Fort Bovisand, Plymouth, Feb 2008

Fort Bovisand has been done before and credit to Kernow but we thought we would give it a bash and see what we can pick out.

Info on the area.
http://www.divingheritage.com/bovisandkern.htm

Again, went with James PP, Scotty and Sarah (Scotty’s gf). Thanks for driving James PP. Sorry about the pigeon shit in your car

Extreme stitch :-/



We spent several hours here, poking about. Found access to several individual rooms/bunkers mostly filled with junk. Got to a dorm type room, which had a few good photo moments.







Lovely bog in there. Ajax needed.







Plenty of signs saying JSSADC monitor and secure this area. Also slight brown trouser moment when a small boat docked in the small port area. Lucky it was just divers doing a reccee.

Checked out several out houses but eventually found access to what seems like a living quarters for a Lt Commander. Fairly 70’s décor and very damp inside. Can’t have been a nice place to live.





Plenty of buckets dotted around catching water so this place must of leaked like a sieve in the rain. Joy.







Well done Scotty for persevering with the entry on the way back. It turned up trumps with us finding not only a canteen but also a reception area and BAR!

Unusual and interesting looking building. Nice one!

woah!were those beer taps really working?or was that some clever photo trickery?

groundunder said:

woah!were those beer taps really working?or was that some clever photo trickery?

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the taps was all switches off and unpluged.

with in 10mins i got the taps running and pouring 3 year old bitter again

the bar still has full kegs and gas.
if the lot was with in date it be worth close to 1k on drink alone.
damn it being out of date

Haha, yea it stank didnt it....blurrrgh!!!!

Shame Scotty cos you would of made and excellent barman.

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looks like that candle that hasent melted has been moved very recently.

Good work!

Nice post Scrub, that's one pint I wouldn't like to try, keep up the good work and maybe bump into you sometime soon, excellent explore...
Lycos.

yet another one i have been to as a kids, on my swimming days with mates, went in here twice but never no pics and no cam at 15 lol
wud love to yet again go here again

Hi Kelly, I realise that your new here, but this thread is over a year old, we only bump old threads if there are any important changes to the site.

Phil

yeh thats ok, just thought i would say about when i went
looks how i remember it.

I haven`t been to this place for years, I take it the diving school is no longer there ?
There are some interesting bunkers about a ten minute walk up the coast path going towards Jennycliff. If you go back towards the beach cafe/car park there are a row of cottages, the coast path is beside them. It takes you over a bridge which spans the forts defensive ditch then up an incline where there is a bunker on top of the hill.You can get into the ditch from there and into a couple of bunkers dug into the ditch wall. Further along the path is a series of steps which take you up to what I think was an RAF observation post with a couple of gun positions.
Back in the `90s I used to regularly take my grans dog out for a Saturday walk, starting at Pomphlett roundabout, up the old railway line, across Radford dip, through Jews wood, down to Bovi and follow the coast path to Turnchapel, then a nose round Hooe quarry and back through Radford. Its about eight miles but there were plenty of old ruins and oddities to see on the way.

I've been a couple of times (as a diver) Not sure if the dive club/school/shop etc is still there. The guys who ran it are doing time iirc for defrauding the nhs for false decompression chamber claims!

looks good guy, will have to get to this one soon!

Absolutely love this place, the best weekend's diving ever. Just a shame I didn't wander about more!!!

can we leave this site alone for a while guys? its in everybodies interest to do so!

Bad Lads

Brings back a lot of memories those photos... did my commercial diving course there in the early 80's before the place was run down by a group of shysters... good photos guys.... yes I used to drink in that bar too
Johno..