Depth
26 m
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Comments
Saarenmaa diving trip 6-9 September 2018 of Kupla diving Club.
Dive #2 of the trip. This dive was to the wreck of Altair. We had breakfast at 7 AM, and scheduled van departure 8 AM. Before that Sander gave us a briefing.
The German North Sea fishing trawler was built in Papenburg at Jos. L. Meyer Shipyard in 1916. The ship was armed and took part of the German landing to Saaremaa in 1917. Was lost on 14 October 1917 between Hiiumaa and Saaremaa. 231 BRT, displacement 550 t, length 39,02 and width 7,10 meters, steam engine 500 HP, crew of 31 men.
Sources:
http://divescover.com/dive-site/wreck-altair-/41548
https://register.muinas.ee/public.php?menuID=en_monument&action=view&id=30728
The ship wreck is in the Estonian Maritime Museum registry ID 947, monument 30728. Diving the wreck requires a permission. It was found 4 July 2012. There is a permanent mooring buoy at the site.
The wreck location is 58:41.133 N 22:15.033 E, roughly between the islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa. From the Ninase cruise ship harbour it was 10 nm boat ride, which took 30 min.
The wreck lies now at 26 m depth. It is broken into two pieces torn by a mine explosion. The bow part is about 10 meters and lies on left side of the main section.
As this was too deep for Eero, he was assigned to dive with the other group, and the rest of us dove the wreck. This time I dove with Juuso, who had 2x12L tanks. It was agreed not to do a deco dive. We both had air, which limited the NDL time to about 25 min. Juuso had Suunto Vyper at P0 setting, I had Shearwater at OC-TEC mode Buhlmann GF=30/85.
Me and Juuso went first to the water. When reaching 20 m, we could see another marker buoy at the bottom and it was easy to locate the wreck. We first dove around the main section, and then to the bow section. I has my camera, but it was really dark down. Visibility was still not so great, maybe 5 meters, temperature at bottom 12 deg-C. There were lot of interesting details to be seen at the wreck and it was very interesting.
At 22 min Juuso’s computer was running out of no deco time, so we started ascent. We did normal safety stop at 5 m and then back to surface and boat. There were no issues. Juuso had 120 bar left after the dive, I had 150 bar.
When everyone got back to boat, we drove back to harbor, where the other group was waiting to go diving. We got back to Pidula Forell for lunch and refilling of tanks.
photos:
https://photos.leiman.fi/p100392729
Dive #2 of the trip. This dive was to the wreck of Altair. We had breakfast at 7 AM, and scheduled van departure 8 AM. Before that Sander gave us a briefing.
The German North Sea fishing trawler was built in Papenburg at Jos. L. Meyer Shipyard in 1916. The ship was armed and took part of the German landing to Saaremaa in 1917. Was lost on 14 October 1917 between Hiiumaa and Saaremaa. 231 BRT, displacement 550 t, length 39,02 and width 7,10 meters, steam engine 500 HP, crew of 31 men.
Sources:
http://divescover.com/dive-site/wreck-altair-/41548
https://register.muinas.ee/public.php?menuID=en_monument&action=view&id=30728
The ship wreck is in the Estonian Maritime Museum registry ID 947, monument 30728. Diving the wreck requires a permission. It was found 4 July 2012. There is a permanent mooring buoy at the site.
The wreck location is 58:41.133 N 22:15.033 E, roughly between the islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa. From the Ninase cruise ship harbour it was 10 nm boat ride, which took 30 min.
The wreck lies now at 26 m depth. It is broken into two pieces torn by a mine explosion. The bow part is about 10 meters and lies on left side of the main section.
As this was too deep for Eero, he was assigned to dive with the other group, and the rest of us dove the wreck. This time I dove with Juuso, who had 2x12L tanks. It was agreed not to do a deco dive. We both had air, which limited the NDL time to about 25 min. Juuso had Suunto Vyper at P0 setting, I had Shearwater at OC-TEC mode Buhlmann GF=30/85.
Me and Juuso went first to the water. When reaching 20 m, we could see another marker buoy at the bottom and it was easy to locate the wreck. We first dove around the main section, and then to the bow section. I has my camera, but it was really dark down. Visibility was still not so great, maybe 5 meters, temperature at bottom 12 deg-C. There were lot of interesting details to be seen at the wreck and it was very interesting.
At 22 min Juuso’s computer was running out of no deco time, so we started ascent. We did normal safety stop at 5 m and then back to surface and boat. There were no issues. Juuso had 120 bar left after the dive, I had 150 bar.
When everyone got back to boat, we drove back to harbor, where the other group was waiting to go diving. We got back to Pidula Forell for lunch and refilling of tanks.
photos:
https://photos.leiman.fi/p100392729
Tanks
Main tank
- Volume
- 10,0 l
- Press. Start
- 219 bar
- Press. End
- 151 bar
- O2%
- 21,0%