Sea Star Dive Site

[moray48]

The Sea Star was sunk as a dive site by UNEXSO, The harbor,and Grand bahama towing A few years ago. here is a link I found on BASRA Web Site pictures as she sank.

http://www.basragrandbahama.org/BASRA News.htm

Dive Safe

Jim

 

[mavjax]

The Sea Star was sunk as a dive site by UNEXSO, The harbor,and Grand bahama towing A few years ago. here is a link I found on BASRA Web Site pictures as she sank.

http://www.basragrandbahama.org/BASRA News.htm

Dive Safe

Jim

Thanks for the link. I dove Sea Star last month. It was my first wreck dive... and I am now completly hooked on wrecks. Here is a link to my dive log on Family Diving Network including a few pics

 

[Virgil]

Thanks for posting that. I dived Sea Star a couple of times last year and it's always good to see some history of the wrecks you dive.

Also, I seem to recall that the divers who originally started the project were killed before seeing it come to fruition and there is a plaque on the Sea Star commemorating the fact.

 

[moray48]

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Also, I seem to recall that the divers who originally started the project were killed before seeing it come to fruition and there is a plaque on the Sea Star commemorating the fact.


The Sea Star was impounded by the Bahama goverment for smuggling drugs, It was sitting in the Harbor for quite a while ,and sunk. Cathy O'Brien A Instructor and sharkfeeder at UNEXSO had the Idea of sinking it as a dive site, she convinced the harbor and goverment to allow it to be sunk as a dive site. This was back in the summer of 2001. Cathy died in a car accident November 25th 2001. Unexso and Freeport towing, refloated the ship, and Woody and Christina (Instructors at Unexso) spent the winter and spring cleaning the ship preparing it for the dive site. It was sunk april 24th 2002. In september 2002 I made a plaque for Cathy and mounted on the wreck, some low life scum stole it,so I replaced it with a new one. I have no ties to Unexso Cathy was a friend and it is an nice reminder of her efforts and foresight.

Dive safe

Jim I attached a picture of the plaque

 

[Virgil]

Thanks for the update Jim. I'm pleased to say that the plaque was sitting proudly in place when I dived the Sea Star last December.

I remember the dive master telling us that someone had stolen the original... unbelievable!

 

[kiwiman411]

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Also, I seem to recall that the divers who originally started the project were killed before seeing it come to fruition and there is a plaque on the Sea Star commemorating the fact.


The Sea Star was impounded by the Bahama goverment for smuggling drugs, It was sitting in the Harbor for quite a while ,and sunk. Cathy O'Brien A Instructor and sharkfeeder at UNEXSO had the Idea of sinking it as a dive site, she convinced the harbor and goverment to allow it to be sunk as a dive site. This was back in the summer of 2001. Cathy died in a car accident November 25th 2001. Unexso and Freeport towing, refloated the ship, and Woody and Christina (Instructors at Unexso) spent the winter and spring cleaning the ship preparing it for the dive site. It was sunk april 24th 2002. In september 2002 I made a plaque for Cathy and mounted on the wreck, some low life scum stole it,so I replaced it with a new one. I have no ties to Unexso Cathy was a friend and it is an nice reminder of her efforts and foresight.

Dive safe

Jim I attached a picture of the plaque
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Jim if you are still an active member of this page could you private message me. My girlfriend is cathy obriens youngest daughter look forward to hearing from you thank you.