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Apr 8, 1995 · They dived for 43 mins in a three to a depth of 9.5 meters and vis was a max of 3ft!! Walking on water. These two were taken in the 1980's. The Handless Corpse. October 15, 1979. Eccleston Delph, a flooded quarry in the heart of Lancashire, was never meant to reveal it's gruesome secret. But the body of Martin Johnstone never hit the bottom.
Contents. Eccleston Quarry. Eccleston Quarry is a mile south of Eccleston, Lancashire. It is also called Eccleston Delph and Eccy Delph (pronounced "ekky"). It is an old stone quarry that flooded. It is a popular site for scuba diving. Visibility is generally very poor and ropes have been strung between each underwater 'feature' to aid ...
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At Ecclestone Quarry, the police diver who recovered Johnstone's body told me that if Smith and Maher had been one metre further to the left when they dumped the body from a cliff top, it would probably have lain untouched for another 20 years. The body landed on a ledge at a depth of about six metres.
May 15, 2020 · Eccleston Delph. Eccy Delph is a quarry a mile south of Eccleston, Lancashire. Objects have been submerged for dive training such as speedboats, a Jet Provost, armoured personnel carriers, a light tank, containers, a concrete tube, and a gnome garden, and a playground. As well as these there are training platforms at various depths from 3 to 9 ...
Mar 19, 2020 · In the mid-1990s, a geologist named Mike Meehan reopened a non-flooded portion of the Portland quarry, slicing chunks of brownstone off a wall about six metres high (20 feet) high and almost 200m long (650 feet). Sadly, The New York Times reports that after nearly 20 years, Meehan has mined the last of the remaining accessible brownstone.
Frederick Marsh ran the quarry from 1930 until his death in 1934, when his wife Freda took over. Freda Marsh ran the quarry from 1934 to 1940/41. Stone quarried at the time was used to build the Tarleton by-pass, between Banks and Tarleton. View of the quarry in the 1930's. Quarry worker 1930's. The Delph 1930's. The Delph 1930's
Conditions. Dive centers (2) Diver reviews (2) Map (divesite + divecenters) Depth avg. 14m. Air / Surface temp. 1 - 27 ℃. Bottom / Water temp. 2 - 17 ℃. nightdive. Fishes, Ray.
