They dont call this the million dollar wreck for nothing. Nothing short of one of the most impressive sights around. When you drop down a narrow virtical opening and all you see to the left and right of you is mines! There are bombs everywhere you look.And the impressive looking ones - the arial ones with the massive veins. Piles of detonators on the deck. You name it. Vehicles, bowsers tanks on deck, impressive bow gun.

2009

Coming back to the wreck was a great feeling. Spending more time on the main structure of the ship. The viz was great as usual on this wreck.

SHIP STATS

Tonnage: 5.864 gross
Length: 117.34 m
Breadth: 15.5m
Draught: 14m
Engine: 1 x reciprocal steam, coal
Horsepower: 3,946 hp
Speed: knots; 14.27
Launching: 01 March 1919
Builder: Kawasaki Dockyard

DEPTH OF SHIP

top of ship: 45 m.
Deck: 50 m.
Bottom 63m

Pictures of the wreck.

2009 pictures

bow section of the san fran

famous tank shot on the port side

time exposure of the truks in hold 2

bow gun

Simon Mitchell swimming over the two tanks on the starboard side of the ship just forward of the midships

Captains bath on the port side in the main superstructure

One of the most impressive sights to date. Rows and rows of hemispherical limet mines

Engine room skylights. See how you just cant swim past those without going in!!!

Some sort of compressor in the engineroom.

More mines.

Bombs!!! Bombs and more Bombs

we got short ones, long ones, big ones, wide ones!!!!

Undercarrage of one of the tanker truks in hold 2

The Spaniard checking out the bow gun