Unknown Wreck

[BigE]

I can recall being at a party with the Breaka Girls ....... LOL

TOL :: if you can remember it , it couldn't have been much of a PARTY and in 1896 they were the YE OLD BREAKA LASSES

BigE

[snasman]

There is still a heap of wrecks in the Brissy river a large majority of them however have been covered up due to the reclaimation, to build the wharfs

[Stuart]

Found a naval ship quite a few years ago.....well half of it anyway. The bow section is their but not the stern, havent found that yet. A mate dived it a hand full of years ago with some deep diving gear, he said their was stacks of ammo and guns and mines lying all over the place. The fsh life was incrediable to say the least as I can back that up by what I have caught there over the years as well as seen on the sounder. You would be surprised as to what is around out there.

Stu

[Mike Delisser]

From the Courier Mail

MORETON Bay has been the scene of many sea dramas but none as nail-biting as the capsize of the Danish dredge Kaptajn Nielsen in 1964.
The dredge was brought to Queensland to pump sand from the Bay for a new chemical-processing site.

It was working off Tangalooma, on Moreton Island, on September 18 when it suddenly began to list just before midnight.

Within seconds, the vessel was upside down in the inky black waters, nine men were dead and 15 more were trapped inside. What followed was the stuff of Hollywood disaster movies.

Three men managed to scramble to safety, one swimming for almost three hours to Tangalooma where he raised the alarm.

The other two crawled to the surface through a huge tube used to suck up sand.

But Captain Karl Flindt was left floating in debris in his cabin, while nine crew were crammed into a cabin in water 1.5m deep. Another seaman found himself in a tiny air pocket in the bow.

As the Walkley Award-winning image by then Courier-Mail photographer Jim Fenwick shows, rescuers crawled over the upturned hull, banging hammers on it and even using stethoscopes to listen for sounds from those trapped below.

It was decided holes could not be cut in the hull because of the risk that the sudden in-rush of air might flip the dredge over and drown the survivors.

Instead, two divers brought the men out one by one, giving them a brief scuba lesson before helping them to the surface. The hatches leading into the two cabins were so narrow the divers had to take off their tanks and push them through. They made the perilous journey more than 40 times each.

By then the crew had almost given up hope.

"I am a dead man. I do not pray because I have no hope of rescue," Captain Flint recalled thinking.

Police diver constable Ivan Adams and professional diver Joe Engwirda received the George Medal, the highest award for bravery in the Commonwealth.

[yalta]

Found a naval ship quite a few years ago.....well half of it anyway. The bow section is their but not the stern, havent found that yet. A mate dived it a hand full of years ago with some deep diving gear, he said their was stacks of ammo and guns and mines lying all over the place. The fsh life was incrediable to say the least as I can back that up by what I have caught there over the years as well as seen on the sounder. You would be surprised as to what is around out there.

Stu

is this over moreten is way mate i no of one there with this gear laying around it
some of the gun's are still in crates wrapped up in grease...

[Spectre]

Yalta/Stu

Presume u guys are now talking offshore Moreton....??

No doubt lotsa weird stuff out there ....left over from WW2.

Cheers
Phil

[webby]

There are certainly some surprises out there, especially around the MM, and a little further south.
Plenty of stuff dumped after the war, which over the years, has encrusted up and now supports a variety of life.
Most are one boat fishing areas.
regards

[Lucky_Phill]

And it has to be a " Red " boat...

So all you guys with white boats stay away as the fish will recognize you and avoid ya baits.

Phill.
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[plastic_paul]

seems like a pretty conclusive list and a great read. does anyone have a list for the gold coast, i know theres the scottish prince, and an old "houseboat?" in the seaway. anyone know of any others?

[IRMC000]

I know "[retired] Police diver constable Ivan Adams" so guess who I'm going to follow up with some questions on where wrecks are?

[IRMC000]

Fishing these wrecks with "mines" - what happens when someone snags the mine with some heavy line - has this ever happened?

[udlman]

Fishing these wrecks with "mines" - what happens when someone snags the mine with some heavy line - has this ever happened?

Probably never find out because they would be on the bottom as well..