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Afton.
The Afton is a well-broken wreck on clean white sand about 1.5 miles off Santon Head. It is known for its covering of plumose anemones, fish that are unafraid of divers, and very good visibility on good days. Divers descend a shot line to about 25 m and can only dive it at slack water.
Where · about 1.5 miles off Santon Head, south-east coast of the Isle of Man
Type · wreck
Depth · to 25 m
Logged · 6 dives, 13 Feb 2005 – 8 Apr 2006
$ man afton
01 / The dive
What's down there.
POINTS OF INTEREST
- Broken hull outlined against white sand
- Wreckage covered in plumose anemones
- Darker recesses in the wreck where conger eels shelter
MARINE LIFE
- Plumose anemones
- Catsharks
- Cuckoo wrasse
- Conger eels
- Sand eels
- Sponges
- Kelp
- Blue jellyfish in warmer months
DEPTH & CONDITIONS
About 25 m to the wreck on white sand, reached by shot line
Diveable only in a slack-water window of about one hour. Descend on a shot line and ascend on a delayed SMB, as the shot is not fixed. Diveable on air at about 25 m. Visibility can be exceptional. There are sharp, rusty edges, and jellyfish in summer.
$ grep afton diving/log | wc -l
03 / Logged here
6 dives.
From the reconstructed log — the dates follow the pattern I dived, so read them as representative rather than exact.
2005 3
2006 3