{"id":614,"date":"2009-09-29T04:05:57","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T12:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=614"},"modified":"2009-09-30T03:54:04","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T11:54:04","slug":"diving-the-breda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/diving-the-breda\/","title":{"rendered":"Diving the Breda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/ph_breda.jpg\" alt=\"ph_breda\" title=\"ph_breda\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-616 colorbox-614\" \/><br \/>\nSecond dive this morning with a full face mask (training for Antartica)- slowly getting use to it and to the tagline to the surface bouy. I am driving my buddy mad (I am sure) constantly getting tangled in the line and wrapping myself around them! The water is still very warm at 13C I am slightly missing the kelp forests of Monterey. <\/p>\n<p>We dove on the Breda today below is a video that some other divers took of the wreck. The visibility was really great until a few other buddy pairs came down and the silt was kicked up.<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ja5Fvlm0eYk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ja5Fvlm0eYk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The 6,941gt SS Breda is perhaps one of Scotland&#8217;s most famous and most popular wrecks.  She sits upright on an even keel in a sheltered bay near Oban, and is easily located and dived.  She was built in 1921 in the Netherlands and traded until she became a victim of World War II. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shipwrecksofscotland.com\/ss_breda.htm\">Click for more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The third dive (second of the day) we went to look for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.habitas.org.uk\/marinelife\/species.asp?item=X430\">brachiopods<\/a> which 350 million years ago ruled the sea. Unfortunately we did not find any however, there were many <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Squat_lobster\">squat lobsters<\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/180px-galathea_strigosa_02_by_line1.jpg\" alt=\"180px-galathea_strigosa_02_by_line1\" title=\"180px-galathea_strigosa_02_by_line1\" width=\"180\" height=\"152\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-625 colorbox-614\" \/>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glaucus.org.uk\/Dogfish.htm\">dogfish egg<\/a>. The scenery was amazing with mist rolling over the hills. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second dive this morning with a full face mask (training for Antartica)- slowly getting use to it and to the tagline to the surface bouy. I am driving my buddy mad (I am sure) constantly getting tangled in the line and wrapping myself around them! The water is still very warm at 13C I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antarctic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}