Post by Dive Bunnie on Dec 9, 2005 13:19:00 GMT
Breaking news as we speak!
Well huge congratulations have to go out to all the guys on the Yolande project (sorry no girlies on board, but hey.. we are all diving in the same sea)
Leigh Cunningham, Mark Andrews and their team have just surfaced from the deepest wreck dive ever having found and videoed the Yolande itself.
Those of you who have dived the Northern Red sea may have visited the Shark and Yolande reefs, even seen the cargo of scattered toilet bowls on the sandy saddle left behind when the original wreck was pushed over the drop off during a storm in the mid eighties.
Well Leigh had dived the site earlier this year and found signs of the wreck itself lying covered in sand at around 47m.
Today they managed to actually dive the whole wreck... a maximum depth of around 200m!!!! Which makes it the deepest wreck dive in the world ever.
So a huge well done! to them, along with their team: Jimmy, Doozer, John Kean and Tim P from Ocean College along with the others from both the Oonas and Colona dive centres and Ocean Tec who supplied all the gas mixes. ;D
Well huge congratulations have to go out to all the guys on the Yolande project (sorry no girlies on board, but hey.. we are all diving in the same sea)
Leigh Cunningham, Mark Andrews and their team have just surfaced from the deepest wreck dive ever having found and videoed the Yolande itself.
Those of you who have dived the Northern Red sea may have visited the Shark and Yolande reefs, even seen the cargo of scattered toilet bowls on the sandy saddle left behind when the original wreck was pushed over the drop off during a storm in the mid eighties.
Well Leigh had dived the site earlier this year and found signs of the wreck itself lying covered in sand at around 47m.
Today they managed to actually dive the whole wreck... a maximum depth of around 200m!!!! Which makes it the deepest wreck dive in the world ever.
So a huge well done! to them, along with their team: Jimmy, Doozer, John Kean and Tim P from Ocean College along with the others from both the Oonas and Colona dive centres and Ocean Tec who supplied all the gas mixes. ;D
