Scuba Diving A CRUISE SHIP The Cristobal Colon In Bermuda - Ep 98
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2022
- Welcome to episode 98!
Scuba diving a cruise ship the Cristobal Colon in Bermuda!
In this episode, Mark and Holly take their groups of divers to explore Bermuda's largest shipwreck, The Cristobal Colon, a former cruise ship!
Don't miss this episode, so jump in with us to explore the largest shipwreck in Bermuda!
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Cristobal Colon
History:
Built in 1923 by the Sociedad Espanola de Construccion Naval for the Transatlantic Spanish Line, this luxury cruise liner is the largest of Bermuda’s shipwrecks. The massive Spanish vessel, the Cristobal Colon, weighed over 10,000 tons, had three decks and was nearly 500 feet long with a 61-foot beam. She was one of the most luxurious cruise ships of her time. She mainly operated between New York and Central America, but at the time of her sinking, the Cristobal Colon and 160 exclusively male crew (with no passengers) were traveling from Cardiff, Wales to Vera Cruz, Mexico (reportedly to collect arms for the Royalists in the Spanish Civil War). On October 25, 1936, while steaming ahead at 15 knots, Captain Crescencia Navarro Delgado mistook an offshore communication tower for the Gibbs Hill Lighthouse (which had not been working while being repaired starting on October 10). The ship crashed into a coral reef just east of North Rock, eight miles north of Bermuda. When all attempts failed to pull the massive liner off the reef, she was salvaged, with furnishings, paintings and fittings brought ashore and sold at auction. There was no loss of life.
Every night locals would take their boats to the wreck and return with bags full of loot. Literally hundreds of Bermudians took part in the piracy; yet only 13 were ever caught. One particularly funny story tells of a man brought to court accused of stealing a radio from the Cristobal to which the would be thief replied “Why would I steal a radio from a Spanish ship, I can’t speak Spanish”. By 1939 the ship had broken in two and there were further salvage operations to retrieve metal parts, including the propellers. British and American forces eventually sank the ship’s empty shell by using it as a practice-bombing target during World War II.
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Wow wow wow! What a great dive!
It is an awesome dive
Wow! A massive wreck in cyrstal clear water. What a nice place to dive. 👍
It huge and awesome 🤙🇧🇲
Another great dive, so clear. I am pining at the moment, the here is so dirty from flood run-off, maybe next week.
Cheers and thanks for sharing
Brad
Thank you Brad 😊
Hopefully weather getting better for you now
Need to add that to the bucket list 👍
Thank you Brian and welcome back
This is an awesome wreck dive 🤙 thanks for sharing. Thats awesome people have the porthole from the wreck in there home
Even chairs and tables too 😂
Awesome video and great dive!
It an awesome dive to do and explore
South Carolina may be chilly - but wow - love the blue sky and the lake. Gorgeous!
It was freezing 😂 and Tom had us drain that lake
@@BlueHorizonDiving Drain a lake??!!! How on earth do you drain a lake?
It an artificial lake which had a control valve in the middle. We had to kayak out to it and turn it to drain setting. It floods into another bigger lake over the dyke.
It was due to be dredged or something then refilled.
@@BlueHorizonDiving Wow - I"ve never heard of a lake which is basically a huge bath 🤣 I wonder if the fish go down the plug hole and end up in the bigger lake as well!!
I think they do and sadly some were getting trapped in draining lake 😞
Great viz that day too! Been a bit murky lately. Hope you guys are well.
Thanks Dricks! Yeah we having fun
Interesting to see parts of a wreck you might not normally see if it hadn’t been blown about like that. Great video guys!
It a cool wreck and would of been awesome to have dived it when it wasn’t used as target practice.
Take a zookeeper and spear so you can kill those lion fish. There would be many more fish without those things eating them all.
True but normally when we are guiding we couldnt carry zookeepers only spears.
BTW - there is another ship wreck with the same name - it's a great dive - some items are missing but still not a wreck to miss - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_cruiser_Crist%C3%B3bal_Col%C3%B3n
That is pretty cool. Thank you