Deep Wreck Explorers

Shipwreck Mapping Donegal - CE21007 Live stream of wrecks of Donegal including interview from historian Thomas Balogh and deep water diver Barry McGill. Mapping of benthic habitats on shipwreck...

On August 21st, 1917, Roscommon, on a voyage from Manchester to Australia with general cargo, was sunk by the German submarine U-53 (Hans Rose), 20 miles northeast of Tory Island off the North coast of Donegal, Ireland. There were no casualties.

Great opportunity to expore the wrecks of North Donegal Ireland in 2021!! We can't wait!

Planning for summer 2021 has started 🙂
Indepth Technical Donegal Wreck Weeks for 2021

60m to 85m wreck diving

Dates
Trimix Wrecks Weeks 2021
5th to 11th June - (60m to 85m)
26th June to 2nd July (60m to 85m)

We will be also running a number of deeper weeks to some really special wrecks in the 90m to 130m+ range. Please feel free to drop us an email about these trips also.

Contact me via PM or via email ([email protected])
If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Great to be back exploring this wrecks off the North Coast of Ireland this summer again a very slow start to the year!

Here is to more good weather days to get back and capture more of these amazing wrecks!

Weather day today and a chance to catch up on some photography editing... Back in the water tomorrow to dive HMT Justicia again!! Looking forward to getting a chance to do some more photogrammetry on the wreck if the weather plays ball.

Here is a model of the stern created with help from University of Limerick and Ger Dooly

Indepth Technical Diving SANTI Diving Bigblue Dive Lights Big Blue Dive Lights - Ireland

After a weather day on Monday, we are back at it today with a visit to the iconic wreck of SS Empire Heritage with her cargo of Sherman tanks.

SS Empire Heritage was built in 1930 by Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd of Newcastle upon Tyne. 508´x 72.5´x 50.5´. She was built as the Tafelberg in 1930 for the Kerguelen Sealing & Whaling Co. Ltd., of Cape Town, South Africa. She was torpedoed on route from New York to Liverpool by German submarine U-482 with the loss of 113 lives when 15 miles North West of Malin Head. Carrying a cargo of 16,000 tons of fuel oil and 1,900 tons of deck cargo including Sherman Tanks.

SANTI Diving Indepth Technical Diving Big Blue Dive Lights - Ireland

Two dives on the HMS Audacious in 64m to start off our first North Donegal wreck week of the year... Not a bad start and visibility on the wreck is improving! Indepth Technical Diving