Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

$4 Mio search for Centaur Wreck begins

Brisbane, Australia (Global Adventures): The Australian government plans to spend $4 million to locate the A.H.S. Centaur, a hospital ship which was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine I-177 14 May 1943. The Scottish-built vessel was launched in 1924 as a combination passenger liner/freighter and operated a trade route between Western Australia and Singapore via Indonesia, [...]

Posted by Bernd on Friday, December 11, 2009 at 11:19 am
Filed under Diving, News · Tagged A.H.S. Centaur, Australian War Memorial, Blue Water Recoveries Limited, Bruce Kafer, David Mearns, Donald Dennis, Exploration, Guinness World Record, HMAS Sydney, Hospital ship, I-177, Japanese submarine, Moreton Island, Scuba diving, Shipwreck, Simon Mitchell, Submarine, Trevor Jackson, Wreck diving