Mark Milburn
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Volunteer divers and fisherman team up to release trapped marine life off Cornish coast
This group of divers led by Mark Milburn from Atlantic Scuba certainly got more than they bargained for this week! What started as a trip...
Mark Milburn’s Cornish Wreck Ramblings, Part 6: Flotsam, Jetsam and as far as you could see a barrel
Wrecks happen, they always have, especially along an exposed coastline like the one around Cornwall. Many have heard the stories about the wreckers; were there...
Mark Milburn’s Cornish Wreck Ramblings, Part 5: The Trouble with Trawlers
During both the Great War and World War two, fishing trawlers, drifters and whalers were used as mine sweepers or ancillary vessels. During both wars,...
Mark Milburn’s Cornish Wreck Ramblings, Part 4: HMS Anson, a tragedy & saver of lives
When the HMS Anson hit Loe Bar on Christmas eve in 1807, the conditions and the location made it a certain tragedy. Loe Bar is...
Mark Milburn’s Cornish Wreck Ramblings, Part 3: Falmouth’s Ghosts of the Great War
At the end of the Great War, the Kaiser’s high seas fleet was interned at Scapa Flow, Orkney. Due to some miscommunication or maybe a...
Mark Milburn’s Cornish Wreck Ramblings, Part 2: Shifting Sands
I mentioned the subject of wrecks appearing and disappearing again in Part 1 of Cornish Wreck Ramblings (which you can read here). It can be quite...
Mark Milburn’s Cornish Wreck Ramblings, Part 1: Accuracy, inaccuracy and alternative co-ordinates
We are in a marvellous age of technology, where we can pinpoint a needle in a haystack within inches. In the days before GPS and...
Introducing Mark Milburn’s Cornish Wreck Ramblings
In a new ongoing series on Scubaverse.com, Mark Milburn of Atlantic Scuba in Falmouth investigates the many shipwrecks that can be found around the UK’s...
Scubafest Cornwall Review
During the week before Scubafest, everyone was watching the wind forecast. It wasn’t looking good for any diving around the resort at Pentewan, near Mevagissey...
Similan Islands Liveaboard Trip Report: Epilogue
Read the prologue to this trip report here. Read Day 1 here. Read Day 2 here. Read Day 3 here. Read Day 4 here. Read Day 5 here....
