In classical Latin, the word ūrīnantēs translates as “those who dive”. Primarily focused on UK scuba diving, I feature articles and personal dive logs from home and abroad. This is my my log ‘n’ blog.
Dive Logs UK
![HMS Flirt [+1916] and a Close Container Ship – Dive Log 635](https://scuba.to/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/HMS-Flirt-14-300x169.jpg)
HMS Flirt [+1916] and a Close Container Ship - Dive Log 635
Gesticulating hand signals between ourselves, was that an ascent to 9m and hold for six minutes or an ascent to 6m and hold for nine minutes?
Blenny in the Barrel of a U-Boat Deck Gun - UB-78 Dive Log 619
Along the port side, the submarine seemed encrusted with mussels. I recall taking a GoPro still, looking down the barrel of the deck gun.
![The Douro [+1843] – The Slave Trade Manillas – Dive Log 606](https://scuba.to/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Slave-Trade-Manillas-300x169.jpg)
The Douro [+1843] - The Slave Trade Manillas - Dive Log 606
Conspiracy surrounds the Douro's 1843 sinking. She is suspected of carrying slave trading Manillas, the UK slave trade abolished in 1807.
![The SS Latona [+1876] – Dover, Kent – Dive Log 560](https://scuba.to/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/What-We-Think-Is-A-Pipe-Cap-300x169.jpg)
The SS Latona [+1876] - Dover, Kent - Dive Log 560
Chris had shot the wreck perfect! Right on the stern and with a hazy 5 metres visibility, navigation back to the shot would be easily achieved.
![MV Aeolian Sky [+1979] – A Threesome Bimble – Dive Log 550](https://scuba.to/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Mark-Becks-and-Piers-300x169.jpg)
MV Aeolian Sky [+1979] - A Threesome Bimble - Dive Log 550
The ensemble bimbled around the shot and then off into the darkness, ever mindful that “darkness” could interpret as “inside of”.
![SS Pommerania [+1878] – A CCR Solo Dive – Dive Log 546](https://scuba.to/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/IMG_1420-300x169.jpeg)
SS Pommerania [+1878] - A CCR Solo Dive - Dive Log 546
So with a little nervous anticipation, I kitted up knowing that I could abort at anytime. One thing was for sure, your mind becomes extremely focused.
![Uboat SM UB-55 [+1918] – Debbie Does Dover – Dive Log 540](https://scuba.to/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Scuba-Diving-Dover-300x169.jpg)
Uboat SM UB-55 [+1918] - Debbie Does Dover - Dive Log 540
Recalling those escape memoirs and gently rubbing those glass lights, mesmerised that they had been there for over 100 years.
Midlands Dive Chamber Decompression Dry Dive - Dive Log 521
Where you will get a euphoric high like being drunk, but with no hangover, speak like Orville and take a maths lesson where 3+3 will equal 2.
Dive Logs Abroad
![A Lesson Learned – SS Rosalie Moller [+1941] Dive Log 515](https://scuba.to/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/SS-Rosalie-Moller-Coal-300x169.jpg)
A Lesson Learned - SS Rosalie Moller [+1941] Dive Log 515
On many divers’ Red Sea Bucket Lists, the Rosalie Moller lays upright, around 51 metres to the sandy sea bed with Welsh coal in the holds.
![Deep, Sharks and Visibility – SS Aïda [+1957] – Dive Log 511](https://scuba.to/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/The-Aida--300x169.jpg)
Deep, Sharks and Visibility - SS Aïda [+1957] - Dive Log 511
We were straight down to the stern, to slowly ascend through the wreck. Those who have dived the Ronda at Mull, this is a similar profile.
![MV Dandfjord [+1948] and a Little Treasure- Dive Log 481](https://scuba.to/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Danish-CLOC-Whisky-300x169.jpg)
MV Dandfjord [+1948] and a Little Treasure- Dive Log 481
During a month holiday on the island of Sal, Cabo Verde, I was able to make to dives on the relatively undived MV Danfjord as lost in 1948.
![The San Francisco Maru [+1944] – Dive Log 290](https://scuba.to/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_0979-300x169.jpg)
The San Francisco Maru [+1944] - Dive Log 290
This San Francisco Maru was my deepest dive to date at 50m. Obviously narked, I felt I had to take a photo of the spherical mines on deck.
![Heian Maru [+1944] – Chuuk Lagoon – Dive Log 272](https://scuba.to/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG_4620-300x169.jpg)
Heian Maru [+1944] - Chuuk Lagoon - Dive Log 272
The Heian Maru is the largest diveable wreck in Chuuk Lagoon, lost during Operation Hailstone being bombed and torpedoed by US Naval aircraft.
USAT Liberty Shipwreck, Tulamben, Bali - Dive Log 179
Just some 30 metres from the shore was the stern of the wreck, which slid into the waters back in March 1963 subsequent to the eruption of volcano Gunung Agung.
Tanjung Jepun and Blue Lagoon, Padangbai, Bali - Dive Log 181
The two sites we dived were Tanjung Jepun and Blue Lagoon at Padang Bai. Both…
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![HMS Flirt [1897-1916] and the Battle of the Dover Strait](https://scuba.to/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/HMS-Flirt-300x169.jpg)
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![The MV Sørvard renamed MV Danfjord [+1948]](https://scuba.to/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/MV-Danfjord-Anchor-300x169.jpg)
The MV Sørvard renamed MV Danfjord [+1948]
Once it was established that the bar named Damfjord at the Hotel Odjo d´água was misspelled, the book opened to a WWII history of events.
The HMHS Kyarra Wreck History and Sinking
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U-Boat SM UB-57 - Oberleutnant zur See Johannes Lohs
Born 24th June 1889 in Seiffen, Germany, Johannes Lohs was a highly decorated German U-boat commander in the Kaiserliche Marine during WWI.
In Classical Latin, the verb ūrīnārī meant “to dive into water”, ūrīnātor was “a diver” and ūrīnantēs “those who dive”. Latin ūrīnātor (“diver”), from ūrīnārī + -tor (suffix forming a (masculine) agent noun). Ūrīnārī is the present active infinitive of ūrīnor (“to plunge under water, dive”). Welcome Ūrīnātors, one and all!