00:00It's not widely known, but shipwrecks always have an owner.
00:04In the UK it's possible for private individuals to buy and sell them,
00:08and I've always fancied owning one.
00:11So when I saw this advert on Facebook Marketplace, I knew that this was my opportunity.
00:16Built in 1896, the Almond branch was torpedoed on the 26th of November 1917
00:23by the very successful German submarine UB-57.
00:27Like most merchant casualties of the two world wars,
00:31the insurance claim was processed by the British government, who then went on to own the wreck.
00:36In an attempt to recoup their losses, they sold it in 1978.
00:4146 years later, the owner decided they didn't want it anymore, so put it up for sale on Facebook.
00:48£300 later, and a few messages, I became the proud owner of a 3,000 tonne shipwreck,
00:55located in 58 metres of water off the Cornish coast.
01:00Having bought it, there was only one thing to do, and that was to go and dive it.
01:05Here I am today, I'm going to dive my wreck.
01:08Yeah, yeah.
01:29Yeah.
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