Japanese Wreck

Dove this today! 

The Wairterang wreck is located close to the Ankermi Resort. This is a Japanese ship-wreck from the World War II, we don?t know exactly if it was a freighter or a controller. Wreck specialists have been diving with us checking out the wreck in order to find a registration number. Unfortunately the ship lies twisted, so the number might be buried in the sand, and the specialists said, that the ship is not registered. The oldest men of the village have told us the story that the crew was taking water from the Wairterang spring near by and then the ship was bombed from air and sunk.

The 60m long, 15m wide wreck lies on its side from 12m?32m depth, it is twisted and iron spruces and doors are clearly visible, some overgrown with hard and soft corals. Schools of trevallys, mackerels, groupers and batfish swim around its surface and the wreck is a perfect hiding place for all kinds of marine animals: mantis shrimps, octopus, scorpionfish, lionfish, twin-spot lionfish, different nudibranchs, pipefishes, morays, ghostpipefishes, and a large variety of shrimps.

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