Trip Report Louisiana shipwreck diving

[aue-mike]

Start off your humpday with a visit to the HAMLET, a Norwegian tanker sunk off Louisiana in 1942!
The HAMLET was built in 1934 as the EIDSVOLD, and later was the ABU before becoming the HAMLET. She was sunk by U-753 on May 24, 1942. The U-753 logo was a skull and crossbones with the motto "Noch Und Noch" or "Again and Again". She sits upright but there is a break in the hull just after of the forward superstructure as well as on the starboard side of the bow. The engine room and aft accommodation areas are largely intact, but choked up with mud in portions. But various fittings are still in place and even numerous intact lightbulbs can be found floating up on the ceiling in this area.
There is also a visit to an offshore rig on the way back in. Great diving with great friends!

 

[sea_ledford]

Nice!

How high does she stand off the bottom? That looked like pretty fantastic vis for the bottom of the GOM. Off Texas the nepheloid layer is usually the bottom 20-40 feet.

 

[aue-mike]

About 20-30 feet depending on the area of the wreck. We tried diving it the following day and the layer had moved up in the column so even the high parts were clouded over. I heard earlier in the year they didn't have the nasty surface water for almost two months...just blue water. That would have been nice to hit...

 

[johndiver999]

Nice video.. Where the heck did they come up with that boat? Is it homemade? Half airstream, half ?

 

[sea_ledford]

About 20-30 feet depending on the area of the wreck. We tried diving it the following day and the layer had moved up in the column so even the high parts were clouded over. I heard earlier in the year they didn't have the nasty surface water for almost two months...just blue water. That would have been nice to hit...

Gotta love the Oreo cookie of visibility!