Tauchplatz
Indian Ocean, off Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
HMS Hermes
Typische Tiefe
53m
- Typ
- Wrack
- Typische Tiefe
- 53 m
- Niveau
- Technical
- Sicht
- 15–30 m
- Wassertemperatur
- 27–30 °C
- Strömung
- Moderate
- Zugang
- Open access
- Mindeststufe
- Trimix or CCR. Wreck lies on her port side at 45–53 m; bottom times of 20+ minutes require staged decompression. War grave — touch nothing, take nothing.
- Wreck
- Deep Wreck
- Trimix
- War Grave
- Historic
- Aircraft Carrier
- Intact Superstructure
- Exposed Site
Beste Zeit
IdealVermeidenOK
Sri Lanka's east coast is divable from March through September; the northeast monsoon then shuts Batticaloa down. The wreck sits ~10 nautical miles offshore — a long boat ride from Trincomalee or Batticaloa, weather-dependent.
7.7167° N, 82.0500° E
Notizen
World's first purpose-built aircraft carrier, sunk by Japanese carrier aircraft on 9 Apr 1942 during the Indian Ocean raid. 182 m on her port side at ~53 m; war grave.
Meereslebewesen
- Rays
- eagle ray
- Other
- the world's first purpose-built aircraft carrier — war grave to over 300 lives
- Sharks
- occasional whitetip reef shark
- Pelagics
- barracuda, jacks, tuna
- Reef fish
- snapper, sweetlips, batfish, fusiliers
Wrack
- Schiff
- HMS Hermes
- Klasse
- Hermes-class aircraft carrier — the first ship designed and built as a carrier
- Herkunft
- United Kingdom (Royal Navy)
- Gesunken
- 1942 — sunk by Japanese carrier dive bombers during the Indian Ocean raid, 9 Apr 1942
- Länge
- 182 m
- Penetration
- Möglich — mit Ausbildung
Tauchbasen, die diesen Spot ansteuern
- DiveSriLanka.comQuelle
Batticaloa, Sri Lanka · Tauchbasis
- Sri Lanka Diving ToursQuelle
Negombo / Trincomalee / Batticaloa, Sri Lanka · Tauchbasis
- Tech AsiaQuelle
Puerto Galera (operates Sri Lanka tours), Philippines · Tauchbasis
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