Site de plongée
Kea Channel, Aegean, Greece
HMHS Britannic
Profondeur typique
122m
- Type
- Épave
- Profondeur typique
- 122 m
- Niveau
- Technical
- Visibilité
- 15–30 m
- Température
- 14–22 °C
- Courant
- Moderate
- Accès
- Permit required
- Niveau requis
- Hypoxic trimix or CCR with full deep wreck training. Greek Ministry of Culture permit required (Britannic is a designated archaeological site); divers operate under tight bottom-time and team-size limits.
- Wreck
- Deep Wreck
- Trimix
- CCR Recommended
- Permit Required
- Historic
- Exposed Site
- Overhead Environment
Quand plonger
IdéalÀ éviterCorrect
Aegean weather workable May through September. Meltemi winds in midsummer can shut down the Kea Channel for days. Permit applications gate access far more than weather.
37.7011° N, 24.2961° E
Notes
Olympic-class hospital ship, sister to Titanic. Mined 1916 in the Kea Channel. Trimix/CCR territory; Greek government permit only.
Faune marine
- Other
- largest passenger ship on the seabed — sister of Olympic and Titanic
- Pelagics
- amberjack, dentex
- Reef fish
- grouper, damselfish, seabream
- Invertebrates
- sponges, scorpionfish
Épave
- Navire
- HMHS Britannic
- Classe
- Olympic-class ocean liner converted to hospital ship
- Origine
- United Kingdom (White Star Line, requisitioned by Royal Navy)
- Coulé
- 1916 — struck a naval mine laid by German submarine U-73, 21 Nov 1916
- Longueur
- 269 m
- Pénétration
- Possible — avec formation
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