ricki
01-08-2013, 05:20 PM
57017875
First a video of several free dives on the Ancient Mariner, passing over and through several parts of the wreck.
and now some still shots taken with the new GoPro Hero 3 camera.
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/Ancient%20Mariner%20VR%20%20%20s.jpg?m=1357700735 (http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/albums/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/Ancient%20Mariner%20VR%20%20%20s.jpg?m=1357700734)
A composite of screen captures from GoPro3 video of the wreck.
(CLICK photo for full sized image)
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/albums/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/AM%2032.jpg?m=1357686859
We went out with Dixie Diver.
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/AM%2034.jpg?m=1357686861
Looking forward from aft of the wheelhouse. I understand waves and currents related to Hurricane Sandy caused those plates to buckle resulting in the settling of the house. Tropical systems can propagate tremendous wave forces underwater over long distances.
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/40.jpg?m=1357700734
Moving along with two GoPros on a Quikpod Monopod and a third one in my hand to capture varied perspectives.
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/am5%20GOPR7661.jpg?m=1357686772
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/rick%20drop.jpg?m=1357686772
Scooter free diving down to the wreck.
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/AM%2033%20G0030440.jpg?m=1357686861
The stern
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/38%20G0071155.jpg?m=1357686851
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/wreck%20scooter%20GOPR7651.jpg?m=1357686782
Passing below decks
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/37%20G0061013.jpg?m=1357686852
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/confined%20space%20GOPR1187.jpg?m=1357686771
Heading into the wheelhouse
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/ancient%20mariner%20GOPR7271.jpg?m=1357686780
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/36%20G0020256.jpg?m=1357686852
Coming up on the bow
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/shark0.jpg?m=1357686784
We drifted dove the west facing ledge of the third reef in about 50 ft. of water on the second dive. This six foot shark showed up briefly during the dive.
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/35%20G0050783.jpg?m=1357686853
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/shark2.jpg?m=1357686787
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/stern%20G0050704%20%20s.jpg?m=1357706394
The aft section
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/shark3.jpg?m=1357686786
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/AM%2031%20G0010102.jpg?m=1357686858
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/Shark1.jpg?m=1357686815
This is what this USCG site has to say about the origins of the Ancient Mariner originally as the SS Nemesis, commissioned in 1934.
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/WPC-111_Nemesis%20ibiblio.org.gif?m=1357687237
WPC-111 Nemesis
Argo class Patrol Cutter:
Displacement: 350 tons (full load)
Length: 165'
Beam: 25'3"
Draft: 10'
Speed: 16 knots
Armament: 2 3"/50 DP, 2 20mm AA, 2 depth charge tracks, 2 depth charge projectors, 2 rocket launchers
Complement: 7 officers, 68 enlisted
Diesel engines, twin screws; 1,340 hp
Built at Marietta Manufacturing Co., Point Pleasant, W. Va., and commissioned 10 October 1934
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/WPC/WPC-111_Nemesis.html
The vessel was descommissioned in ??? and
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/%20iamlasolas.com.jpg?m=1357686772
www.iamlasolas.com
The restaurant Livingstons Landing on New River just to the northeast of the courthouse which opened in 1979. It had been remodeled to look like a three deck African steamer increasing seating area and given the vessel a decidedly strange look. It closed in 1981 and reopened at the Ancient Mariner. Some of the bilges flooded causing the vessel to capsize at the dock laying on its port side on the bottom. They undertook a major salvage job to right it. I recall that they buried massive concrete deadmen in the ground to serve as holdfasts for several large winches. They secured the cables to the vessel and winched it vertical again.
We ate onboard three or so times over the years and thankfully never became ill. It was a popular restaurant until a kitchen worker spread hepatitis to 109 people served on the vessel. This set a world record and putting the restaurant out of business in short order. It was eventually sold and converted to an artificial reef and subsequently sunk in 70 ft. of water southeast of the Deerfield Beach fishing pier in 1991.
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/albums/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/AM%204.jpg?m=1357686780
.
First a video of several free dives on the Ancient Mariner, passing over and through several parts of the wreck.
and now some still shots taken with the new GoPro Hero 3 camera.
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/Ancient%20Mariner%20VR%20%20%20s.jpg?m=1357700735 (http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/albums/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/Ancient%20Mariner%20VR%20%20%20s.jpg?m=1357700734)
A composite of screen captures from GoPro3 video of the wreck.
(CLICK photo for full sized image)
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/albums/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/AM%2032.jpg?m=1357686859
We went out with Dixie Diver.
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/AM%2034.jpg?m=1357686861
Looking forward from aft of the wheelhouse. I understand waves and currents related to Hurricane Sandy caused those plates to buckle resulting in the settling of the house. Tropical systems can propagate tremendous wave forces underwater over long distances.
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/40.jpg?m=1357700734
Moving along with two GoPros on a Quikpod Monopod and a third one in my hand to capture varied perspectives.
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/am5%20GOPR7661.jpg?m=1357686772
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/rick%20drop.jpg?m=1357686772
Scooter free diving down to the wreck.
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/AM%2033%20G0030440.jpg?m=1357686861
The stern
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/38%20G0071155.jpg?m=1357686851
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/wreck%20scooter%20GOPR7651.jpg?m=1357686782
Passing below decks
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/37%20G0061013.jpg?m=1357686852
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/confined%20space%20GOPR1187.jpg?m=1357686771
Heading into the wheelhouse
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/ancient%20mariner%20GOPR7271.jpg?m=1357686780
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/36%20G0020256.jpg?m=1357686852
Coming up on the bow
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/shark0.jpg?m=1357686784
We drifted dove the west facing ledge of the third reef in about 50 ft. of water on the second dive. This six foot shark showed up briefly during the dive.
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/35%20G0050783.jpg?m=1357686853
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/shark2.jpg?m=1357686787
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/stern%20G0050704%20%20s.jpg?m=1357706394
The aft section
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/shark3.jpg?m=1357686786
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/AM%2031%20G0010102.jpg?m=1357686858
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/Shark1.jpg?m=1357686815
This is what this USCG site has to say about the origins of the Ancient Mariner originally as the SS Nemesis, commissioned in 1934.
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/WPC-111_Nemesis%20ibiblio.org.gif?m=1357687237
WPC-111 Nemesis
Argo class Patrol Cutter:
Displacement: 350 tons (full load)
Length: 165'
Beam: 25'3"
Draft: 10'
Speed: 16 knots
Armament: 2 3"/50 DP, 2 20mm AA, 2 depth charge tracks, 2 depth charge projectors, 2 rocket launchers
Complement: 7 officers, 68 enlisted
Diesel engines, twin screws; 1,340 hp
Built at Marietta Manufacturing Co., Point Pleasant, W. Va., and commissioned 10 October 1934
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/WPC/WPC-111_Nemesis.html
The vessel was descommissioned in ??? and
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/resizes/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/%20iamlasolas.com.jpg?m=1357686772
www.iamlasolas.com
The restaurant Livingstons Landing on New River just to the northeast of the courthouse which opened in 1979. It had been remodeled to look like a three deck African steamer increasing seating area and given the vessel a decidedly strange look. It closed in 1981 and reopened at the Ancient Mariner. Some of the bilges flooded causing the vessel to capsize at the dock laying on its port side on the bottom. They undertook a major salvage job to right it. I recall that they buried massive concrete deadmen in the ground to serve as holdfasts for several large winches. They secured the cables to the vessel and winched it vertical again.
We ate onboard three or so times over the years and thankfully never became ill. It was a popular restaurant until a kitchen worker spread hepatitis to 109 people served on the vessel. This set a world record and putting the restaurant out of business in short order. It was eventually sold and converted to an artificial reef and subsequently sunk in 70 ft. of water southeast of the Deerfield Beach fishing pier in 1991.
http://www.fksa.org/gallery3/var/albums/Florida/Admin-File/album346/album348/Ancient-Mariner-Dive-1.6.13/AM%204.jpg?m=1357686780
.