Tauchplatz
SS President Coolidge
Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu
- Typische Tiefe
- 70 m
- Typ
- Wrack
- Niveau
- Technical
Notizen
Converted US troop transport that struck friendly mines on 26 Oct 1942 entering Segond Channel. 199 m on her port side; bow at 21 m, stern at ~73 m — one of the largest readily accessible shipwrecks in the world, with shore entry from Luganville.
Meereslebewesen
- Macro
- flatworms, nudibranchs
- Other
- 'The Lady' — a porcelain bas-relief in the first-class smoking room is the wreck's signature artefact
- Corals
- hard coral colonising the bow rails and superstructure
- Reef fish
- lionfish, batfish, barracuda, sweetlips
- Cephalopods
- reef octopus
Wrack
- Schiff
- SS President Coolidge
- Klasse
- luxury ocean liner converted to troop transport
- Herkunft
- United States
- Gesunken
- 1942 — struck two friendly American mines entering Segond Channel, 26 Oct 1942
- Länge
- 199 m
- Penetration
- Möglich — mit Ausbildung
Eigenschaften
- Wreck
- Penetration
- Deep Wreck
- Trimix
- Overhead Environment
- Historic
- Shore Entry
- Intact Superstructure
- War Grave
Beste Zeit
- Ideal
- Apr–Nov
- Vermeiden
- Jan–Feb
Vanuatu's dry season (April–October) gives the calmest seas; the Coolidge sits in Segond Channel close to Luganville with shore entry, so weather rarely cancels dives. Cyclone risk peaks January–March.
Bedingungen & Zugang
- Sicht
- 15–30 m
- Wassertemperatur
- 26–29 °C
- Strömung
- Mild
- Zugang
- Open access
- Mindeststufe
- Advanced Open Water + wreck specialty for the bow at 21 m; deep + wreck-penetration training and stage gas for the engine room, holds and stern at 50–70 m. Multi-day, multi-dive itinerary is the norm.
Standort
15.5167° S, 167.2167° E
Tauchbasen, die diesen Spot ansteuern
2 Anbieter führen diesen Spot auf ihren Websites
- Allan Power Dive ToursBanban, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu · Tauchbasis[Quelle]
- Pacific DiveLuganville, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu · Tauchbasis[Quelle]
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