ScyllaCam - a special link-up from HMS Scylla to be set up in Plymouth

Ally · 01-20-2008, 06:02 PM

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A live visual feed to a sunken warship off south east Cornwall is going on display to the public in a city centre.

The anchor from the HMS Scylla will have monitors acting as an "underwater eye" to the wreck 23m (75ft) below the surface in Whitsand Bay.

The decommissioned Royal Navy frigate was sunk in a controlled explosion in March 2004 to become Europe's first artificial diving reef.

The anchor will become an attraction at Plymouth's railway station.

Thousands of divers have visited the artificial reef since 2004.

The ship was built in 1968, weighs 2,500 tonnes and is 113m (370ft) long.

She was bought by the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth in 2004 with £200,000 provided by the South West Regional Development Agency.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/7198965.stm

http://www.national-aquarium.co.uk/scylla/index.asp

**Kev Martin** · 01-21-2008, 02:29 PM

The Scylla is a very popular dive on the Plymouth circuit. Have dived it a couple of times myself. It is settling in well as an artificial reef with lots of interesting life inhabiting the wreck.

I served aboard her sister ship, HMS Sirius, for three years before she was decommissioned. There are no Leander Class frigates in service anymore - more's the pity. They were beautiful ships - real queen's of the sea (and I mean that in the royal sense

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