Hollantilainen

After the first dive we changed location and Ari marked for us a wooden wreck that remains still unidentified. It is a sailing ship from about 1860…70’s based on construction details. Estimated length is 70 meters and it had 4 masts. All the masts are there lying on the bottom, which indicates that rescue was never attempted, and it had sunk very quickly. It is next to big rocks. Most of the wreckage lies at 24 m on top of a big underwater rock. The masts have dropped deeper to the sides of the rock to about 30 m. There are two big anchors, and the ship’s bell can is still there. The hull has fallen apart.
I switched my back tanks and was going to take deco stage. Me and Mattias and Harri went down again as first divers down the shot line to 24 m. The shot wasn’t quite at the right place. Mattias was familiar with this site. Now Mattias took the reel and he quickly located the anchors. He then moved the shot in between the anchors, and then we dived along the main part of the hull’s remains. Then the masts of the rear. We also found the ship’s bell. Visibility was something like 4 to 6 meters. Not as good as expected but not too bad either. I took lot of pictures anyway. We spent some 40 min at the wreck, then started ascent, switched all to 50% at 21 m and did all the decos. Total dive time came just about one hour.
Water was 10 degrees and so quite warm. However, I still had some extra clothing under the dry suit and my weights of 6.6 kg were pretty ok at 24 meters, but not quite enough for the twin-10 tanks getting almost empty at 6 meters. I had to struggle at 5 m to keep buoyancy right and really had to squeeze the dry suit as empty as possible, and that was quite uncomfortable and I was getting a bit cold doing the deco. For the next dive I took one wool sweater off.