Chris Webb

Chris Webb
Phone ‭07821 827946‬
Email skipper@mutinydiving.com

Chris is the owner-operator of Mutiny Diving and the sort of seasoned marine hand who makes running dive trips in the Strait of Dover look far easier than it has any right to. With years of practical experience on the water, he combines boat handling, dive planning, wreck knowledge and calm decision-making in a way that reassures divers, even when the visibility is questionable and the tide is behaving like it has a personal grudge.

He knows these waters properly. Not in a brochure-writing sense, but in the lived-in, hard-earned way that comes from countless hours spent getting people safely out to sea, onto wrecks, and back again with a good story to tell. He has a sharp eye for conditions, a steady hand on the helm, and an unnerving ability to locate old bits of metal on the seabed as though they’ve been sending him invitations.

As the man behind Mutiny Diving, Chris wears several hats at once: skipper, business owner, wreck guide, organiser, problem-solver and general bringer of order to the glorious chaos of dive logistics. He leads with the kind of calm authority usually found in people who consider the Dover Strait a pleasant place for a morning out. His mix of local knowledge, practical seamanship and quiet confidence is a big part of what keeps divers coming back.

He’s also a firm believer that the best dives come with a bit of grit, a bit of tide, and a healthy respect for the sea. Unless he’s on the water, you’ll likely find him fettling something in the bilges, eyeing the forecast, or necking a cool Hawkstone’s cider at Cullin’s Yard while wondering how he lost today’s shot line.

Events from this organiser

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  • HMS Brazen - H80

    HMS Brazen – H80 (1940)

    Dover Deep Wreck Week
    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    Her end came on 20 July 1940, when she was attacked by German aircraft off Dover while engaged on Channel convoy duties. Badly damaged in the air raid, HMS Brazen later sank in the English Channel, where her wreck now lies in about 30 metres of water at roughly 51°01'N, 1°17'E. Contemporary naval records note that one member of her ship’s company was killed. For divers, Brazen is a classic south-east coast war wreck: a sleek destroyer, a Battle of Britain era loss, and a site where the story of Britain’s desperate Channel defence still clings to the metal.

  • HMS Flirt

    HMS Flirt (1916)

    Dover Deep Wreck Week
    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    HMS Flirt went to help stricken drifters during the 1916 Battle of Dover Strait, then German torpedo boats caught her at point-blank range. This wreck dive follows a Royal Navy destroyer lost in minutes, with sixty dead, nine survivors and one of the Dover Patrol's sharpest night-fighting stories.

  • SS Filleight (1945)

    SS Filleigh (1945)

    Dover Deep Wreck Week
    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    At 05:55 on 18 April 1945, only weeks before the end of the war in Europe, Filleigh was torpedoed by U-245, commanded by Oberleutnant zur See Friedrich Schumann-Hindenberg, while in convoy off the North Foreland / Dover Strait area. The same attack also sank the Norwegian ship Karmt. Filleigh went down with the loss of five crewmen, while her master, 37 crew, 10 DEMS gunners and a Belgian pilot were rescued and landed at Dover. For divers, this is a powerful late-war wreck: a large cargo steamer, military cargo, a U-boat attack in the final days of the Battle of the Atlantic, and a site lying in about 50 metres. Not a casual potter, then. More a proper Channel wreck with teeth.

  • SS Unity

    SS Unity (1918)

    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    SS Unity was carrying ordnance to Calais when UB-57 found her off Folkestone in May 1918. This wreck dive follows a Goole steamer, a deadly Channel crossing, twelve lost crew and a seabed that still holds the small personal traces of a wartime voyage cut short.

  • Unidentified Local Wreck

    Unidentified Wreck – Local

    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    No name, no neat story, no tidy archive entry: this unidentified local wreck dive is a proper Kent coast mystery. Join us as we drop onto an unnamed seabed mark and look for the clues that could reveal whether it is a forgotten coaster, wartime casualty, barge, sailing vessel or something stranger still.

  • Unidentified Local Wreck

    Unidentified Wreck – Local

    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    No name, no neat story, no tidy archive entry: this unidentified local wreck dive is a proper Kent coast mystery. Join us as we drop onto an unnamed seabed mark and look for the clues that could reveal whether it is a forgotten coaster, wartime casualty, barge, sailing vessel or something stranger still.

  • Unidentified Local Wreck

    Unidentified Wreck – Local

    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    No name, no neat story, no tidy archive entry: this unidentified local wreck dive is a proper Kent coast mystery. Join us as we drop onto an unnamed seabed mark and look for the clues that could reveal whether it is a forgotten coaster, wartime casualty, barge, sailing vessel or something stranger still.

  • Unidentified Local Wreck

    Unidentified Wreck – Local

    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    No name, no neat story, no tidy archive entry: this unidentified local wreck dive is a proper Kent coast mystery. Join us as we drop onto an unnamed seabed mark and look for the clues that could reveal whether it is a forgotten coaster, wartime casualty, barge, sailing vessel or something stranger still.

  • Unidentified Local Wreck

    Unidentified Wreck – Local

    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    No name, no neat story, no tidy archive entry: this unidentified local wreck dive is a proper Kent coast mystery. Join us as we drop onto an unnamed seabed mark and look for the clues that could reveal whether it is a forgotten coaster, wartime casualty, barge, sailing vessel or something stranger still.

  • Unidentified Local Wreck

    Unidentified Wreck – Local

    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    No name, no neat story, no tidy archive entry: this unidentified local wreck dive is a proper Kent coast mystery. Join us as we drop onto an unnamed seabed mark and look for the clues that could reveal whether it is a forgotten coaster, wartime casualty, barge, sailing vessel or something stranger still.

  • Unidentified Local Wreck

    Unidentified Wreck – Local

    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    No name, no neat story, no tidy archive entry: this unidentified local wreck dive is a proper Kent coast mystery. Join us as we drop onto an unnamed seabed mark and look for the clues that could reveal whether it is a forgotten coaster, wartime casualty, barge, sailing vessel or something stranger still.

  • Unidentified Local Wreck

    Unidentified Wreck – Local

    Dover Marina Esplanade, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom

    No name, no neat story, no tidy archive entry: this unidentified local wreck dive is a proper Kent coast mystery. Join us as we drop onto an unnamed seabed mark and look for the clues that could reveal whether it is a forgotten coaster, wartime casualty, barge, sailing vessel or something stranger still.

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