ancient mariner & United Caribbean...

[Dan Dan the Scuba Man]

Has anybody dove these sites? if so any comments reviews?


Does Ancient Mariner have a moring bouy?

thanks
Dan

 

[Doc]

http://www.pbcrrt.org/Physical/PhysW_Ancient.shtml
http://www.americandivecenter.com/wrecks/index.html
http://www.diveftlauderdale.com/dive_sites/ancient_mariner.htm
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http://www.pbcrrt.org/Physical/PhysW_UnitedCaribbean.shtml
http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/553536252IXbpoO
http://www.divespots.com/scuba/spotID-165/view.divespot

 

[Dan Dan the Scuba Man]

we decided to dive the united caribbean... any word on this wreck?

 

[DennisW]

I've dived it several times. It is a nice dive. About 70 FSW to the sand if I remember. The ship is broken up since the hurricanes over the past few years. When I first dived the wreck it was intact. The Sea Emporer is a barge just off of the United Caribbean. There is a bunch of rocks and cement culverts next to the Sea Emporer where you will see a lot of sea life, there is at least one large Jewfish there and a big Green Moray that likes to visit divers. The Southern Sting Rays like to buz you while you are on the wreck. I have some pics of a nice Anemone on the Sea Emporer. You can do both wrecks on one tank. Fun dive.

http://www.pbcrrt.org/Physical/PhysW_UnitedCaribbean.shtml

 

[trigfunctions]

They are both good. I've got a video of a stingray on the Sea Emperor (that's the barge that is upside down, right?) in my gallery:
http://www.scubaboard.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/56327/cat/500/ppuser/58541

We saw the Goliath Grouper and Green Moray there too.

 

[Divernate5150]

I dove the UC seven years ago. I was on it 2 months after it was sunk. I have not been able to find much information on it since. You said that it was broken up, what is the site like now? Do you have any pictures?

 

[DennisW]

The back (Crew quarters and Wheel House) of the United Caribbean is broken away from the front hold section. I believe the back section is on it's side. The front of the boat is mostly broken up and laying in the sand. I have some pics somewhere, but if I remember they aren't very good and the viz was not great on that dive.

 

[Dan Dan the Scuba Man]

well, the dive was kinda awequard, my first drift dive... the current was rippen through there.... we dropped anchor maybe 40 ft north of the wreck (current was headed south) problem was, the boat dragged anchor and when we dropped down, we missed it... but the second dive team that went down got a look at the wreck and said it looked cool, we want to do the dive again when the current slows down a bit, and we have a bigger anchor... lol

all in all, fun drift dive. lots of coral near the emperor...

 

[DennisW]

Sorry you missed the wreck, but you get to try it again. That's always good.