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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.
Eccleston Quarry. Coordinates: 53.6291°N 2.7291°W. 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 ...
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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.
On a year round basis, the maximum depth of the quarry is about 19.4 to 19.6 metres. The deepest it gets is in winter, when I have recorded 20.6 metres. The shallowest after a long summer dry spell is about 19.2.
Local anglers continued to fish at the quarry unaware of the drama unfolding 60 feet below. The water has been used in the past for the illegal dumping of cars, and both divers say they saw cars deep below the surface. A dumped mini estate was found near the body. But police are understood to have ruled out any link between that car and the body.
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