This looks like it's going to be fun

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Why contribute - Ocean Revival

Soon they'll be sinking the ships. Looks like they're hand-building a dive location from scratch, big enough to really draw in the crowds.

 

[nelsonrl]

Be nice to see the financials. Maybe it's there somewhere, but I like to know how much of the contributions go to the cause and how much goes to overhead. I am not suggesting anything, but I just prefer a little more disclosure from a non-profit. Everyone make up,their own minds on this.

The project does loom interersting.

 

[Nereus]

I watched it last night on PBS and thought "What a great idea". I'd read about the Vandenburg before, but had no Idea that they were sinking other ships. Way Kewl!
oops, It was a different organization and show I watched. The one I'm thinking of sunk 3 ships off the coasts of Florida.

 

[Token]

Sinking ships to create reefs is somewhat controversial ["junkpiles on the ocean floor"] but seems like a good idea where natural reefs are lacking or non-existant. Dunno if I'll ever get to Portugal tho'....

 

[Pane]

Even if you don't contribute, you'll get to dive the location, I imagine.

For me, going to Portugal is closer than most diving locations, and 4 such large wrecks should be very cool to dive on. I just hope that local schools don't start dropping newbies into those wrecks. It's one thing to do a swim-through on a 10 meter wreck where you can see out all the time, quite another to start puttering around inside these beasts.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

I've spent some time helping to prepare the HMCS Annapolis for sinking ... including doing a survey dive of its projected resting place. There's a helluva a lot of work and money needed to prepare these ships for sinking ... between removing virtually anything recycleable or harmful to the environment, cleaning the ship (bilges and fuel tanks are especially nasty), and making it reasonably "safe" for diver penetration.

The Annapolis has been a work in progress for about three years. They were hoping to put it down this past week-end, but a last minute snag had them putting it off until next month.

This part's going to be especially fun for divers ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[highdesert]

The chairs will be a novel addition to the wreck ...

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

They're already gone ... during our workdays that was where we'd break for lunch when it was too cold to sit out on the flight deck ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[Searcaigh]

The chairs will be a novel addition to the wreck ...

I bet they float

Personally I like the idea, we have three small ships deliberately sunk off the east coast of UAE in different locations and at various depths from 20M to 30M, all were support vessels in the oil and gas industry and not much more than 20M in length.

The life on these wrecks is incredible after 10 years underwater.

I for one might make a trip to Portugal to dive the wrecks once the second one is in place, plus it appears that there are quite a few other places to dive there that I was not aware of.