Wreck diving in Colombo, Sri Lanka with Island Scuba
27.1.-7.2.2016 Mika Tanninen & Tia Silvanto
Visited sites:
Barracuda Reef
Chief Dragon (Car Wreck)
Coal Ship
Medhufaru Wreck
Nilgiri (Tug Wreck)
Pecheur Breton (Cargo Wreck)
Thermophylae Sierra Wreck
Toilet Barge
Diving Taprobane East Wreck, Colombo, Sri Lanka
The wreck of an unknown barge near Taprobane East reef off Colombo. Schooling goatfish, stingrays and a resident napolean wrasse are the highlights of this small yet colorful wreck covered in soft coral. Located offshore, average visibility is around 25m with highs of around 40m on many days.
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Trouble in the morning. A mistake in the translation almost left us without diving today, but everything went ok with the help of the Pearl Divers that put us in a last minute dive.
Two shallow dives close to Pigeon Island. Note: diving closer than us to the Pigeon Island makes the dives even shallow. However, you have more chances to see turtles, sharks and snorkelers.
We finished the day by visiting the Koneswaram Temple in Trincomalee. This is on the top of a hill, inside a military base. The view is so amazing.
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Diving Medhufaru wreck, Colombo, Sri Lanka
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Video footage from a dive on the Medhufaru wreck on February 20th 2013. One of the newer wrecks in Colombo it is yet to be colonized by many corals but has already become home to thousands of fish. The wreck lies at a depth of 30m with the bridge reaching 15m, and is just 10 mins by boat from Island Scuba.
The Wallet Wreck with Island Scuba
Around 1.5 to 2 hours from our dive center this unknown wreck of what appears to be a barge sits at a depth of 40m. The wreck is small but covered in soft coral and teeming with small fish. Visibility is generally quite good here making it an ideal subject for wide-angle wreck photography.
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Diving Chief Dragon wreck, Colombo, Sri Lanka
The Chief Dragon is a massive car transport ship that sank in 1983. Parts of the cars are still visible on the decks although like much of the wreck are overgrown with hard and soft coral. One of the most colorful dives in Sri Lanka with a good selection of corals, fish and invertebrates. The feature of this dive are the resident schools of snappers and fusiliers. Tuna, wahoo, trevally and eagle rays are also regular visitors to this site. For wreck enthusiasts there is a lot to explore with penetration possible into some of the holds below decks
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Diving Bora Bora reef, Colombo, Sri Lanka
One of the newest dive sites in Colombo, Bora Bora is a photographers paradise with panoramic wide angle opportunities and macro critters. Like the exotic islands of the South Pacific, this is a smattering of rocky islands on a sandy plain. With each rock outcrop a marine wonderland teeming with life.
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Diving Colombo, Cargo Wreck 2013
Diving at Cargo Wreck. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 2013. With Island Scuba. Movie shot on GoPro and UK lights
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Traveller Megan McCormick heads beyond the southern tip of India, to two of the most beautiful tropical locations on earth: Sri Lanka and the Maldive Islands.
Megan on a tea plantationColombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, has been an important trading port and commercial centre since the 1870s. It here that Megan begins her trip, travelling around town on a bajajs and sampling some exotic foods.
From Colombo Megan sets our along the coast for Matara. On the way she sees toddy-tappers at work high in the coconut trees and stops off at Weligama, where the local industry is a peculiar type of fishing: stilt fishing. Megan wades out to the stilts embedded into the seabed and tries her hand with little success. Next day she reaches Matara and just outside the town is the temple of Wewurukannala, site of Sri Lanka’s largest statue of Buddha.
In Buttula Megan stays at a sanctuary called Yala Tissa. It’s situated in the midst of beautiful countryside where reforestation programmes are in progress. She then takes a bus to Arugam Bay, a fantastic place for hardcore surfers but also an area which has been caught in the crossfire of the civil war between the government and Tamil rebels. Megan sees the evidence of political turmoil first hand when she takes a tour of the bombed cinema.
From Arugam Bay Megan hitches a ride to Ratnapura, which means ‘City of Gems’. This is the town where miners come to sell their gems to the dealers the most abundant being pink andRelaxing on river ride in Maleblue sapphires and the occasional ruby. Megan goes down the nearby mine accompanied by a guide – it’s a terrifying experience but they do find some topaz to reward their efforts. Megan then hires a car to drive up into the hills to visit the tea plantations. Also in hill country is Pinjnewala, home of the famous elephant orphanage. The parents of the orphan elephants have been poached for their ivory and Megan hears some incredible stories about the backgrounds of the animals that live here.
A few miles up the road is Sigiriya, the site of an impressive fortress built in the fifth century by a king called Kadyapa. Kasyapa has seized the throne by plastering his own father into the wall alive, and when his brother fled to raise and army against him he built this impenetrable fortress on top of a massive rock. Some beautiful frescos depicting Kasyapa’s favourite concubines remain from that time.
Megan then visits Kandy at the time of Esala Perahera, the country’s biggest festival where hundreds of elephants are dressed up in honour of Buddha’s ‘tooth relic’ and paraded around the city for ten nights. Every night more and more dancers and elephants join the procession and it’s a spectacular sight as the ‘Maligawa Tusker’, the chief elephant, carries a replica of the tooth around the city for three or four hours.
The final leg of Megan’s journey takes her to Male, the capital of the Maldive Islands. She finds a cheap package which includes accommodation and a safari boat, an ideal way to see the islands and do some spectacular diving. There’s many different varieties of fish, including barracuda, fusiliers groupa and trumpet fish, as well as soft corals and lagodias. Megan ends her extraordinary journey on Dhangethi, a perfect island of tropical beauty.
Diving Sri Lanka - Nilaveli, Trincomalee with Scuba Instructor #marcusfeigenbaum
Sri Lanka Scuba Diving, Nilavelli, Trincomalee
Since I never ever used a Cam or edited any video, it was time to Do IT! It took 10 minutes to download an Editor-Software and 1hour to play around.... ;-) Result: About 60 Cam- Clips, merged and edited to my 1st ever Video. Recorded and edited north-east of Sri Lanka, more to come.
Scuba Diving Colombo - Chief Dragon and Pecheur Breton wrecks | SRI LANKA 2019
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Chief Dragon wreck also know as the Car Wreck - max depth 34.5m, the ship is 112.8 meters long, 22.0 meters wide. Sunk on the 18th of March 1983 and later parts blown off by the Sri Lankan Navy to reduce the hazard to ships
Pecheur Breton also know as the Cargo Wreck - max depth 33m, sank off Colombo on 1st of July 1994 after springing a leak enroute to the Seychelles with a cargo of scrap
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Cargo wreck, Medhufaru, Thermophylae Sierra, Nilgiri (Tug Wreck)
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Scuba Diving in Colombo Sri Lanka
Not sure what to expect off the capital city of Sri Lanka. How about some world class wrecks and fish filled reefs.
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wreck diving at Medhufharu, near Colombo, Sri Lanka
diving with some fish around a wreck at Medhufharu, near Colombo, Sri Lanka
Pigeon Island National Park Sri Lanka
Pigeon Island National Park is one of the two marine national parks of Sri Lanka. The national park is situated 1 km off the coast of Nilaveli, a coastal town in Eastern Province, encompassing a total area of 471.429 hectares. The island's name derives from the rock pigeon which has colonized it. The national park contains some of the best remaining coral reefs of Sri Lanka. Pigeon Island was designated as a sanctuary in 1963. In 2003 it was redesignated as a national park. This national park is the 17th in Sri Lanka. The island was used as a shooting range during the colonial era.
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Diving in pigeon Island, trincomalee. Sri Lanka
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