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Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand

MS Mikhail Lermontov

Profondeur typique

36m

Type
Épave
Profondeur typique
36 m
Niveau
Technical
Visibilité
5–15 m
Température
11–17 °C
Courant
Moderate
Accès
Open access
Niveau requis
Advanced Open Water + drysuit + wreck specialty for external dives on the upper hull; full wreck-penetration training and stage gas for the cabin decks, swimming pool and bridge — the wreck is a maze, with documented diver fatalities.
  • Wreck
  • Penetration
  • Deep Wreck
  • Cold Water
  • Drysuit Required
  • Overhead Environment
  • Historic
  • Intact Superstructure

Quand plonger

IdéalÀ éviterCorrect

Marlborough Sounds, top of New Zealand's South Island. NZ summer (Nov–Apr) gives the calmest seas and warmest water. Drysuit territory year-round; surface conditions in Port Gore can be exposed.

41.0833° S, 174.0167° E

Notes

Soviet cruise liner that struck rocks and sank in 1986. 176 m on her starboard side — the largest divable cruise-ship wreck in the world.

Faune marine

Other
largest divable cruise-ship wreck in the world — 176 m on her starboard side
Reef fish
blue cod, butterfly perch, tarakihi, wrasse
Cephalopods
octopus in the lifeboat davits
Invertebrates
jewel anemones, sea pens, crayfish

Épave

Navire
MS Mikhail Lermontov
Classe
Ivan Franko-class passenger cruise liner
Origine
Soviet Union
Coulé
1986 — struck rocks off Cape Jackson under harbour-pilot conduct, 16 Feb 1986; sank in Port Gore
Longueur
176 m
Pénétration
Possible — avec formation

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