About the mysterious sand bags

I'm very interested in these sand bags. One of the guys in the studio is a retired rigger so I asked him did he know what they are used for.  He thought they might be used as ballasts (as weights on a boat, so that weight is distributed more evenly and it floats). Or to block leaks. He wasn't totally sure, he has a friend who works in the Dockyard so I'm going to go down there on Monday morning to see if I can find out more.

The Dockyard

This is my favourite thing from the Dockyard.

The Sensations of Diving (from The Wonders of the Submarine, T.W. Corbin published 1918)

Portsmouth and a Submarine back way when.

The woman I'm staying with, Gill, shared this photograph with me.  It's her grandfather's crew on their submarine docked in Portsmouth. 

Someone told me this.

Due to shipping channels and the varying depths close to shore, you would never see one submerge until they are 30 miles out, and only then if its V Boat.

So I never would have seen the submarine submerge in Southampton.

Coral Propagation

Today I visited the aquarium in Portsmouth.  I found an amazing coral propagation tank.  I filmed it for a very long time - I'm going to make a piece with the footage.  It's as if it was filled with tiny alive sculptures.  The only shots I messed up were the pans, I have to back with a better tripod.  There will be audio to accompany this piece but I won't reveal my plans yet.

HMS Tireless

Went to Southampton on Tuesday to see a nuclear submarine.  I was stopped from getting into the dockyard where it actually was, so I had to watch it from the civilian pier.  I wanted to get footage of it submerging but it went out of sight before it submerged.  First time ever seeing a submarine!