Looking back now, the 2017 Bigscapacleanup week seems an eon away but the picture sums up the week in many ways. Here is a small crab who will go back in the water to grow some more. Likewise, the week saw the teams consolidate their good work and grow the range of skills that divers […]
Author: Bob Anderson
New site coming soon…
Santa’s elves are slightly ahead of schedule so we have borrowed them for a week or two to help with a spring clean on the BSCup website: keep your mincers peeled for updates coming down the chimney soon….
New maps…
Did I mention new maps? All the German Fleet have now been drawn and are online here so dig in and get reporting of all the rubbish that you find on the wrecks. A big thank you too to our friends at Environment Historic Scotland who have helped fund this latest round of maps. A […]
Movings sideways, welcome BSAC..
Somewhere along the way, I think we kinda became custodians of these wrecks. They form an important part of our cultural heritage and, as divers, we are privileged to dive and enjoy them. The more they are explored, the more they reveal about a life lived back in time and so in turn create a […]
Growing in capacity..
As the project gathers legs, so more modular components can be identified and brought into focus by small teams all bringing thought to specific areas but handing their knowledge to the next team. So the Ghostfishing guys benefited from reporting on the maps which was composed of a software back end layered over technical level […]
New maps..
At the end of the last BigScapaCleanUp week there were a couple of themes that bubbled to the surface. Wrecks that were cleaned the previous year were revisited and generally found to have remained clean. Certainly, it didn’t take more than a single dive for the team to sweep any debris that had accumulated since […]
Moving swiftly on..
Well the eager beavers have been hard at work chipping away at the coalface over the winter and created a fresh new swathe of thingsnstuff to keep the website moving forward. Plans are well under way to take the Ghostfishing week forward and tackle the battleships in a new round of cleaning. The battleships are […]
Cöln map
On the back of the last week collecting rubbish in the Flow, we have earmarked a programme to map the rest of the wrecks to gather data for a clear up week in 2017. The Coln is the first of the sites to get a brand new sparkly map, now live and waiting: Get reporting […]
Spring clean: all green!
Green is the new colour! We have given the site a bit of a spring clean and a new colour palette: let us know your thoughts..
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