World Record Dive to a Ship Wreck, May 17th

[Diver Dennis]

On May 17th Rob LaLumiere will be attempting to break his own World Record dive of 193M on the USS Cooper in 2005, by diving on the Japanese destroyer Shimakaze in Ormoc Bay here in the Philippines. She lies in 250M of water and will be the deepest dive ever made by a scuba diver to sunken wreckage. Rob will be placing a memorial plaque on her decks to honor those who went down with the ship while following their orders from the Emperor.

The event will encompass a week of training dives before the record attempt and also one day will be set aside for the families and friends of the lost navy men to cast a wreath onto the water over the site allowing them to honor their service.

At least two team members are contributors to ScubaBoard.



Rob Lalumiere Dive To Shimakaze

I'll be joining the team to do the underwater photography.

 

[Blackwood]

Very cool. I look forward to the coverage!

 

[BDSC]

Good luck to Rob and the entire team! Get some great video/photography and hopefully you will be able to share it with us.

BDSC

 

[Deefstes]

This is very exciting, I'll be sure to check back and see how it went. I'm confused though. Which world record is this that he's attempting to break. I was under the impression that the world record for SCUBA diving is held by Nuno Gomes who went down to 318.25m in the Red Sea in June 2005 while the wreck diving record is held by Leigh Cunningham and Mark Andrews who visited the MV JOLANDA in December 2005, also in the Red Sea.

Is there a published list of SCUBA world records and perhaps a chronology of when they were broken somewhere?

 

[Blackwood]

Which world record is this that he's attempting to break.

Deepest wreck dive.

Shimakaze sits about 45m deeper than Jolanda.

Is there a published list of SCUBA world records and perhaps a chronology of when they were broken somewhere?

Scuba Diving World Records

 

[Jimmer]

I'm confused though. Which world record is this that he's attempting to break.

Well I was under the impression that this was to break his own record for deepest wreck dive.

 

[Rhone Man]

It is a slightly mind boggling scale - 45m deeper than the old record. 45m from the surface is a pretty deep dive for non-Tec divers.

 

[ianr33]

What constitutes a wreck dive though?

Seeing it? Touching it? Penetrating it?

 

[MarkUK]

Well I was under the impression that this was to break his own record for deepest wreck dive.

No, as Deefstes said, he is trying to break Mark Andrews and Leigh Cunningham's world deep wreck dive (they descended to 205m on the Yolanda in the Red Sea, going deeper than his previous record).

And currently, Pascal Bernabe has the world record depth of 330m on open circuit scuba. He set this record three weeks after South African Numo Gomes' 318m dive.

Mark

 

[Blackwood]

What constitutes a wreck dive though?

Seeing it? Touching it? Penetrating it?

In this case, I would imagine seeing/touching it. I doubt there will be enough bottom time to penetrate even if the wreck is intact enough to support it.