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Dive #16 · Sunday, 5 March 2006
SS Maori
Hout Bay, Cape Town The Cape Peninsula
- Cape Peninsula Mar 2006 →
- 2nd dive of the day(also #15 Vulcan Rock)
- deeper than 69 % of all dives
- colder than 83 % of all dives
- Max depth
- 20 m
- Bottom time
- 32 min
- Water
- 10 °C
- Surface
- 10 °C
- Air
- 31 °C
- Visibility
- 8 m
Kit
- Gas
- Air
- Pressure
- 230 → 30 bar
- Mode
- Open circuit
- Weights
- 10 kg
- Suit
- 2-delig 7 mm pak
Where
SS Maori
A Shaw Savill steamer that ran onto the rocks north of Duiker Point in fog in 1909 with a cargo of railway lines, crockery and explosives — thirty-two of her fifty-three crew died.
The only dive here
With
On the map
SS Maori
No route marked
- Entry / exit
- Point of interest
- Wreck
- Pipe / tube
- Machinery
- Other object
- Shoreline
- Pipe / cable
- Wreck footprint
- Other area
- Depth
Map © divelog-sites contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf
My first wreck dive was the Maori, a ship built in 1893 that sank just off Hout Bay. First we swam through the ship, ending at a small hole up to the deck; there must have been a thousand little blue jellyfish there. Then we went underneath the wreck, which is a very odd feeling. Finally we went through a kelp garden where I saw a few fish sleeping.