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We swam down the inside of the hull passing from one hold to the next through what would once have been a bulkhead - but which was now largely corroded away. We arrived abruptly at the furthermost end of the next hold. This was a solid wall of steel - and we couldn’t go any further. We kicked our fins and moved up out of the holds and onto the deck. Here I found that other than a small deck winch and a hatch down into some storage spaces, there was very little deck space before the sides of the vessel swept round to a very blunt bow. With no prop at the other end of the hull, and no superstructure at all, it was now clear that this was a small barge we had been diving, some 95 feet long with a beam of approximately 25 feet. Not the greatest of shipwrecks - but still exciting, and another wreck for my logbook.

Back in our boats we chatted about what we had found and promptly christened the unknown barge, the Power Cable barge because of the large armoured power cable that lay right over and across the wreck amidships. To this day this wreck is still known simply as the Power Cable Barge.