【潛水日誌】68-汶萊Aussie Wreck @ 蘇阿姨美食旅遊大小事

No.68 船潛

Aussie Wreck

配重5KG

黑黑，蘇阿姨終於千辛萬苦的來到了汶萊。現在是半夜三點想到有一大堆潛水日誌和文章就暈了*0* 邊吃消夜邊發個牢騷慢慢把潛水日誌給打出來唄~~科科!!

從潛店坐車到港口，今天天氣很好^^

走到碼頭後要爬這個好直的樓梯下船呀！！抖(((ﾟДﾟ;)))

蘇阿姨買了新的BCD配重先拿5公斤來試水溫

Situated at 05 , o8.283' N, 115 ,05.403' E the "Australian Wreck" lies on her port side at a 50 degree angle slowly collapsing into the sand at 33m. Some uncertainty surrounded the origins of this wreck. It gets its name from the fact that it was thought to be an Australian ship or that it was Japanese and had been sunk by an Australian torpedo bomber. Both theories have been now proven to be incorrect. The ship was originally a Dutch passenger/cargo steamer called the S.S. De Clerk, built in 1909 by Nederlandsche Scheepsbow, Maasschappij. This 300ft long, 40ft wide, 2071 Ton ship, was scuttled by the Dutch Navy in 1942 at Tanjong Priok, West Malaysia, to prevent her use by invading Japanese forces. The Japanese subsequently re-floated the ship and renamed it the Imbari Maru (some say the Imaji Maru). Unfortunately, during a sailing between Singapore and Manila, whilst transporting 1210 personnel to the Philippines, she struck a Japanese mine at 09.45hrs on 16th September 1944, with the loss of 339 lives, mainly all prisoners being transported as slave labour and were chained up in the cargo holds! The wreck is complete, but collapsing in on itself. The teak decking and wooden wheel house have rotten away giving easy access into the cargo holds which contain various war goods and china crockery and bottles, plus some human remains of those who perished on her, and therefore should be treated with the respect of a war grave (but generally isn’t!!). Care should be taken inside the wreck as the bulkheads and shell plating are very flimsy in parts. Most of the ship’s portholes have already rotted out and disappeared into the silt that has collected in the holds (apart from those which have been plundered!!). Visibility on the wreck is generally poor, adding to the wreck’s eerie feel. There is not a great deal of coral growth on the wreck, but it still attracts an abundance of bait fish and various pelagics, such as the 2m Stingray that took Matt by surprise as it glided out of the gloom on one of our dives. The poor visibility does not really mar this dive, it just adds to the overall feel of it, making it another excellent wreck dive off Brunei.

這是一艘荷蘭貨輪名為S.S. De Clerk由Nederlandsche Scheepsbow，Maasschappij於1909年建造。這艘300英尺長，40英尺寬，2071噸的船，於1942年在荷蘭海軍在馬來西亞西部的Tanjong Priok被破壞，以防止入侵日本軍隊。日本人隨後重新浮動了船，並重命名為Imbari Maru（有人說Imaji Maru）。不幸的是，在新加坡和馬尼拉之間的航行期間，在運送1210人到菲律賓時，她在1944年9月16日09時45分攻擊了一個日本礦井，造成339人死亡，主要是所有囚犯被作為奴隸勞動運輸，在貨艙殘骸是完整的，但柚木板和木製車輪房子腐爛了，容易進入裝有各種戰爭物品和瓷器和瓶子的貨艙，加上一些人的遺骸在她身上，因此應該被對待戰爭的尊重墳墓（但一般不是!!）。在殘骸內應當小心，因為艙壁和外板在部件上非常脆弱。大部分船的舷窗已經腐爛，並消失在收集在船艙內的淤泥（除了被掠奪的淤泥外）。對殘骸的可見性通常很差，增加了殘骸的怪異感覺。在殘骸上沒有大量的珊瑚生長，但它仍然吸引了大量的餌魚和各種中上層，例如2米黃貂魚。