Published: 9 June 2026
By: Adrienne Cadle
On a breezy day with a big spring tide, we set out to dive the Jaffa, a trawler torpedoed in WW1 lying on it’s side in 25 to 29 metres – definitely closer to 29 metres today. Trip out was nice as a swan and her 3 very young cygnets escorted us down the river and a dolphin passed us in the channel. Arrived on site in plenty of time and John did his usual magic with the shot. As it was a big spring the slack window was fairly small so Justin and Sarah jumped in a bit before followed by Julio and myself and that was the last time we could see anything further than 6 inches away, even with torches. Sarah and Justin took the sensible course and aborted fairly quicky, but Julio and I decided that we would have a look in limpet like fashion. Lots of fish which appeared to be equally flummoxed by the darkness as we could feel them bumping into us and quite a few crabs wandering around the edges of the wreck. Shame the visibility was so awful as would probably have been a very nice dive.
