Deep Wreck Explorers

01/05/2021

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

23/02/2021

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.

05/11/2020

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.

28/07/2020

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

04/06/2019

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

02/06/2019

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