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  • 11-05-2004 12:44pm
    #1
    Peace
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    Wreck Detectives... you know it - that show they put on discovery channel. Hands up who thinks they are muppets?

    Seriously, some of the wrecks they dive are flatter than the runway at dublin airport.. i mean ffs lads we're sitting at home looking at something that may be a historic articfact or may be a rock with a piece of sea weed growning out of it! I would imagine the reason they are diving these wood splinters is because they're all a bunch of ladies who haven't got the cojones to go out and dive a decent wreck... like the stuff in scapa flow/numerous Uboat wrecks dotted around the cost of the UK. Now you're talking wreck worth turning on the TV for. Its like watching the time team except underwater... makes my blood boil... They took an excellent idea for a show and ruined by hiring a bunch of fairies to do the diving.

    Examples of where this idea was executed properly woudl be Deep Sea Detectives/Britannic expeditions etc etc.... I'm not all about depth.. i'm all about good wrecks that are intact. An example of this would be the thistlegorm in th red sea... 30m and in excellent condition... sweet wreck.


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  • #2
    Mick L
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 354 ✭✭Mick L


    There's an interview in this months Diver magazine with Miranda Krestovnikoff from the Wreck Detectives pointing out some of the problems they have to deal with when filming and interviewing underwater and how then plan to go deeper in season 2.


  • #3
    Peace
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    Originally posted by Mick L
    how then plan to go deeper in season 2.

    I heard from a reliable source that there has been some technical training thorwn at them. Perhaps they'll say good bye to diving in gravel pits and start diving some intact wrecks.

    This does raise the question of what will they dive. A lot of the show is centered around how the ships were designed and finding out why they sank.... I'd like to see them going for some of the wrecks of WW1 and WW2 or later... It would make for a much more interesting show with cool archive footage and that guy who does all the research (you know the one that never dives), well his section of the program would be more intersting.


  • #4
    NordicDiver
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    Just watching it now on discovery. Today: lost cameraman, lost communication and got entangled in their safety line on a shallow dive, bad viz dough. Can’t wait for them to get into technical diving. Going to be a thriller the next season.


  • #5
    Peace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,758 ✭✭✭Peace


    Originally posted by NordicDiver
    Today: lost cameraman, lost communication and got entangled in their safety line on a shallow dive, bad viz dough. Can’t wait for them to get into technical diving. Going to be a thriller the next season.

    It mayb only be a matter of time before Health and Safety step in and shut them down!


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