib on the wreck, they seemed to be everywhere we looked, I don’t think I’ve seen so many fish on a UK wreck. The shot line was near the middle of the starboard side of the wreck and we did a couple of circuits around the wreck in an anticlockwise direction. I’m fairly sure that I saw the bow (or what was left of it) which was similar to the Rosalie just a curved beam. At the stern I saw a large object that I thought was probably the rudder too, we also saw some bollards but apart from that it was just a jumbled mess of broken wreckage. We also saw some crabs, a little lobster and some wrasse but mainly bib, bib and more bib. There were several abandoned lobster pots on the wreck and lots of rope. The rope turned out to be quite handy as we used it to pull ourselves along towards the end of the dive when the tide had started to run faster. We untied the waster line and the tide took the grapple clear of the wreck.