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SCUBA DIVE GALLIPOLI


DAVE PLATT

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Hello All,

 

I'm heading a small group visiting the battlefields of Gallipoli in Sept, plenty to see and do but as we are all qualified wreck divers we plan to dive some of the wrecks sunk in the offensive. Quite a few listed already on various sites. A few Turkish companies boast a decent package but wonder if any members have done this before? which wrecks are best to see etc and which company did you use for equipment?

 

For example

HMS GOLIATH

  • Location: Morto Cove
  • Depth: 55-70 metres
  • Type: Canopuc-class pre-dreadnought battleship
  • Built: 1897 by the Royal Navy
  • Sunk: 13 May, 1915
  • Length: 118 metres
  • Tons: 12,950

 

HMS MAJESTIC

  • Location: Morto Cove
  • Depth: 18-29 metres
  • Type: Majestic-class pre-dreadnought battleship
  • Built: 1895
  • Sunk: 27 May, 1915
  • Length: 119 metres
  • Tons: 14,900Both struck by a mine and hit by shore batteries.

 

GAULOIS

  • Location: Kumkale
  • Depth: 45-52 metres
  • Type: Charlemagne-class pre-dreadnought battleship
  • Built: mid 1890s for the French Navy
  • Sunk: 27 December, 1916
  • Length: 117 metres
  • Tons: 10,361

 

HMS IRRESISTIBLE

  • Location: Dardanos
  • Depth: 39-61 metres
  • Type: Formidable-class pre-dreadnought battleship
  • Built: 1898
  • Sunk: 18 March, 1915
  • Length: 125 metres
  • Tons: 14,685

 

Thanks

Dave

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Hi Dave, can't help with your question, but you might be interested in this 13 minute Belgian TV doco from 1967 about salvage work on the wrecks at the Dardanelles.

https://vimeo.com/201268695

 

I picked up this book a couple of years ago. It has pictures of the Dardanelles wrecks.

http://www.divernet.com/reviews/p303120-echoes-from-the-deepby-selcuk-kolaywith-okan-taktaksavas-karakas-&-mithat-atabay.html

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On 04/02/2018 at 04:05, b3rn said:

I picked up this book a couple of years ago. It has pictures of the Dardanelles wrecks.

http://www.divernet.com/reviews/p303120-echoes-from-the-deepby-selcuk-kolaywith-okan-taktaksavas-karakas-&-mithat-atabay.html

 

This book is surely a 'must have' if your planning diving around Gallipoli


Incidentally it's last chapter also provides some answers to Loader's question
Salvaging did take place from the 1920s up to the 1970s, when it became uneconomical 
The question of losing the wrecks and the protection of any war graves was also influential in the decision to stop salvage work

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