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26/01/2025
We’ve been lucky to have some bright sunshine skies between the storms here in North Wales. I absolutely love seeing and...
26/01/2025

We’ve been lucky to have some bright sunshine skies between the storms here in North Wales. I absolutely love seeing and capturing a few shots of sunballs at Vivian Quarry, the way the light rays cut through the water are stunning! Phoenix Watersports Ltd

08/01/2025

Blasting Techniques - We love learning how everything worked in the slate quarries! Todays post is based around the blasting techniques used!

Did you know it was gun powder that was used to blast the slate away from the quarry walls?

Getting the holes into the quarry walls was somewhat of a task in itself, before phenumatic drills were around a 2m long steel rod was repeatedly thrust into the holes until it was large enough to get the right amount of gun powder in there

You can still see the scars from the steel rod all around the quarries, Vivian included and under the water as well. To see the size of some of these scars, knowing they were done by hand is unbelievable and the strength it would of taken to repeat this every day!

Dynamite was also used but this was more to blast away rubble to get to the slate, as the dynamite itself would shatter the slate deeming it unusable.

An a alarm would sound throughout the day which would signal to the quarrymen to head to the blast shelters where they would have a smoke and a chat waiting for the explosions to go off and wait there until the explosions had finished.

Under the water at Vivian lies one of the blast shelters which is still in near perfect condition!

Credit to Phillips Underwater Photography / for this photo of the Blast House underwater at Vivian from the weekend!

Dive 100 in the Menai Strait! Low visibility conditions due to the previous stormy weather and tide timings made this tr...
29/12/2024

Dive 100 in the Menai Strait!

Low visibility conditions due to the previous stormy weather and tide timings made this tricky dive but after descending to the sea bed the visibility cleared up allowing us to spot lots of the following species of marine life:

- Common Starfish (Asterias rubens)
- Brown Crab (Cancer pagurus)
- Long-legged Spider Crab (Macropodia rostrata)
- Dihalia Anemone (Urticina felina)
- Soft Coral (Dead Man’s Fingers / Alcyonium digitatum)

Highlight of the day… NUDIBRANCH!

The white and yellow nudibranch is called Polycera quadrilineata and it is a species of Dorid Nudibranch. This particular one was between 5-10mm in length making it a fun challenge to photograph especially in the fast flowing waters of the Menai Strait!

A huge thank you to Phoenix Watersports Ltd for hosting the dives to spot all of the amazing marine life in North Wales.

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