Tug Boat Rozi Wreck, Cirkewwa - Malta (Dives 7 & 9)

 

MALTA#7 Tug Boat Rozi

Entry: 10:02

Dive time: 38 min

Depth: 30.8m

Temp: 25 degrees C

Weights: 4kg 

Insultaion: 5mm wet suit 

Group: S, S, C

 

 

 

 

MALTA#8 Tunnel and Arch

Entry: 11:56

Dive time: 43 min

Depth: 17.7m

Temp: 25 degrees C

Weights: 4kg 

Insultaion: 5mm wet suit 

Group: M, F, A

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Karslruhe II, Scapa Flow, Orkney - Scotland

 

Entry: 11:33

Dive time: 42min

Depth: 25.3m

Temp: 12 degrees C

Weights: 12kg 

Air: Nitrox 32

Scapa2#11

Buddy: Jo

 http://www.scapaflowwrecks.com/wrecks/karlsruhe/diving.php

Third dive back at the Karlsruhe and we definitely found it again - two out of three times! (",)

This was a surprise dive as the MV Karin had problems yesterday and we thought we had done our last dive.  An engineer came to look at the engine, presumed gearbox problem, sorted it out and the captain was keen to test how it sailed..  We were given the option of doing another dive and most were keen.

 

Sea squirt

Wreck info from Scap Flow Wreck.com:

Nationality: German
Launched: 31 January 1916
Commissioned: 15 November 1916
Builder: Kaiserliche Werft, Kiel (Imperial Dockyard Kiel)
Construction number: 41
Type: Light Cruiser
Subtype/class: Königsberg class
Displacement (standard): 5440 tonnes
Displacement (full load): 7125 tonnes
Length overall: 112m*
Beam: 12m
Draught: 6.32 - 5.96m
Complement: 475 men
Material: Steel
Cause of loss: Scuttled
Date lost: 21 June 1919; 1550 hrs
Casualties (in scuttling): 0
Propulsion: Ten coal-fired and two oil-fired doubled ended marine type boilers, two sets
marine type turbines (high pressure turbines worked by geared transmission),
two propellers
Fuel: 1340 tonnes coal, 500 tonnes oil
Range: 4850 nautical miles at 12 knots
Power: 55700 shp** maximum
Speed: 27.7 knots maximum
Armour: ranges from 20mm – 60mm (position dependent),
control tower 100mm (on the sides)
Armament: 8 x 15cm guns, 2 x 8.8cm guns, 2 x 50cm deck mounted torpedo tubes, 2 x
50cm lateral submerged torpedo tubes, 200 deck-mounted mines

 

Endeavor, Orkney - Scotland

Entry: 16:26

Dive time: 35min

Depth: 21m

Temp: 12 degrees C

Weights: 12kg 

Air: Nitrox 32

Scapa2#9

 

The Endeavour was a trawler which sank in 1918 near Kirkwall.  The tides were really very strong and a number of divers really struggled to find the wreck.  We stayed really low having carefully followed the shot line down.  We spotted the wreck to our left and quickly made our way over.  We did three circles of the wreckIt now lies at 27m.

 

 

Disperser, Orkney - Scotland

Entry: 10:24

Dive time: 39min

Depth: 25m

Temp: 12 degrees C

Weights: 12kg 

Air: Nitrox 25

Scapa2#8

Karlsruhe II, Scapa Flow, Orkney - Scotland

 

Entry: 13:49

Dive time: 40min

Depth: 25.9m

Temp: 12 degrees C

Weights: 12kg 

Air: Nitrox 32

Scapa2#5

 

Kronprinz Wilheim, Scapa Flow, Orkney - Scotland

 

Entry: 13:49

Dive time: 34min

Depth: 33.8m

Temp: 11 degrees C

Weights: 12kg 

Air: Nitrox 32

Scapa2#4

 

F2 and YC21, Scapa Flow, Orkney - Scotland

Entry: 14:08

Dive time: 57min

Depth: 16.5m

Temp: 11 degrees C

Weights: 12kg

Scapa2#4

 

 

Coln II, Scapa Flow, Orkney - Scotland

 

 

Entry: 10:46

Dive time: 27min

Depth: 41m

Temp: 11 degrees C

Weights: 12kg 

Scapa2#2

 Success! Made sure we stuck to the shot line going down.

Karlsuhe II, Scapa Flow, Orkney - Scotland

 

 

Karlsruhe II at sea

Dive briefing from Roy

Entry: 14:01

Dive time: 27min

Depth: 25.3m

Temp: 14 degrees C

Weights: 12kg 

Scapa2#1 

Buddy: Danielle

Not a great start to the trip! We got a wee bit lost going down the shot line and didn't find the wreck.

Ended up swimming around in circles for a while but didn't manage to see it.

Found a big chain just as we were about to surface and followed it but there was nothing at the end.

The Karlsruhe is used as a 'warm-up' dive as its depth is between 14-27m.  It's also not very far from Stromness and located close to the island of Cava, at its northwesterly tip.  In the map above, it is located at position 5. 

Didn't find it today but would find it later on in the trip.

It was great getting back to Scapa. Drove up in the ‘Paddy Wagon’. It was a nice drive up to Gill’s Bay ferry terminal over to Stromness to then load stuff up directly to the MV Karin.

Junker88 - Menorca, Spain

This Junkers 88 was a German World War II Luftwaffe twin-engined fighter plane. Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke (JFM) designed the plane in the mid-1930s as a so-called Schnellbomber (fast bomber) that would be too fast for fighters of its era to intercept.

It suffered from a number of technical problems during its development and early operational periods but became one of the most versatile combat aircraft of the war. Like a number of other Luftwaffe bombers, it served as a bomber, dive bomber, night fighter, torpedo bomber, reconnaissance aircraft, heavy fighter and at the end of the war, as a flying bomb.

Despite protracted development, it became one of the Luftwaffe's most important aircraft. The assembly line ran constantly from 1936 to 1945 and more than 16,000 Ju 88s were built in dozens of variants, more than any other twin-engine German aircraft of the period. Throughout production the basic structure of the aircraft remained unchanged.

(Wikipedia)

Dive time: 37 minutes

Entry time: 10:26am

Depth: 47.3m

Temp:  15 C

Visibility: 10m+

On this dive I was with Javier Farto.  He was interested in speleology and uploads his videos here.