{"id":268,"date":"2013-09-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bsac406.weebly.com\/dive-reports\/bung-ho-victoria"},"modified":"2013-09-20T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T09:00:00","slug":"bung-ho-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"Bung-ho Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">To start at the end for a change, one of the boat trailer springs died on Friday and after some hard work by Mike Anthony and Brian Lugg on Saturday the trailer is in bits and new springs are procured. On Tuesday night we\u2019ll be putting the thing back together in time for next Friday so we need a few bodies with overalls to help with the lifting. No excuses accepted (well possibly if you need a flight to get here but otherwise\u2026)<br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span>We actually had company on the Victoria Star this weekend. Not DSDC as we might have expected but Ali Fikree and a team of divers in a smart looking dive boat. Our ride out was very smooth but with a full moon, we were expecting strong currents. Not on the first dive as it turned out \u2013 we must have hit slack water and there was nothing to speak of.<br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span>Calm it may have been under water but things were not so relaxed on the boat. Waiting for the return of the first wave, Mike noticed the stern a bit lower in the water than it ought to have been. Yup \u2013 one of the bungs was missing and the boat was in danger of joining the Victoria Star on the bottom. They say the most efficient pump is a desperate man with a bucket and Mike was soon bailing away having first jumped into the water to plug the hole.<br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span>By the time we were on the surface the crisis had passed although we were bailing away for a good while. By the time of the second dive the current had got up as expected and it was a big effort just to get to the anchor line. Still \u2013 once on the wreck it was much calmer so we were able to further explore the workshop and engine room.<br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><br \/>Our Eid trip to Beirut is gathering pace. The main target is the \u201cSouffleur\u201d a Vichy French submarine sunk in 1941. A nearby wreck the \u201cAlice B\u201d is also well worth a visit.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To start at the end for a change, one of the boat trailer springs died on Friday and after some hard work by Mike Anthony and Brian Lugg on Saturday the trailer is in bits and new springs are procured. On Tuesday night we\u2019ll be putting the thing back together in time for next Friday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dive-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}