Photos by Ben Crossett
After a wet April and too many dives cancelled due to bad weather it was great to see a bunch of SSAC members out on Baz’s boat especially as wave rider had packed up the day before with the last reading at 5m! As we rounded the heads in the autumn sunshine, the tail end of the swell was still there, but with a long period so reasonable drivable, although did make for an ‘entertaining’ exit, and a bit of fish feeding.
We ended up on the SS Myola, a collier which sank in 1919, and now lies at a depth of 50m. The wreck has largely broken up, but the steam engine sits on its port side with the condenser sprawled nearby, just up from the prop and stern post. The large boilers are still intact although are known to move around during heavy seas. A classic Sydney ‘boiler dive’.
Photos by Ben Crossett
Taken by Ben Crossett on 23 May 2011
