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Company description Dive the Moray Firth aboard MV Top Cat.
Superb wrecks, scenic diving & excellent visibility. Have a look around the site at the diving, angling, wildlife tours and commercial services available. O2/Nitrox/Trimix all available.
MV Top Cat is a Blyth 33, a renowned stable work platform with a 16ft by 16ft working deck space aft. It has twin 170hp engines which offer a good cruising speed and excellent manoeuvrability. A compressor is carried forward of the wheelhouse allowing cylinders to be filled whilst travelling between dive sites and negating the need to return to shore. The galley provides ample tea, coffee, soup etc and Bill whips up (superb) curried potatoes for lunch. When this all gets too much there is a toilet!
The wheelhouse offers shelter, seating and a work area. Additional shelter from any inclement weather is provided by removable side panels. The raised fish hold/storage area in the foreground makes kitting up whilst seated straightforward, especially useful for technical divers.
Pictures of the boat can be seen on the `Top Cat` page. Some additional views of the working areas are below. MV Top Cat is available for the following applications:
•Survey & Trials
•Commercial Diving
•Guardboat Duties
•Stores Delivery/Light Cargo Work (1ton)
•Personnel Transfer
•Film Work
Some of Top Cat`s Attributes:
•Large stern door, easy entry/exit.
•Dive ladder.
•500kg hydraulic hauler.
•Easily adapted to take towing fixtures, probes etc.
•Moonpool on centreline with clamps for survey poles etc.
•Large cabin with table and survey shelf.
•Further shelter behind main cabin.
•Galley and toilet.
•Raised fish-hold for storage/kitting up.
•12v DC and 240v AC power supplies.
•1.7 kW invertor.
•NMEA0183 outputs available.
•Twin engines for excellent manoeuvrability.
•Fast deployment speed.
•Excellent slow speed handling.
The work bench provides a large amount of space for equipment. It can easily be raised out of the way when not required.
Other Equipment Available:
•Honda powered water pump
•Honda powered 2.2kW generator (115v/230v AC)
•HP air compressor (9.3cfm)
•Emergency medical oxygen
•Magnetometer
•Some diving equipment
Boat Electronics:
•Cetrek plotter
•Raytheon dual frequency sounder
•Raytheon 70 radar
•MLR GPS Valsat 2008 M2
•Furuno GPS Navigator SP-30
•Garmin GPS 128
Clients Contracted To Include:
•Clydeside Survey Ltd
•Fugro-UDI Ltd
•Rovtech Ltd
•Water Services Supply Group
Location description: Wrecks:
*Verona
The Verona was built in Glasgow in 1890. When she sank in 1917 she was working as an Auxillary Patrol Yacht operating in the Moray Firth. The Verona sank as a result of hitting a mine and now lies in 45 metres of water with a sandy sea bed and usually excellent visibilty.
The visibility on this wreck can be quite stunning. I have begun a descent and at 8m been amazed to see the whole wreck visible some 30m below me; quite an awesome sight. The wreck is now quite broken with the bow section having fallen away to the starboard side late in 2002. Around the bow the ornate toilet and wash basin can still be seen in remarkably good condition. Moving toward the stern, the ship`s wheel can be seen on the seabed just off the port side. The huge central bolier is often the first feature you see as the shot line is invariably attached to it. The propeller and rudder are still in place but can be quite difficult to see beneath the stern section.
*San Ti
The `San Ti` was a tanker belonging to the Eagle Oil and Shipping Company. She struck a mine on 4th May 1940 and broke in two. The two sections lie about 20 metres apart, the bow section in excellent condition, the stern slightly more broken up. Depths vary from 25 metres at the top of the cabins to 42 metres on the sea bed by the bow. Tides are rarely an issue on this wreck and the visibilty can be in excess of 15 metres.
The `San Ti` is a superb dive and invariably both the bow and stern sections are buoyed.
*Tantivy
This British submarine was scuttled by the Royal Navy in 1950 as a sonar target. She sits upright in 41 metres and is in excellent condition. The muddy sea bed ensures that it is dark but the visibility can be 10 metres. The Tantivy is owned by the Inverness BSAC.
*Valentine Tank
There can`t be many places around the country where you can dive on a tank. There are 5 Valentine tanks in the area, however, to date only two have been located. There is one near Burghead harbour in around 12 metres, and another north of Findhorn
Bay in around 20 metres. This picture shows one of the tanks with the rubber skirt raised. Note the propeller at the rear.

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Diving, angling, wildlife tours and commercial services available.

Contact information:
Phone: 01309 690421
Mobile: 07775 802963
Street Address:
Stratherrick, Fyrish Road, Findhorn, Moray
Scotland
United Kingdom
IV36 3YT
Spoken language(s): English
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) London, Edinbourg, Lisboa
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