Diving a WW2 wreck

Trip Start Mar 20, 2011
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Trip End May 13, 2011


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Thursday, May 5, 2011

Thursday we headed north towards Tulamben, an even smaller village on the coast. On the way it started raining heavily, so we took shelter at a small restaurant in Amed and had lunch - and were glad we had bought rain ponchos in Sulawesi! It was still pouring down when we got to Tulamben. We spotted a sign that included the words: “backpacker”, “diving” and “budget” and decided to stay there - an hour after we had arrived we were on our way out for an afternoon dive! US$ 25 per dive including all equipment, so that’s relatively cheap. We had a strange dive at "coral garden" that afternoon; we walked into the water from the rocky shore; the coral was sparse, but there were so many creatures we hadn’t seen before. The fact that it had rained so much meant that you could see the layers of fresh- and saltwater. Because the freshwater on top was muddy, it blocked out the light and it was almost like a night dive... 

The next morning we had a dive at the wreck of the USS Liberty, a 120 m long American warship that was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1942. The ship was towed by a Dutch destroyer and was beached in Tulamben, and when Mount Agung erupted in 1963 the ship was pushed into the water and sits on a sloping black sand shelf. There wasn’t much cool coral, but the fish life was really diverse and we swam through the wreck at various places, which was fun. 
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