On the morning of the fifth day we did a wreck dive. I love wreck dives. Its like visiting a ghost town. I dunno. I've always wanted to explore inside a wreck but the opportunity has never come up, most wrecks I've encountered were mostly broken apart, no insides to speak of.
This one was pretty intact and sat at a dept of 20 - 36 meters. The propeller was at its deepest point and deeper than I could go. Not physically but my dive computer is an older model and only goes to 30 meters. Going beyond that would just screw up the computer's calculations and leave me in an awkward decompression situation.
So no propellor for me! Instead I investigated the top of the ship (a cargo vessel) where the main point of interest was the wheelhouse. I've always wanted to go in one.
So that is what I set out to do. I swam around and up to the wheelhouse checking out the ship and all the wildlife that has made the wreck their home. The place is awesome but I can't help but feel the sheer number of divers on the site kind of takes away the mystery a bit.
No here is the kicker. I go into the wheelhouse and line myself up in the center of the room and switch on my camera and get a nice panning shot. Then I switched it off. Only I didn't switch it off. The camera was one as I swam into the wheelhouse, then I switched it off and did the panning shot thinking it was on.. anyway.. long story short, I have a lot of footage of my leg and fin and no footage of the wheelhouse from inside. It took a while to realise this mistake and by that time i didn't know if I had gotten the wheelhouse shot or not and I didn't have the air to go back..
On the bright side, one of the other divers in my group took this photo of me (with my dad in the background) and sent it to me the other day.
Check out the video of the wreck:
Check out the previous posts in this series:
1.Maldives Trip - Day 1: The Epic Journey Begins!
2.Maldives Trip - Day 1: The Boat
3.Maldives Trip Day 2 - Looking for Manta Rays
4.Maldives Trip - Day 2 - Shark Encounter
5.Maldives Trip Day 3 - Reef Exploration
6.Maldives Trip Day 3 - Things don't go to plan
7.Maldives Trip Day 4 - Sea Turtle Sighting!
8.Maldives Trip Day 4 - The Jellyfish Monster
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