The team at popular inland dive site Wraysbury Dive Centre have sunk a new attraction for divers and snorkellers – a 737 fuselage.
They first saw G-CELA a 737-300 – well, the front half – at Kemble Airport. The back half apparently was destroyed in a Fast and Furious movie. Her first flight was in 1986 for an Australian Airline and she went on to belong to Jet 2 and eventually was converted into a cargo plane. Her last flight was to Kemble in June 2017.
G-CELA arrived at Wraysbury last year and the team had been preparing her for sinking when the pandemic halted their plans slightly and they finally got to put her in on 26th August. They decided to place G-CELA in the shallower part of the lake so that all divers and snorkellers can enjoy the attraction.
The team added: “We need to thank Mark Gregory at Air Salvage International, Lee Lifting for their huge crane and expertise, SSI for their sponsorship and our wonderful dive family who worked very hard to put it in place safely.”
If you would like to see her in her original state you can see an image here.
For more information about Wraysbury Dive Cente please visit their website by clicking here.
Nick and Caroline Robertson-BrownNick and Caroline (Frogfish Photography) are a married couple of conservation driven underwater photo-journalists and authors. Both have honours degrees from Manchester University, in Environmental Biology and Biology respectively, with Nick being a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, a former high school science teacher with a DipEd in Teaching Studies. Caroline has an MSc in Animal Behaviour specializing in Caribbean Ecology.
They are multiple award-winning photographers and along with 4 published books, feature regularly in the diving, wildlife and international press They are the Underwater Photography and Deputy Editors at Scubaverse and Dive Travel Adventures. Winners of the Caribbean Tourism Organization Photo-journalist of the Year for a feature on Shark Diving in The Bahamas, and they have been placed in every year they have entered.
Nick and Caroline regularly use their free time to visit schools, both in the UK and on their travels, to discuss the important issues of marine conservation, sharks and plastic pollution. They are ambassadors for Sharks4Kids and founders of SeaStraw. They are Dive Ambassadors for The Islands of The Bahamas and are supported by Mares, Paralenz, Nauticam and Olympus.
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