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Guest Blog Written by Tim Lawrence and all images taken by Mario Guido Rossi. For some, diving vibrant coral reef walls among some of the world’s most unique marine animals can be exciting enough. However for others, technical diving in waters deeper than 30 meters/98 feet to discover untouched dive sites can be more exhilarating. If you’re a technical …
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Durban’s Ghost Fleet In 1685 the sailing ship The Good Hope ran aground off the Bluff, South Africa and became the first recorded wreck of the Durban bay. There are 141 recorded wrecks off Durban and many more unrecorded. In the past two years we have been exploring the coastline around Durban in search of …
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Click here for Part 1 or Part 2. At this stage Allan and I had done a several dives a month together in the 60 to 80m range searching for wrecks. We planned to dive with Peter Timm in Jesser Canyon to search for the elusive Coelacanths during July of 2013. It was now March …
By Patrick Voorma PADI TecRec IT and Course Director Now the search for wrecks began. I started chatting with the local fishing community about possible wreck sites. Unfortunately theses are kept very secret as they provide some very good fish and the guys were wary of me wanting their marks even though I assured them …
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Pat Voorma introduces us to the first of his recently discovered new wrecks, off Durban, South Africa.
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