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and chosen by Leigh Bishop
For the first time the writing of established shipwreck and
technical diving author Leigh Bishop appears collectively
on Deep Image. Read in depth articles about famous shipwrecks,
their discoveries and diving expeditions as well as historically
important sites of interest. Specialists in deep wreck photography
we ensure to bring you images of the wrecks as they are today.
Detailed information as to the wrecks condition and of course
where YOU can find the path to diving the wrecks yourselves.
Leigh Bishop is a regular contributor to both DIVER &
990, specialist scuba publications in the UK so ensure to
keep a look out for future articles in both these magazines.
Look out
for more articles to come soon including Lusitania and
Britannic as well as never seen before images of many
wrecks that the publishers never chose exclusive only
on Deep Image. Coming also technical articles on mixed
gas blending and of course articles that never went
to the publishers. Its all here on the site that challenges
to exceed the limits of ocean exploration. |
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Please remember all text and images are copyright to Leigh Bishop,
feel free to read our copyright details for more information.
If you wish to use my work why not contact
me, alternatively you may wish Leigh Bishop to write or
research something about shipwrecks for your project.
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Coming soon The great Ocean liners Lusitania,
Britannic, Justicia, transylvania, Laurentic. Several other
serious deep ocean liner expeditions are currently being
planned, deepimage is the site where
of course you will be able to read and see the images as
and when they are brought to the surface.
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Starfish Enterprise Deep Wreck diving team
Article looks into a decade of sport diving exploration
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most successful wreck diving teams. From the earliest days of
European mixed gas diving for mainstream sport divers the Starfish
diving team have explored famous shipwrecks around the world.
Beginning with the 300ft deep Lusitania off the south coast
of Ireland to the Britannic off Greece in 1998. This is the
story of the team editited by Christina Campbell and written
by Leigh Bishop from the early days through to 2002. Read about
like minded individuals who met through different walks of life
and changed sport diving history. Click
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Frozen Tears
'Wilhelm Gustloff' The Nazi Liner that took more
than 7700 people to their death in WW2
SHIPWRECK
At the end of WWII the Nazi ocean liner Wilhelm Gustloff was
sunk by a soviet submarine. When she sank she took with her
the lives of over 7700 people escaping the eastern front. The
sinking of the Gustloff became the worlds worst marti me disaster
hallmarking the history books for the end of the Nazi regime.
During May of 2003 US diver Mike Boring led an expedition to
film and photograph the wreck. Borings team consisted of UK
and US divers alongside Polish. Read the full story of the expedition
and their adventure as the divers travelled to Northern Poland
to explore the wreck in the cold waters of the Baltic sea.
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The Stern Section of the Gustloff as she lie
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Conspiracy Of Silence
To follow on from the Story of the ship wrecked Wilhelm Gustloff
Shipwreck Treasure
During world war two the Nazis were looted many treasures from
several country's they invaded. A priceless haul of Amber panels
was among treasures they looted from the Russians. The panels
once lined the walls of Russian castles and palaces Known as
the Amber Room its fame spread world wide. Many believe the
treasure was loaded aboard the Nazi Liner Wilhelm Gustloff as
she fled the break down of the Eastern Front with refugees.
7700 people lost their lives when the ship sank but did the
looted Amber go to the bottom of the Baltic sea with them. Find
out more from this report from the team that investigated the
wreck. Click
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Any Colour as long as its black and white
A special feature on the subject of ambient light shipwreck photography
PHOTOGRAPHY
Capturing images of shipwrecks that work well is an art in
itself. Trying desperately to light large sections of shipwreck
can often be frustrating, especially with artificial light
when waters are often blessed with particles that incur backscatter.
This article is focused towards using available light even
at depth to photograph big wrecks. Check out some of the images
here as well, you will be able to click on the majority of
them to get a larger and better perspective. Remember any
colour here as long as its black & white! Read
more
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Deep Shipwreck Photography
An Introductory to techniques and equipment
PHOTOGRAPHY
Many people ask me how I manage to capture some of the images
I have on display on this website as well as the dozens I have
published in magazines over the years. Now you can read yourself
as I have incorporated many FAQ within an online article over
the issues of deep wreck photography. This article is aimed
specifically at those with an interest in the approach to deep
shipwreck stills photography. Click
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Smyrna Historic Clipper Ship Discovery
SHIPWRECK
During the summer wreck diving season of 1993 a classic Clipper
shipwreck was discovered by a team of British Deep wreck divers
off the English coastline. The team later went on to positively
identify the wreck as that of the lost Smyrna of 1888. Leigh
Bishop was with the team when the discovery of one of the
only known Clippers in the English Channel made history. Read
here all about this fantastic wreck dive and see underwater
images of the wreck as well as many of the fine examples of
artifacts recovered from 190ft depth.
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RMS Egypt Gold Shipwreck technical diving Expedition
SHIPWRECK
The Ocean P&O liner 'Egypt' sank in 1922, she carried
cargo which included 1,083,527 sterling in gold and silver bullion
and specie approx. 10-tons of silver and 5-tons of gold! Today's
equivalent of over 56 million US Dollars! In 2001 the Starfish
Enterprise deep wreck diving team became the first technical
divers to visit the wreck. During the 1930's one of history's
most incredible salvage attempts recovered most of the gold
and silver. Leigh Bishop was with
the Starfish team that dived the wreck in 2001 & 2002 when
he brought home the first images of the wreck from a depth of
420ft! Read this incredible treasure story and see images of
the wreck and salvage job as well as images from the 2001-2002
technical diving expeditions. Click
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HMS Audacious Photographic Expedition
SHIPWRECK
The image to the right shows a single awesome 13.5inch gun and
turret of HMS Audacious sunk in 218ft depth off North
West Ireland, north Atlantic Ocean. The 23,000-ton Dreadnought
Audacious was the first major loss to the British Fleet during
the Great war. Click
here to visit an extensive image gallery of how the wreck
looks today, archive images of the ship sinking as well as all
the relative historic information. |
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HMS Charybdis Technical diving Expedition
SHIPWRECK
HMS Charybdis sunk in 280ft depth
during WW2 after she was hit by torpedo fired from German Elbing
Class boats. Today this British 7500-ton anti aircraft light
cruiser lies a the bottom of the English Channel. The wreck
remains within reasonable condition and was extensively photographed
by Leigh Bishop during Keith Morris's 2001 technical diving
expedition to the site. Click
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HMS Limbourne Technical diving Expedition
| HMS Limbournes bridge bell lying in the sand seabed deep in
the English channel at 280ft depth. Limbourne a British Hunt
class destroyer was lost on the same night as HMS Charybdis
when acting against enemy action as part of Operation Tunnel.
During 2002 Keith Morris's Charybdis 2001 team returned to French
waters with survivors of both shipwrecks to search for HMS Limbourne.
Read the complete story here
of Operation Tunnel and see expedition galleries, archive
galleries and images of how the divers found the wreck taken
by deep wreck photographer Leigh Bishop.
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Deep Wreck Diving In Ireland
| Looking for some of the best deep wreck diving in the world
look no further its all here on deep image. During the Mid to
late 90's Alan Wright discovered many historically important
shipwrecks lost in deeper waters off Malin Head north west Ireland.
In recent years many deep British wreck divers have made this
a No1 destination after Gavin Haywood & Dan Stevenson chartered
the first of many expeditions to the area aboard Loyal Watcher
(pictured right) Although the wrecks had been fully explored
Leigh Bishop set out to Photograph these wrecks for the first
time using monochrome film. Click
here to read more about diving the wrecks of Malin Head.
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TITANIC
Two and a half miles below the Atlantic Ocean lies the most
famous of shipwrecks RMS Titanic. DeepImage now brings you the
2003 scientific expedition to the site.
Read
the full story here
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