Death of a Princess

Peter Rowlands · Issue 82, Jan/Feb 2015 · pp. 78

Products mentioned: Panasonic GX7, Nauticam housing, 14-42 EZ lens, INON UWL100, GreenWater Magic filter

Parting Shots Do you have a shot which has a story within a story? If so e mail it with up to 500 words of text and yours could be the next Parting Shot. peter@uwpmag.com Death of a Princess In British waters we are blessed with an abundance of shipwrecks to dive but the condition of all of them is deteriorating as the years roll by. It is doubly sad when we lose a shipwreck almost overnight but that is what happened to the Viking Princess near Plymouth in the southwest of the UK during the winter storms of 2014. The Viking Princess was a decommissioned trawler which sank under tow and had been partly salvaged over the years but large sections of her still remained intact and provided a really useful backdrop for photography in about 17 metres (55 feet) where currents were rarely a problem. There were a couple of large congers which inhabited the engine room and a large shoal of fish usu…