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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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For well over a century, New York’s Devonian siltstone, sandstone, and limestone bedrock has been quarried for building stone and aggregate. Many of the historic buildings on the Cornell University campus are built from Late Devonian rocks as well as buildings on PRI’s West Hill campus, which includes the Museum of the Earth.
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.
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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.
May 15, 2020 · Quarried stone exposes roots. 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 ...
