Is Andrea Doria worth it?

[CAPTAIN SINBAD]

I heard the wreck has disintegrated quite a lot and the present condition of the wreck is more or a rubble field than a wreck. I was wondering if it would still present good penetration opportunities.

Has anyone been on it lately?

 

[mikeny9]

From everything I've heard: no.

 

[mdb]

From everything I've heard: no.

I think it was a very memorable dive in days gone by.

A majestic wreck.

Early divers on the wreck recovered the ship's bell, compass, first class china, etc. and, of course,
they experienced the huge wreck while U/W.

 

[Akimbo]

... Early divers on the wreck recovered the ship's bell, compass, first class china, etc. and, of course,
they experienced the huge wreck while U/W.

The early divers recovered the bronze statue of Admiral Andrea Doria in 1964. The really early divers were on the wreck within a few days of the sinking.

I was a latecomer in 1973.

 

[Wookie]

Penetration? No. Still interesting? Yes.

 

[tomfcrist]

As Frank is alluding to, just because it's not a cool penetration dive anymore doesn't mean it's not a cool wreck. It's still a behemoth, and there are still cool artifacts to be found.

 

[CAPTAIN SINBAD]

Does anyone have the map or layout of the wreck in most recent state?

 

[Akimbo]

Penetration? No. Still interesting? Yes.

Sure. We were the first to make a successful saturation dive on her. The Early Bird crew were the first to attempt a sat dive but got skunked by the weather.

We removed the double doors to the first class foyer, discovered that the safes were under tons of collapsed bulkheads and false overhead. You didn't need an engineering study to figure out that removing it would cost more than were in all the safes onboard. Oceaneering divers burned a larger hole in order to get all that debris out for Gimbel several gears later. See Setting the Hook: A Diver's Return to the Andrea Doria, Post #77

There were a lot of dives on her before us. Bruno Vailati and Al Giddings dove her in the 1960s a few years after the Top Cat crew. He did several expeditions for Italian TV.

 

[Akimbo]

Does anyone have the map or layout of the wreck in most recent state?

This is the most recent authoritative study I know of:
Submarine team explores Andrea Doria shipwreck, finds it to be ‘just a mess’

 

[Tassi Devil Diver]

This is the most recent authoritative study I know of:

It would be interesting to see a multi beam sonar image of the Doria referred to in the article