One of our projects was to find and map the steamship “City of Hobart” which foundered in 1877.Due to its remote location Air View will be used as a liveaboard dive vessel .There are two wrecks close to this site .A search was planned for early 2015 when favourable sea conditions were forecast .After many…
After 70 years IANTD with SOE and a team of divers on the IANTD vessel “MV Action” discover the wreck of the Coramba . Lost with all hands it has been a mystery as to what became of the coastal trader which was lost in one of Victoria’s biggest storms in the early 1930’s ….
By Martin Tozer/ Southern Ocean Explorers) The Glenelg first traded under the British flag until entering service in 1880 on the Australian coastal run between Adelaide, Hobart and Sydney. It had a variety of owners over the next 20 odd years, spending most of that time around the east coast of Australia, until purchased in…
(or How wreck identification isn’t always easy!) Written by Greg Blair & Barrie Heard When wrecks have been re-discovered post sinking/scuttling there is a fair amount of effort involved in, first identifying, then verifying, exactly what is the name of the vessel. Sometimes this effort involves far more time than what was spent “mowing the…
On 15 June 1940 a Nazi raider named the Pinguin embarked on a mission to capture and destroy as many allied merchant ships as possible. Between June 1940 and May 1941 the Pinguin’s Captain Kruder was responsible for one of the most successful operations by any German raider in World War II . Travelling from…
The City of Rayville sits in 72 meters and is only dived by experienced Trimix Divers .One of the first divers to visit the wreck were IANTD Instructors Barry Heard and Bob Wealthy. SS City of Rayville, also referred to as the MV and/or MS City of Rayville was a 5883-ton American steamship. She was…
The SS Milora was a 3,347 tonne coal steamship constructed in 1893. After a long career of service and mishaps, including grounding on Point Lonsdale Reef in 1934, she was stripped of valuables, towed into Bass Strait about five kilometers off Torquay, and scuttled with explosive charges in 1935. Today, she rests as the largest…