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JMB Joined: 11/04/2010 Location: Lochaber View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Rubislaw Granite Mine
Posted: 01/06/2011 12:53:21 Reply | Quote BBC News has this report 31 May 2011 Last updated at 14:49 Rubislaw Quarry in Aberdeen could become diving centre The owners of one of Europe's largest man-made holes are considering opening it as Scotland's first commercial deep-water inland diving centre. ........... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-13597186 -- |
grahami Joined: 29/01/2007 Location: Telford, Shropshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Rubislaw Granite Mine
Posted: 01/06/2011 13:05:00 Reply | Quote Hope they keep a de-compression chamber handy - they could do with one at Dorothea! Grahami -- The map is the territory - especially in chain scale. IP: 212.219.117.106 |
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JMB Joined: 11/04/2010 Location: Lochaber View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Rubislaw Granite Mine
Posted: 01/06/2011 13:07:45 Reply | Quote Would thought no shortage of those in Aberdeen. BBC1's Crimewatch special last night showed the police North West Underwater Search Team working in Dorothea. They were checking for stolen cars that had been dumped there, using a remote camera. -- |
Teigl Joined: 31/05/2010 Location: Vale of Ffestiniog View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Rubislaw Granite Mine
Posted: 01/06/2011 21:38:26 Reply | Quote Yes, there's a hyperbaric unit on Ashgrove road, about a mile away. I'm surprised at the depth of the quarry quoted in the report, since when they demolished half the town centre in the 80's to build the two dismal shopping malls, they tipped it all back in the hole! 
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