Posts tagged ‘shipwrecks’

C47 Civillian Transport Plane

By tim, 7 October, 2010, No Comment

Tim, Kris, Marielle and a new trimix student are out technical diving again around Koh Tao, looking to take advantage of the unusually calm weather we’ve got at the momen. We’ll be diving on mild tri-mix to take the edge off at 60m. We will be shooting some video and trying to find out what the cargo was, if any, as we’re having trouble finding out about any of the history of the C47 civillian transport plane.

We will be putting are findings, along with videos on our website www.davyjoneslocker.asia

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New Look For DJL bar

By tim, 1 December, 2009, No Comment

The Monsoon has been very light this year so theres been a lot of great diving being done which has left less time for getting the bar ready for another high season, but with time moving on we have been thinking of themes for the bar and have decided to go with the old theme of shipwrecks. Using the pieces collected over 20 years of looking for wrecks that we had originally displayed in the museum on Koh Tao that we closed when the shop moved to Sairee beach, as our philosophy has always been to display to the public the compasses and portholes ect with the history and picture of the shipwreck so that its memory can be preserved and the lessons learnt from it loss better understood by future seafairers, instead of leaving the artifacts locked away in a cupboard to deteriorate over the years. We feel this will be a visually stimulating and educational asset to the DJL group and give a fantastic backdrop to the parties we have all enjoyed here over the past years.

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Wreck Discovery – Straits of Malacca

By Ollie the Spaniard, 24 November, 2009, No Comment

A team of divers from Davy Jones Locker recently located a shipwreck in the Penang straits of Malacca. The wreck is of a currently unknown cargo vessel of approximately 2500BRT.

After chartering a local fishing boat the team of technical divers from DJL accidentally discovered the wreck after searching for a wreck of a WW2 British submarine.

The cargo vessel sits at 60m and has a huge crane lying next to the main hold of the ship. The cargo has spilled into the sand around the crane as a result of sinking. The bridge sits upright and has nets flying from its mast as if clawing for the surface.

The team also located and identified a Japanese submarine and a large boiler from a steamship believed to have fallen foul to a British submarine.

The team comprised of Fri, Jeremy, Tim 2 and was led by Tim Lawrence from Davy Jones’ Locker, all of whom plan to resume the search to identify the vessel as soon as possible

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