Wreck at the Mumbles 2 September 2023

3D Model

This 3D model was generated from 148 images taken by an Olympus TG-6 camera utilising Agisoft Metashape software at medium resolution. The site is another small sailing craft, believed to be one of the many Swansea Bay oyster skiffs that were prevalent in the bay in the mid-to-late 19th century. This was when the oster fishery at the Mumbles was at its height with around 200 small vernacular-built sailing vessels being used to dredge for oysters in Swansea Bay. The length of these craft was around 11-12m, which corresponds with the length of the keel observed at the site. The craft is laid over in its port side, and with framing and planking likley to survive on that side, buried in the sediment. Over the 3-year monitoring period, the sediment cover was observed to vary only slightly, but with larger changes seen in the cover of bladderwrack and other seaweeds, corresponding with peak growing seasons.