WRECK DIVING

~@Star@~

如果你认为值得的话 ，就去吧。。。

别被左言右语 ，左右你的去向。。。

ksukian

我很篇心的把這個挖出來， 但是， 全是英文， 我翻譯不了
我本身是來自納閩， 有一天我要回去潛這幾艘船。 真的就只有一家潛水公司做生意

ksukian

Tung Huang - the Cement Wreck 5o 13.360’ N  115o 04.680’ E

Sunk on 25 September 1980

This vessel carrying cement for construction in Brunei, hit the Samarang banks in Sabah. Whilst making a run for port, it sank close to Labuan. The vessel is a modern freighter with the superstructure aft. Nets are draped all over the vessel and in good visibility it appears almost like a Walt Disney creation. The easy penetrations to the engine room and superstructure are far riskier than they were10 years ago. The funnel fell over to port in the late 1990's, and the storms of August 2002 caused the hydraulic pumping of the sea to blow out a number of superstructure panels. In June 2003, the wreck was littered with dead fish, a sure sign that somebody had been fishing illegally.  

Marine life abounds, and resident, huge lionfish patrol the superstructure. The wreck lies in about 32 metres (HW) with a scour under the counter revealing the propeller (35 metres). The superstructure rises to 18 metres and the kingposts to 9 metres. The deck lies at about 22 metres.

Being the shallowest of the four Labuan wrecks, this is often a second dive. Be careful. Always leave at least an hour (preferably 90 minutes) between dives. At the very least, your computer will punish you for diving again less than 60 minutes after the last dive. The algorithm is designed that way. Also, particularly if you ran into deco. on the first dive, it's easy to slip in again on the second dive, and even on a relatively shallow dive such as this, the penalty racks up surprisingly fast.  

Also take care entering the engine room. It's often very murky deeper down, and a few pieces of falling rust dislodged by your exhaled air can turn into an instantaneous rust-out when visibility drops to zero. You won't be the first badly frightened and disorientated diver who regretted not having laid a line! Penetrating deep into the engines is not for the faint-hearted and certainly requires experience and technique.

2007: The superstructure appears to be very precarious. Huge gaps in the plating reveal bent and broken supporting members. Heavy machinery supported by very little hang over what used to be favourite penetrations.

Warnings apart, this can be a gorgeous wreck in good visibility, and even when the vis. is poor, there's plenty of life to observe.

ksukian

De Klerk - the Australian Wreck 5o 08.350’ N  115o 05.240’ E

Sank on 16 September 1944 with the loss of 339 lives.

Built in Britain around 1890, this was a typical Far East passenger cargo ship operated by the Dutch as the 'SS De Klerk'. She was taken over by the Dutch Indies Government at the end of January 1942 for conversion to a troop carrier for the Royal Dutch Navy at Tjilatjap. The conversion was cancelled due to shortage of personnel, and the Navy scuttled her at Tandjong Priok on 2nd March 1942. The Japanese Navy salvaged her on 28th November that year, renovated her, and she entered Japanese service as the 'Imaji Maru'. Fleeing Borneo, she was sunk by a bomb from the Australian air force on 16th September 1944(5?). Many female prisoners ('comfort ladies') were drowned as the Japanese took to the life boats. Several divers believe the wreck to be haunted. The vessel has lost most of its horizontal plating leaving just the riveted shell and the cross beams. The steam engine is a lovely example of its kind and the wreck is easy to penetrate. The vessel lies in 36 metres (HW), and in 1993 was canted over 45o onto her port side with the high side of the wreck rising to 22 metres at the shelter deck. For'ard there is a huge bomb hole in the starboard side. At the stern, the steel propeller and rudder were visible.

Over ten years later in 2006, the wreck appears much the same, however, the frame of the shelter deck has collapsed. The wreck appears to have sunk a bit into the seabed whilst rotating a little back towards the vertical. Certainly the wreck is no longer canted over so extremely, probably only about 20o off the horizontal, and the propeller is now buried in the sand. The highest point of the wreck is now some 26 metres (HW).

Diving this wreck is very atmospheric. The visibility is often less than 10 metres, and the skeletal remains of the ship and the tragic end to her life all combine with a touch of narcosis to produce a haunting, memorable dive.

The wreck retains the shell plating, however, al that remains of the horizontals are the frames. The bow hole in the starboard bow is impressive and a view from the hole looking upwards through the wreckage is shown below. The anchor chain runs from the starboard hawse pipe. The wreck is home to many lion fish, shrimp (Rhynchocinetes durbanensis), and barracuda of various species. The wreck's horizontal plating is all but rusted away, leaving the verticals and the machinery in place. In July 2006, we swam through the wreck end to end, passing the impressive steam engine (below) and boilers.

This wreck is reputed to be haunted. Two divers from BSADC saw a lady in flowing white passing through the ship. So shocked were they, that they vowed never to dive the wreck again.

On 29th January 2005, Dale Chenery, was diving through the stern decks when he was startled by a white ethereal object floating across the interior of the ship. It was a marbled ray! I didn't see the ray, but witnessed the swirling cloud of silt disturbed by its passage. So is the ghost of the wreck nothing more than a resident ray? Who knows?

ksukian

Mabini Padre - the Blue Water Wreck 5o 17.440’ N  114o 59.850’ E

sank on 13th November 1981 (Yes; it was friday 13th !)

This huge Filipino stern trawler sank on tow after a fire. Much further from the coast than the other wrecks (6 miles beyond the Cement wreck and 10 miles beyond the other two), it suffers little from the inshore murk and occasionally 40 metre visibility can be encountered that gives the wreck its name.  

The vessel lies on its port side in 35 metres with the starboard side rising to 24 metres. The side is a riot of soft corals (dendronephthya) except where some divers appear to have been clog dancing around the base of the 'permanent' shot line. The hull is easily penetrated aft of the bridge superstructure, however, as in all wrecks, the chance of a rust-out, particularly in any machine spaces is an ever present risk.

The swim through the stern trawl shute is fun and it allows the diver to pass round and under the stern to observe the single screw. In 2003, the screw was virtually obscured by marine growth.

There's a huge amount of life on all these wrecks. Scorpion fish (left) are common and there is a resident frog fish near the bridge. The school of barracuda that patrol in the blue water are big and, if you count them, number over 100 specimens.

m.choo80

谢谢分享~~

ksukian

USS Salute - the American Wreck 5o 08.664’ N  115o 04.726’ E

This wreck lies less than 100 metres from the Brunei border.

Sunk when hit Japanese mine on 8 June 1945 during WWII

The USS Salute was a US Navy Minesweeper of the Admirable Class, designated AM 294 and displacing 850 tons. Its dimensions were: Length 56 m, Breadth 10 m, Draft 3 m. She was built in 1943 by the Winslow Marine Railway and Shipbuilding Co., of Seattle Washington state, USA. Some of her sister ships are still working in Mexico, Vietnam and the Philippines. This minesweeper hit a mine on 8th June 1945 during the allies' pre-invasion sweep of Brunei Bay, called 'Operation Oboe Six'. The Salute and her sister vessels of Mine division 34 were sweeping the approach routes, clearing a path for the troops who were to land on Labuan and Brunei (40,000 troops, 100 naval vessels, six assault landings). She hit a contact mine at 3.15 pm midships with catastrophic results. Four men died in the blast, 37 were wounded and the ship buckled amidships, settling at bow and stern. A landing craft attempted but failed to control the flooding and she sank at midnight in some 30 meters of water.

Initially the bow of the wreck was tilting upwards over the stern, but in the winter of 1994/1995, the weight of the bows that already were displaying a large crack caused them to fall and twist onto the stern deck so that they pointed back at the stern!

這個有點長， 看這裡 http://www.panagadivers.com/Wrecks/USS_Salute.htm

~@Star@~

全部 香肠 。。。

manggo365

哇，真的是潜水价。。。。。贵过sipadan day diving trip

ksukian

飛機有KL直飛Labuan

DC 只有一家， 沒得選

住的地方如果不要住大酒店， 住這裡 http://www.siangguesthouse.com/ 背包客很多住這裡

“普通”divers是去cement wreck 和 blue water wreck吧。。。Labuan 的 DC 是NAUI的，他們的advanced 課的wreck dive 是去cement wreck的。。。

stellalee

哇，autralian wreck 有鬼！
想见识见识

ksukian

哇，autralian wreck 有鬼！
想见识见识
stellalee 发表于 18-9-2010 01:07 PM

對咯， 相去確認一下， 是鬼還是魚。。。如果農曆七月去， 更加刺激。。。

chua2856

TT Seven Skies

蓝月

谁有兴趣？我在等价钱。。。

ksukian

谁有兴趣？我在等价钱。。。
蓝月 发表于 1-10-2010 02:32 PM

幾時幾時？ 他們好像11月到2月不開工的
這個我還相當方便跟。。。

蓝月

幾時幾時？ 他們好像11月到2月不開工的
這個我還相當方便跟。。。
ksukian 发表于 1-10-2010 02:53 PM

在汶莱的，不是你说那间。。好像要$650-750 汶莱币。。包吃住和9个潜。。。。

richcare

Japanese carrier ship sunk during WWII near Kuching.
Sitting in 25m depth with her bow only 8m from the surface!

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=62032&id=1323732274

~@Star@~

做 wreck dive  ， 是不是说 只在 外面 看着 而已 ？？？

蓝月

做 wreck dive  ， 是不是说 只在 外面 看着 而已 ？？？
~@Star@~ 发表于 5-10-2010 12:56 PM

    是。。除非你是Wreck Diver certified。。不然只有在外面看而已。。。

richcare

Japanese carrier ship sunk during WWII near Kuching.
Sitting in 25m depth with her bow only 8m from ...
richcare 发表于 3-10-2010 02:00 PM

http://www.dutchsubmarines.com/boats/boat_kxiv.htm

Japanese Troopship SS Katori Maru which sunk on 23 Dec 1941 near Kuching, Santubong.