Kowloon Bridge

Kowloon Bridge under threat from salvage---please sign the petition against this now (link below)!!

Considering this is Europe's largest wreck, there's surprisingly little information about this as a dive. I dived it probably about 4 or 5 times in 2003, and it is an amazing dive. The scale of this wreck is awesome. You can look up tonnage and the history of what happened elsewhere, but here's some info from what I remember.

#The currents and tides are considerable in this area
#she's about 300m long
#The bow is an amazing site, sitting in about 35m and coming to within 6m of the surface, it's a bulbous bow and swimming a few tens of metres away with decent vis is stunning
#Penetration is relatively easy and there are some massive openings and rooms to explore
#The seabed in the area is made entirely of the cargo of iron ore (small round pellets)
#It is possible to descend onto 'seabed' (iron-ore), swim for 10 mins and not see anything (besides fish/lobster life etc) until you come to the edge of a cargo hold, which are probably 15-20m high
#Vis can be stunning on this dive
#It's covered in life
#We dived it with Baltimore diving

More info on the ship at Irish Wrecks online here

Let me know if you have any more questions about diving the Kowloon Bridge.
I have some photos from the dives I did on it, here www.uwscotland.com/ireland

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