Shipwrecks

The Clan Monroe was a British turret steamer and sister ship to the SS Clan Stuart, which was wrecked on the other side of the Cape Peninsula at Simon's Town, only 11km away as the crow flies. This is all the more remarkable as there were only about 6 ships of this type built. These areas are situated along the South African Coast and are accessible to the public and are known dive locations to the locals from in and [...]

The dive site SAS Bloemfontein is a deep recent wreck in the central part of False Bay, near Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. HMSAS Bloemfontein was an Algerine-class minesweeper built for the Royal Navy in Canada during World War II. The ship was originally named HMS Rosamund (pennant number: J439) and spent several years clearing minefields in Europe after she was completed in 1945 before she was placed in reserve. Rosamund was purchased by South [...]

These areas are situated along the South African Coast and are accessible to the public and are known dive locations to the locals from in and around the area, please respect their local fauna and flora, remember limit your catch and don’t catch your limit.

The bow of the wreck lies close inshore behind a shallow reef, The wreckage is mostly mangled hull plating and frames, but a few portholes and other items of interest have been seen There is a large cast iron mooring bollard on one of the fragments. The wreckage is on a shallow section of sandstone reef, and is mostly encrusted with rust and crustose coralline algae, and overgrown by kelp and smaller seaweeds, as are the rocks, and in some [...]

The dive site SS Bia is a historical wreck on an inshore rocky reef in the South Peninsula area on the Atlantic Seaboard of the Cape Peninsula, near Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. These areas are situated along the South African Coast and are accessible to the public and are known dive locations to the locals from in and around the area, please respect their local fauna and flora, remember limit your catch and don’t [...]

The wreck lies in shallow water (about 3.5 m) The area is fine sand with some low sandstone reef to the South. The wood structure of the wreck has become very overgrown over the years and is not easily recognisable over large areas The wreck lies approximately parallel to the shoreline. The centreline of the debris field is nearly North/South True, from S34°11.012’ E018°25.558’ to S34°10.985’ E018°25.561’, It is about 50 m long, 8 m wide and it extends over an area of [...]

The dive site RMS Athens is an inshore historical wreck in the Green Point area on the Atlantic seaboard of the Cape Peninsula in Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. This site is not in a Marine Protected Area. A permit is not required. These areas are situated along the South African Coast and are accessible to the public and are known dive locations to the locals from in and around the area, please respect their [...]