- Type
- Wreck
- Typical depth
- 55 m
- Level
- Technical
- Visibility
- 10–25 m
- Water temp
- 27–30 °C
- Current
- Moderate
- Access
- Permit required
- Min cert
- Trimix recommended for any meaningful bottom time on the hull at 40–55 m. War grave under the UK Protection of Military Remains Act — no entry, no recovery; conditions of access are stricter than the wreck's depth.
- Wreck
- Deep Wreck
- Trimix
- War Grave
- Permit Required
- Liveaboard Only
- Historic
- Battlecruiser
- Inverted Hull
When to dive
BestAvoidOK
Same Force Z weather window as Prince of Wales — shut down by the northeast monsoon. Repulse lies upside-down some 8 nautical miles north of Prince of Wales; both wrecks are typically dived on the same liveaboard charter.
3.7833° N, 104.8000° E
Notes
Renown-class battlecruiser sunk in the same 10 Dec 1941 attack as Prince of Wales. Lies on her port side; deck at ~40 m, hull at ~55 m. Protected war grave.
Marine life
- Other
- war grave to over 500 lives — designated under UK Protection of Military Remains Act
- Pelagics
- barracuda, tuna
- Reef fish
- snapper, grouper, batfish, sweetlips
- Invertebrates
- soft coral on the bilge keels, anemones
Wreck
- Vessel
- HMS Repulse
- Class
- Renown-class battlecruiser
- Origin
- United Kingdom (Royal Navy)
- Sunk
- 1941 — torpedoed by Imperial Japanese Navy land-based aircraft (Force Z action), 10 Dec 1941
- Length
- 242 m
- Penetration
- Not advised
Dive clubs that visit this site
- Dive Tioman / B&J Diving Centresource
Tioman Island, Malaysia · Dive centre
- GS-Divingsource
Singapore, Singapore · Dive centre
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