Well with the second bank holiday now with us, you could guarantee it being busy down at the coast with everybody enjoying the extra day off work. We had decided to take a gamble and go on a discovery dive to HMS Afron.

Even searching the internet, there isn’t a lot of information on this wreck but we know it is a trawler that hit a mine or was torpedoed (depending on which story you believe). Having chatted to some divers that had done this dive beforehand, it seems to be a cracking little wreck that isn’t visited that often, perfect for the bank holiday.

Heading out to the dive site, we were blessed with relatively calm seas which made kitting up that much easier. We had arrived with plenty of spare time before slack tide, which was good as the skipper took a couple of attempts to be sure he had shot the wreck correctly. With the first group in (and not coming back to the surface to heckle the skipper about his lack of shoting skills) we were pretty confident that we were going to dive this wonderful wreck.

A couple of things surprised me... the first being the depth (over 5m deeper than planned) but with the right air mix and experienced buddies we carried on. The other thing that hit me was the visibility, it was even better than our dive a month ago at 20m (half the depth). To have this much light and clear visibility at 40m in the UK, we knew we were lucky at this time of the year :o) However it was all too  apparent that this was not the HMS Afron, just a pile of old railway track (about the size of the typical house floor plan and about 3m tall) that was probably lost over board during a storm.

With the usual fishes and conger eels  of the south coast making it home, this turned out to be an interesting little dive (kept short by the deco time) and probably a dive site that most people have never done or are likely to do, giving us all something to write in the log book :o)