You have reached Chris Michael's pages about diving, shipwrecks,
marine research, books and boating [click underlined text to learn more]:
• For information on diving: Liverpool
Bay and Anecdotes; History of dive
tables;
Salvage diving - history.
Diving from
MARLIN;
recent trips;
possible next MARLIN trip.
• For information on detecting shipwrecks:
Interpreting magnetometer data to deduce
properties of shipwrecks;
Use your mobile phone to detect a
shipwreck;
Sonar surveying and Crowd-sourced Charting.
• For information on books about shipwrecks:
overview
or
to ORDER,
Wrecks
of Liverpool Bay (1994) also
Updated information
Wrecks
of Liverpool Bay Volume II (2008) also
Updated information;
Additional wrecks.
Liverpool Hurricane of 1839 (2014) also
Updated information
Lelia (2004)
(American Civil War blockade runner lost on maiden voyage in Liverpool Bay)
• Wreck Summaries (web - free): Dee Estuary (2022);
Early SS (2022);
Emigrant ships(2022);
Liverpool Sailing Packets(2022);
Lots more wrecks(2022).
• Search these pages for shipwrecks [just skip the adverts in the results]:
• Information on navigation:
Cruising the Dee estuary;
Cruising the Mersey;
Cruising the Irish Sea;
MARLIN cruises in the Irish Sea area;
Wildlife
Boating Rants:
Not for navigation;
Fishing floats;
Firing Ranges;
the Green Bits.
• Summaries of experience with boat equipment:
Fuel tank level;
Exhaust Alarm;
Solar Panels;
Electric cooking;
Electric Capstan;
Boat electrics;
Boat networks;
Sonar kit;
Hot water on tap;
Seagull Defence
• Some marine history:
The earliest detailed charts of Welsh ports and
anchorages by Lewis Morris in 1748,
Post Office Steam Packets,
Early Mersey Steam Ferries and Tugs,
Early Dee Steamers,
Innovative vessels.
Liverpool involvement in the American Civil War:
Building BlockadeRunners and
CSS Florida.
• Information on Cubbin's Green
(part of Wirral Country Park close to sea-shore South of West Kirby) (or
here).