The Manacles rocks, Cornwall. Above and Below.

The Manacles, an area of reef approximately one square mile, lying to the southern approach to Falmouth, has been responsible for over 100 shipwrecks with over 1000 lives lost.
There is no comparable reef on the entire south coast of Britain that has caused such a loss of shipping.
Even larger ships which should have been many miles offshore seem to have become entangled with this quite lethal mass of rock, and the whole reef is still littered in ships remains of all ages.

The area is now marked by a bell bouy marking the outer most safe passage.

Shot during summer 2018, in this video we go down on some of the rarest, calmest days of the summer to dive around the rocks and then to view them from the air.