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Tag Archives: Wrecks
Truk Lagoon. Second dive – Betty Bomber
The Mitsubishi G4M Bomber, was codenamed “Betty” by the Americans. It was a land-based bomber built with speed and long-range in mind. Consequently weight was critical, and it was stripped of any equipment not deemed essential. One example was that … Continue reading
Truk Lagoon – First dive – Yamagiri Maru
We were staying on the S.S. Thorfinn, and diving is done from tenders. They have two large 30ft RIBs with canopies that can take 8 divers comfortably and we had 11 on it for one dive later in the week. … Continue reading
Truk Lagoon 2010
Over Easter I was fortunate enough to go wreck diving in Truk Lagoon. The trip had been planned for a while, and 22 of us chartered the Thorfinn liveaboard. Getting there from Hong Kong took the best part of a … Continue reading
WW I passenger ship found off NZ
On 26 June 1918 the Wimmera, an Australian passenger ship, hit a German mine north of New Zealand. She sank with the loss of 26 lives out of 151 passengers and crew. Now Mike Hodson, an Auckland electronics expert, and … Continue reading
The HMS Poseidon Story
Steven Schwankert is a diver and journalist based in Beijing. He has been along to SCDC’s Thursday night club night on a number of occasions, and gave a hugely entertaining talk on diving Lake Khovsgol in Mongolia. Around that time … Continue reading
Remains Found on 18th Century Warship
HMS Victory was Nelson’s flagship at Trafalgar, but it was the 6th ship of that name to serve with the Royal Navy. Its predecessor was also a 100 gun ship of the line and was launched in 1737. However it … Continue reading
Video of WWII sunken hospital ship
The BBC website has a video of the wreck of the Centaur, an Australian World War 2 hospital ship. It sank in May 1943 with the loss of 268 lives after being torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. You can see … Continue reading
WWII Hospital ship found off Queensland
The AHS Centaur, a hospital ship that was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in May 1943 has been found near Brisbane in 2059m of water. There were 332 people on board when it was hit and only 64 survived. The … Continue reading
Previously unseen Mary Rose relics shown
Some of the relics from Henry VIII’s warship, the Mary Rose, are being shown for the first time. The warship sank in 1545 in the Solent and was raised in 1982. It is now in a drydock in Portsmouth’s historic … Continue reading
WWII ship sunk as artificial reef off Florida Keys
The USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg was originally named the USS General Harry Taylor. It saw service ferrying American troops to the Pacific in 1944. After the war it brought troops and holocaust survivors out of Europe. In the 1960′s … Continue reading
Christmas Island body from HMAS Sydney
The ongoing inquiry into the 1941 sinking of HMAS Sydney has concluded that a body which was washed up on Christmas Island in February 1942 came from the ship. It had drifted in a life raft called a Carley float … Continue reading
HMAS Sydney crew not shot in life raft
Evidence from an inquiry into the sinking of HMAS Sydney in November 1941 contradicts a theory that crewmen were machine gunned in their life raft by men the German ship Kormoran. All 645 men from the Sydney were lost. The … Continue reading