Another classic wreck - I am sure you are beginning to see a trend here. ALL the wrecks are amazing!!!
Anyway the Nippo is no different. Slightly deeper with the decks at about 28m. The first thing that hits you is the tank on the port side of the ship forward of the superstructure to the left of hold 2.
Engineroom is again great fun. We enter from the port side at deck level. Into the superstructure, then first right into the engineroom. Then down into the bowls. Watch out though you can kick up the silt really easily and make taking pictures harder. Its quite tight in there. Heaps of stores, vice, oil cans, tools, etc not to mention the gauges. You can actually exit out of the torpedo hole on the port side of the ship if you swim down and aft.
Howitzer guns in hold 4. Great stuff. So much to see on this dive. |
|
SHIP STATS
Tonnage: 3,763 ts,gross
Length: 107.30 m
Breadth: 15.24 m
Depth: 8.38 m
Draught: 7.23 m
Engine: 1 x Turbine, coal
Horsepower: 3,600 hp maximum
Speed: 16.34 knots
Launching: 16 September 1936
DEPTH OF SHIP
top of ship: 24 m.
Bottom: 42 m.
|
