One of the many ocean liners in the lagoon. Its really different from any of the other ocean liners I have dived in the past in the sense that it was kitted out for war so none of this fancy stuff!! I have dived this ship about 6 times now and love every minute of diving this ship. Massive props, large stern gun. Really shallow and you can spend a month on this wreck alone. I did a lot of penetrating the superstructure this trip. Apart from spending about 50 minutes in the engineroom which was sheer bliss! There are so many levels to these places. Managed to get right into the superstructure to get into the galley, stores and bathrooms, toilets etc. The thing that really made me realise yet again was the evidence of the sheer heat coming through these ships when they get hit by all these bombs!

Check out the porthole I found in one of the forward sections of the superstructure. Now that 2inch thick glass was folded over as if it was thin melted plastic. Impressive! The ship is really sharp with growth making everything so sharp. You wont need exposure protection as the water is 30 degrees but you will need abrasion protection!!!

SHIP STATS

Tonnage: 9,627gross
Length: 140.5m
Breadth: 18.9m
Draught: 16m
Engine: 2 x Mitsubishi Sulzer Diesel
Horsepower: 7,515hp
Speed: knots; 17 knotts
Builder: Mitsubishi Zosensho, Nagasaki

DEPTH OF SHIP

top of ship: 10 m.
Bottom 34m

Pictures of the wreck.

There are a lot of images on this page, sorry for this but we spent a bit of time on her hense why i have so many shots!!

View of the engine room heading out

Deep into the engineroom where all the operations are controlled from

This is brilliant! Check out the clock - 6:45. And below that is the ships stabilizer gauge.

Obviously it shouldnt be showing this if the ship was afloat!! but seeing that its on its starboard side it seems to be working fine!!!

Skip coming into the engineroom

Electric boards and breakers below

Galley

Impressive props

Stern telegraph ( the other one is on the sand directly below this one!!!)

Stern gun pointing sternward

Rob and Skip looking in one of the holds

Abu - the boat driver having a dip! Note the hull with an internal explosion!

Skip in the main superstructure checking out bottles fused together by the heat

Speaking of heat.,, I came across this porthole.The glass was MELTED!!! thats what that flap is!!! Now thats heat!

Forward hold where there are lots of gun barrels - Rob taking a closer look!