New Wreck in St.Martin

I was Captain for a Private Boat Charter yesterday, it was great and made a change from diving. I took a family for a tour around St.Martin, snorkeling and sight seeing. We saw two dolphins who decided to play under the boat for a while which was great. We also came accross a film shoot for a new boat. The 80 foot boat was driving extremely fast, maybe 50 knots followed by a helicopter with a cameraman hanging out the side !! It was great especially when he used our boat for a perspective shot - wished I had a camera!

Whilst on our travels I spotted a large white buoy in the channel between St.Martin and Anguilla, so we went and checked it out. About 60 - 70 feet down, past the shoals of Horse eye jacks, Barracuda and yellow tails we saw the wreck.

Some of you may know that last year Sim ( better known as Baab) and his Girlfriend Helen were staying with us from the UK for a while.
Whilst they were here we went searching the local boat yards for a wreck and the first one we found was a 47 foot yacht !! Costing only 175 Euro's we decided to "Acquire" it and get it ready for sinking.

Due to the risk of pollution the entire electrical system, A/C and refrigeration system needed to be ripped out and to allow safe penetration by divers, we removed most of the interior panels. Two days work in 36 degree temeprature with no breeze..... it was rather hot to say the least.
Then we used fibre glass to seal the hull so we could tow her to the dive site and sink her.

To cut a long story short, another dive centre on the FRENCH side heard about this and stole the wreck from us - nice eh?? They sank it and failed to tell us its location.

But now we have found her and it was proudly named "Sally's Wreck" - you can imagine the trouble I would be in if I named it Chris' wreck.

So now we have another reef and of course there are lots and lots of sharks in this area - yeahhh!

So next time any of our followers are diving with us, we will take you out and show you our new wreck.

The weather at the moment is fantastic and we are all diving the cave systems at Tintamarre tomorrow afternoon, Me, Sally, Roman, Cody Cox and JP is staying dry on the surface - should be great.
Then we are going to dive the new wreck ! We will update as soon as we can with photos.

Thats all for now, so its back to work for me.

Chris