Co. Kerry Wreck List "B"
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Vessel Type:

Motor Fishing Vessel

Location: Co. Kerry
Date of Loss: 24th November 1988 Place: Valentia Sound
Cause of Loss: Foundered Boat Dive from: Valentia Island
Charted Depth: 14 Irish O.S. Map: Discovery Series No. 83
Height of Wreck: 3 - 4m Admiralty Chart No: 2125
Hull Material: Wood Latitude:  
Type of Seabed: Silt Longitude:
Average Visibility: 10 - 15m Diving Experience: Novice
Picture available? no

Diving Information:

  • Lies in the middle of the Sound. Usually buoyed.
  • Hull fairly intact. Superstructure covered in sponges, anemones, soft corals etc.
  • Populated by wrasse, pollock & lobsters.
  • Has a resident Conger.
  • Valentia Diving Centres can supply boats, air etc.

Historical Information:

  • Started to take on water.
  • Crew taken off by another trawler.

Source Publications:
"Irish Wrecks Database"
by
 Roy Stokes & Liam Dowling
"A Fews Days on the Island"
by
 Gerry Connolly
SubSea Magazine Summer 2002
"Underwater Ireland Guide to Irish Dive Sites"
by
 Irish Underwater Council
CFT 1999 - ISBN: 0948283025

 

 

Other Sources:
Des Lavelle
-
 Lavelle's Diving Centre (1986)

 

Co. Kerry Wreck List "B"

Last update - 10-May-2006

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