This dive is another one of those MUST do dives. It is deep but worth every minute of deco! This is the biggest advantage of diving on breathers. we did 50 minutes on the bottom and had a little over 2 hours runtime! As you can see the ship is broken in two. I spent all my dive on the stern section of the ship.

The wreck is broken in two main parts. As you can see in the diagram below the Stern section is bolt upright and the bow section is turned turtle. Both parts are very interesting. The ship was blown in half by a torpedo dropped by a plane while trying to leave the lagoon.

The bow section is really intersting, Access to the quarters shows large amounts of human remains. Very humbling.

SHIP STATS

Tonnage: 1523 ton
Length: 100m
Width: 10m
Depth: 3.5m
Engine: 2 shaft parsons geared turbines 38 500 SHP
Speed: 37 knts
Launching: 1924
Builder: Sasebo

DEPTH OF SHIP
top of ship: 58 m.
Bottom: 64 m.

Pictures of the wreck.

Bow section of the Oite with schooling Jacks

Bow section of the Oite

Stern section of the oite

Whole stern section viewed from the props end. see the 4" gun?

Stark reminder that we are all diving on ships at war.

Human remains are everywhere on this warship. Here shown are more human remains

Main Battery gun of the Oite

yes your eyes arent deceiving you it is a bell!! This is "the interesting artifact" in Baileys book! It is in

plain sight onthe port side of the vessel just below the main battery gun "X" position on the

schematic!!!?

AA Guns. These ones were on the port side and had fallen down. There is another set

Shitter on deck!!!

These are the other AA guns on the starboard side of the ship

Rob checking out a vice on the starboard deck

Depth Charge Launcher on deck aft of the bridge towards the stern

Another angle of the depth charge launcher (note AA guns in the distance)

Well if you have a depth charge launcher you need depth charges!

The props are the most impressive on destroysers. 36 knotts they go so they are big and angular

Props on the sand at 64m

OK OK we cant contain ourselves! It WAS an awesome dive!