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Wreck diving expedition | Dec 14th | WW2 Schooner & New Marks

After serving us well throughout summer, it’s time to send our big boat in for it’s annual maintenance. That means driving the dive boat across to Chumphon on the mainland where it can be lifted from the water, and required work can be completed.

Since we’re already paying for the diesel, we may as well make use of the journey and check out a few more potential wrecks to the north & North east of Koh Tao!

So tomorrow our first dive will be to revisit  the WW2 Schooner wreck, last dived when we located it in August, then continue to investigate four more fishermans marks during the journey across to Chumphon.

The most interesting is a mark which matches closely with a wreck position on one of our old shipping charts. The wreck must be a decent size to pose a potential problem [and thus be of interest] for shipping. We’ve never managed to locate this wreck - hopefully this new fisherman’s mark will help us find it. The chart was produced in 1986 - the survey data which was used to create this chart was probably collected well before that date, so we have our fingers crossed that its an old wreck, rather than a recent fishing boat. We’ll see!

The other marks are isolated but come from a reliable source, which has given us several other wrecks over the last 12 months - we’ll just have to see what turns up.

Dive expedition report will follow. . . .