SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
December 15:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1880: John N Gamewell, this 3-masted sailing schooner caught alight and burned down to the waterline and then drifted ashore at Port Elizabeth in Algoa Bay in the Eastern Cape.
1972: Rockeater, this motor-powered mineral-sampling dredger was scuttled by the South African Navy to form an artifice reef, in Smitswinkel Bay on the Cape Peninsula in the Western Cape.
The Rockeater (1972), date and location unknown
It was the first of five wrecks to be scuttled in Smitswinkel Bay for this purpose.
A map of the Smitswinkel Bay wreck route
The wreck can be dived with the deepest section being about 36m on the sand.
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