- Typ
- Wrack
- Typische Tiefe
- 93 m
- Niveau
- Technical
- Sicht
- 5–15 m
- Wassertemperatur
- 9–14 °C
- Strömung
- Moderate
- Zugang
- Permit required
- Mindeststufe
- Full trimix with multi-hour decompression. Wreck is protected under the Irish National Monuments Acts; a licence from the Underwater Archaeology Unit is required to dive or recover artefacts.
- Wreck
- Deep Wreck
- Trimix
- Cold Water
- Drysuit Required
- War Grave
- Permit Required
- Historic
- Exposed Site
Beste Zeit
IdealVermeidenOK
Celtic Sea weather window is narrow — surface conditions and visibility best in calm summer high-pressure systems. Wreck is exposed; surface swell and current dictate go/no-go.
51.4233° N, 8.5619° W
Notizen
Cunard liner torpedoed by U-20 in 1915, ~11 nautical miles (20 km) off the Old Head of Kinsale. Designated heritage site; permit required.
Meereslebewesen
- Other
- site is a designated heritage wreck and war grave — over 1,100 lives lost
- Pelagics
- seasonal blue shark sightings on the surface interval
- Reef fish
- pollack, wrasse, conger eel
- Invertebrates
- plumose anemone, dead-mans-fingers, jewel anemone, lobster
Wrack
- Schiff
- RMS Lusitania
- Klasse
- ocean liner
- Herkunft
- United Kingdom (Cunard Line)
- Gesunken
- 1915 — torpedoed by German submarine U-20, 7 May 1915
- Länge
- 239 m
- Penetration
- Nicht empfohlen
Tauchbasen, die diesen Spot ansteuern
- Kinsale Deep Sea Angling (Charter Boat HARPY)Quelle
Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland · Tagesboot
- Lusitania Project 17Quelle
Kinsale (research expedition), Ireland · Verein
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