Reconsidering Deep Air?

[Wibble]

Gone completly, as are her two cosorts, save for some scraps in a few instances!!! As are De Ruyter, Java, Perch, and the list goes on. No intact 'worth diving' steel wrecks whatsoever left in Jave Sea 'cept USS Houston down in Sunda Strait.

What happened to them? Salvaged?

 

[Centrals]

What happened to them? Salvaged?

Ghost ships: why are World War II naval wrecks vanishing in Indonesia?

Lost bones, a mass grave and war wrecks plundered off Indonesia

The strange case of the disappearing ship wrecks - Gray Page


Not that many left now I am afraid! HMS Hermes perhaps is still intact because it is so close to the city of Batticaloa off the East coast of Sri Lanka. And IJN Haguro off the island of Penang.

The WW2 shipwrecks that disappeared: Underwater explorer Kevin Denlay’s interview on the lost fleet of the Pacific – PART 2 – WW2Wrecks.com

If you are interested to dive HMS Hermes

Sri Lanka Diving Tours - TEC & Scuba Diving | HMS Hermes | Whales

 

[Pressurehead]

ex-navy (or Irish, whose genes I proudly carry, along with my Levis).

Oh dear, same genes except Levis.
King Prawn Ho Fun Rice Noodles Sembawang Singapore , yes please.
Topic: I like this,

If they only have one deco gas no matter how pear-shaped the dive, they probably can salvage enough deco not to die.

 

[Kay Dee]

And IJN Haguro off the island of Penang.

No, Haguro gone, or just a shadow of her former self. She remained upright and almost pristine, save for battle damage and decay from when we located her in 2003 to as late as our survey in 2010, when I last dived her. But they got to her as well as Kuma - sometime between 2012 and 2015 IIRC - which I am told is basically completely gone. Haguro sat upright in 67m and was dived on air - not by me as I was CCR - every time I went to her, which was several.
https://pacificwrecks.com/ships/ijn/haguro/expedition-operation-dukedom- 2010-EC-flag-52-report.pdf

 

[Wibble]

Looks like they need some mines on those wrecks so we can have a shiny new salvage barge to dive on. Then other salvage barges come along and salvage the salvage barge...

Bigger fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite them,
and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum

 

[Centrals]

No, Haguro gone, or just a shadow of her former self. She remained upright and almost pristine, save for battle damage and decay from when we located her in 2003 to as late as our survey in 2010, when I last dived her. But they got to her as well as Kuma - sometime between 2012 and 2015 IIRC - which I am told is basically completely gone. Haguro sat upright in 67m and was dived on air - not by me as I was CCR - every time I went to her, which was several.
https://pacificwrecks.com/ships/ijn/haguro/expedition-operation-dukedom- 2010-EC-flag-52-report.pdf

A rare treat for a heavy cruiser to sit up-right. All the five turrets were there if my memory is correct. Lot of lot of fishing nest especially over the collapsed superstructure. We all enjoyed the dive and the Sun Vista as well. Did not dive Kuma because of weather. And that was before 2012. Time does fly!

What a Shame.

 

[Dr Simon Mitchell]

No, Haguro gone, or just a shadow of her former self. She remained upright and almost pristine, save for battle damage and decay from when we located her in 2003 to as late as our survey in 2010, when I last dived her. But they got to her as well as Kuma - sometime between 2012 and 2015 IIRC - which I am told is basically completely gone. Haguro sat upright in 67m and was dived on air - not by me as I was CCR - every time I went to her, which was several.
https://pacificwrecks.com/ships/ijn/haguro/expedition-operation-dukedom- 2010-EC-flag-52-report.pdf

That is an awesome report! I can't believe these salvors have been allowed to get away with destroying these war graves.

Simon

 

[Celt]

Ship casualties didn’t stop the British and other governments drawing up lists and doing deals with Sorima, Risdon Beazley and Smit Tak when there was money to be made.

 

[Centrals]

That is an awesome report! I can't believe these salvors have been allowed to get away with destroying these war graves.

All those wrecks HMS Repulse, HMS PoW, IJN Haguro and IJN Kuma are all well within Malaysian territory.
Seems to me both Indonesian and Malaysian are NOT too concern of what is happening in their water.
No wonder both of them failed to notice the peculiar flight pattern of MH-370.

 

[Kay Dee]

That is an awesome report! I can't believe these salvors have been allowed to get away with destroying these war graves.

Simon

Thanks Simon. But get away they did / have!

Now, given you 'interests' so to speak, you may care to check this thread out.
Best underwater shipwreck photographic book ever!