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Explore sunken battleships of the Atlantic
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Explore deep inside shipwrecks! Britannic,
Titanic's Sister |
Explore Titanic aboard a Russia submersible
2.5 mile deep |
Filming the impossible, with HSE commercial
cameramen |
With Hundreds of pages of expedition reports, features and photographs to read we welcome you to Deep Image
and hope that you find these pages of interest. With 1,000's of photographs still to load we hope you can find time to come back and enjoy some of the expeditions have reported as well as taking a preview of some of the expeditions we will
be actively involved in the near future.
Many thanks Leigh Bishop 2008
Scientific work on Titanic
Life at the Bottom of the Ocean
Deep image presents this article as an introduction to the science
research carried out at several deep shipwreck sites in recent years. This is an in depth scientific analysis of life on Titanic and further in depth science can be found
by following this article. Deep Image photographer Leigh Bishop aboard the Russian vessel Keldysh captured the NOAA expedition which you can read about by following the links above this science feature.
Report and more information including some images click here >>
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Rusticles on Titanic 2.5 miles deep
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NEWS Bullion Ocean Liner gets its own website
Lying at the bottom of the Ocean is the bullion wreck RMS Laurentic off the North Coast of Irleand. Still to this day the wreck holds the record for the most amount of bullion ever recovered from a shipwreck. Lying in only 39m this wreck is a popular site for scuba divers visiting Donegal Ireland. Now for the first time the wrecks owner Mr Des Cossum has commissioned a website entirely devoted to the wreck. click here to go direct to the site >>
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NEW Britannic & Titanic films
(update April 08 this show is still being shown in the History Channel)
Titanic's tragic sister documentary was aired on the 17th Feb and is set to be repeated on the UK History Channel. The film which featured leading British Deep Wreck divers focused on an expedition led by John Chatterton and Richie Kohler to try and unravel some of the mysteries of why she sank so fast. Three times faster than her sister Titanic. A separate full 2 hour special about the design flaw's of Titanic also see the UK divers on this Greek Expedition with different camera angles and different dive missions. Two different documentary's to look out for 'Titanic's Tragic Sister' & Titanic's Achilles Heel.
Titanic's Achilles Heel
On a History Channel expedition, a skilled team of experts attempt to find out if the Titanic had a fatal design flaw.
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RMS Capathia (Titanic Rescue Ship) Expedition
Divers have returned from a successful expedition to dive the RMS Carpathia wreck, the ship that rescued the Titanic survivors which herself sank after a torpedo attack six years after. The wreck lies 300 miles offshore in 514ft/156m of water south west of England. Expedition diver Carl Spencer spoke to deepimage updating the site first hand as soon as the dive vessel got back to England.
Report and more information including some images click here >>
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Carpathia Expedition divers |
The Wreck of the Wilhelm Gustloff
Maritimes worst ever sea disaster
Deep image photographer and deep wreck diver Leigh Bishop traveled to the Baltic Sea to photograph one of the most historic shipwrecks in history the Nazi ocean Liner Wilhelm Gustloff which sank with the loss of an estimated 10,000 people.
Report and more information including some images click here >>
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The tragic Ship Wilhelm Gustloff
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NEWS BALTIC SEA ADVENTURE NEW TV
Technical divers are the subject of a new series entitled Baltic Sea Adventure by Doubled Vision documentary group. A trailer for the TV show can be viewed on line. The series included's Swedish & UK divers.
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Niagara Expedition New Zealand - download news pdf - 
After almost 67 years on the Northland ocean floor,
the bell from the 121m deep gold ship Niagara will finally
ring again after and Australian and UK team of divers
recovered it and other artifacts on during the early
April expedition. The international team of divers had
been exploring the wreck of the Niagara - sunk by two
German mines off the Hen and Chicken Islands on June
19, 1940, with 590 gold bars aboard when they discovered
the prize artifact.
Deep wreck diver Craig Howell of Melbourne Australia
discovered the ornate bell which along with other artifacts
will be preserved in ready for eventual display in a
national museum in New Zealand.
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more and see photos click here >>
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Dive team with historic
artifacts recovered from the gold ship Niagara |
Niagara web update by Dive Tutakaka with more photographs click
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Museum display of recovered wreck artifacts now open
Deep wreck divers Leigh Bishop and Jamie Powell who recovered significant items from the deep wreck 'Flying Enterprise' are to go on display to the public at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall England.
The display has now opened in Falmouth and along with many of the artifacts recovered from the famous wreck a huge private collection of Leigh Bishops personal memorabilia from the sinking will also be on display. Leigh Bishop has spent 100's of hours restoring items such as Captain Carlsens compass binnacle the ships makers plate lamps and portholes. The display also features artifacts recovered by local divers from many other shipwrecks along the Cornish coast.
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Red Sea Wreck Discovered
The Al Qamar Al Saudi Al Misri
Divers have returned from Tekstreme in Sharm Egypt have been exploring the wreck of a ferry which sank just north of the Red Sea resort of Hurghada. The Al Qamar Al Saudi Al Misri was a Ferry Launched in 1970 and was 124.85 metres long with a gross tonnage of 7697. The Ship was used on the route between the ports of Suez in Egypt and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. Paul Vinten told Deep Image the team of divers discovered the wreck site in 83m depth with the top approx 64m depth. A full report with images can be found by following the link below.
Report and more information including some images click here >>
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Diver on the wreck at 64m depth |
US
Tanker shipwreck Illinois
The US tanker 'Illinois' departed
from Port Arthur, Texas, USA on February 17th 1917,
with a cargo consigned to England was on her return
trip laden with ballast. On March 18th Northwest of
Cherbourg and approx. 20 miles north of Alderney in
the very heart of the English Channel and effectively
the center of the war zone between England & Germany
she was sunk by German U-Boat.
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more and see images of the wreck click here |
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Underwater Filming
& photography
Exploring and filming underwater shipwrecks
in the deep ocean is a skill limited to only a few professional
divers in the world. Deepimage commercial cameramen
have been capturing the underwater world on film for
over a decade, only recently have they been qualified
legally under the UK Health & Safety legislation
to offer their skill and expertise to a commercial value.
Today we offer frontline filming tasks, diver safety
& support archive footage of famous shipwrecks and
are available to work on most underwater based projects.
Deepimage Filming Clients include
National Geographic,Channel 5
(UK), BBC, ITN Factual, Carlton Television, September
Films, Earth ship, Lone Wolf Documentary group, Deep
Sea Detectives / History Channel & many more.
DeepImage divers are legally qualified to work and are
now industry known for their specialized and advanced
technical diving which includes deep mixed gas and previously
impossible filming . contact us
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Kriegsmarine U-534, Birkenhead - REPORT
One of the only surviving German U-Boats that was actually salvaged from the sea has at last been photographed. The owner banned internal photography in an effort to cash in once it had been restored now a small team of Urban Explorers have gained entry at night and done the business for us using climbing gear to get up on it.
Full report click here >>
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U-534 at Liverpool |
2nd Hand Expedition Equipment FOR SALE
Gavin Underwater Scooter
Gavin Underwater Scooter; supplied with short and long bodied hulls, batteries and charger.
The Gavin Scooter needs no introduction. For years it has been the backbone of record-breaking cave penetrations in the US and elsewhere and is a very robust and reliable piece of equipment. I have been using the scooter since 2002 and have made dives as deep as 120mtrs on the Britannic.
........>>more info click here
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FOR SALE new & used dive equipment
Lots of used technical dive gear some new lots of bargains to be had............. >>more info click here
Decided to sell some of the equipment I have not used in the last 12 months much of it being back up equipment that has been used very little such as torches, Drysuits, wings & much more ........>>more info click here
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The
Gas Works
Looking for this years Helium Supply?
The gas works at Lakeside in Essex caters
for technical divers and their gas requirements. The
gas works supply Helium and Oxygen in large quantities
and refill your J size cylinders or twin sets at affordable
prices. The Gas works supply gas on a yearly basis to
many of the Uk's leading deep wreck divers and deep
cave divers.
Read more and see images of the Gas Works click here
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