While deep sea diving is usually associated with clear open waters, tropical fish and sea creatures, there's something rather unusual drawing divers to a Lancashire beauty spot. For at the Capernwray Dive Centre near Lancaster there's a veritable underwater graveyard of objects to explore - including a sunken plane wreck.
The facility, which is a scuba diving site and training centre as well as swimming spot popular for days out, is located at a former limestone quarry and is completely inland. And in a further twist it is the final resting place of several huge objects and unusual objects that you would probably not expect to spot in the sea.
Around 25-metres deep, the flooded quarry is home to various boats including a minesweeper and a Gypsy Moth yacht, helicopters, a devil statue, a cannon and a gnome garden. There even used to be an oil rig, although this has recently been removed.
