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WAR BARON (PROBABLY)

The War Baron (probably) is one of our favourite deep wrecks in the UK. At 46 metres, it’s a serious dive, definitely for technical divers or those with solid experience in lower visibility and colder water. You drop onto a massive steamship, 125 metres long, a real beast from 1917, sunk by a mine in 1918. We love exploring the huge triple expansion engines and boilers, still largely intact and imposing. The scale of the ship means you’ll need multiple dives to properly take it all in. Visibility can swing wildly here, from a murky few metres to a surprising 15, so pick your day carefully, ideally on a neap tide for less current. Even on darker days, the wreck comes alive with life. We’ve seen conger eels that look like tree trunks lurking in the holds, massive edible crabs scuttling over the plating, and a constant cloud of pout and bib around the superstructure. It’s a proper historical dive, a somber reminder of wartime, but now a thriving artificial reef.