Kassamba: Tech Diving
 General Info :
Type of Vessel: Merchant Ship Cargo Freighter (138m in length) Type of Cargo Declared: wine & cloth Nationality:Angola Date of the Incident: 1985, 26th of March Crew: 31 men, all rescued. Distance: 11 nautical miles _______________________________________________ * Note: TDI standards state a max depth of -55msw for Extended Range Divers. see more details here _______________________________________________ Also on this page, you can access historical data of this large freighter plus photos and videos of past Expeditions. From surface to underwater images, you can have a good preview of how it is. Armando Ribeiro, as well as José Marques ( CCR Expedition Team) have shared also their work from previous dives. Note : on your right you can see the amount of ghost nets that prevail in the wreck. | TECHNICAL DIVERS ONLY    J. Marques (AMP) , preparing it´s camera: check the video on the bottom of the page.  Video on your left: InSilence Expedition Team video recording when they left a plate with their names on the Wreck. Acknowledgements to Armando Ribeiro for sharing his work. |
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Historical Facts:
This huge freighter was steaming towards home, "Namibe", Angola. At about 4.5 nautical miles from it´s last port (Leixões (Porto, Portugal) it suffered a rupture of one of its ballast tanks forcing the ship to lean 25º Portside; in a chain reation, containers started to slide over and off the cargo ship. As a result of a pierced hull, the vessel had its fate set.
Several rescue crews were sent either from Leixões and Vila do Conde; this operation involved 2 towboats, a rescue vessel, fishing vessel as backup as well as Navy frigate.
Altered Sea conditions unabled rescuers from doing more than rescuing it´s crew of 31 men and a dog;
to avoid an ecological disaster it was towed into deep waters with the support of the Portuguese Navy having been left to sink at 12 miles offshore.
Only 1 crew member was in need of hospital care while most of the others were in shock but clear from physical danger.
It now rests leaning portside, heading northwest. Type of substrate: sand.
Source of Info: J. Marques, AMP.
(the Diver who has done the big "K" way past 30 times, with EAN 21: J. Bennett´s School)
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Historical Facts:
This huge freighter was steaming towards home, "Namibe", Angola. At about 4.5 nautical miles from it´s last port (Leixões (Porto, Portugal) it suffered a rupture of one of its ballast tanks forcing the ship to lean 25º Portside; in a chain reation, containers started to slide over and off the cargo ship. As a result of a pierced hull, the vessel had its fate set.
Several rescue crews were sent either from Leixões and Vila do Conde; this operation involved 2 towboats, a rescue vessel, fishing vessel as backup as well as Navy frigate.
Altered Sea conditions unabled rescuers from doing more than rescuing it´s crew of 31 men and a dog;
to avoid an ecological disaster it was towed into deep waters with the support of the Portuguese Navy having been left to sink at 12 miles offshore.
Only 1 crew member was in need of hospital care while most of the others were in shock but clear from physical danger.
It now rests leaning portside, heading northwest. Type of substrate: sand.
Source of Info: J. Marques, AMP.
(the Diver who has done the big "K" way past 30 times, with EAN 21: J. Bennett´s School)
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This is a set of images, from Surface work to deco stops, when i still had my Sea&Sea Camera. (Backup Diver stop at -40 msw) Remixed with the Underwater footage from J. Marques - OPorto Diving Academy-.(AMP) Hint: check out the digits dropping on his computer The next videos are a Remix of both mine and JM recordings from dives on this location, as well as another visited wreck to be described later on. J. Marques original videos are available on his youtube channel, among others of interest. |
