Burdigala Wreck Dive - Kea, Greece - With Paragon Dive Group & BJL Diving скачать в хорошем качестве

Burdigala Wreck Dive - Kea, Greece - With Paragon Dive Group & BJL Diving

Burdigala Wreck Dive - Kea, Greece - With Paragon Dive Group & BJL Diving Here is a video put together from two dives on the Burdigala from September of 2024 with Paragon Dive Group and Keadivers. Divers in the video are Greg Melzak, James Riley, George Vandoros, and Ken Blakely. All of the footage was shot by Ben Lair. The video may be a little bouncy as it was shot from a full frame camera being balanced on a DPV with no image stabilization in the camera or the lens. If you want to do these dives join Paragon Dive Group & BJL Diving on one of our trips! www.bjldiving.com www.paragondivestore.com www.bjlimagery.com Below is the history of the Burdigala wreck as provided by our friends at Keadivers. _____ At a distance of less than two nautical miles from HMHS Britannic, there is the wreck of another large ship which has the same historical significance, as it also comes from the same period. In fact, this ship was sunk a week before Britannic in exactly the same way, hitting a mine in minefield number 32 which had been laid by the German imperial submarine U 73 on October, 1916. This is the wreck of the French ocean liner BURDIGALA (formerly the German KAISER FRIEDRICH) whose history begins in 1897 with its construction in Danzig (currently Gdansk), one of the most important ports of the then German Empire, and ends on November 14, 1916 with its sinking from a German mine northwest of Kea, not far from the port of Korissia The ship is lying on a sandy bottom, in an upright position. The two masts of the ship are broken and are lying on the starboard side of the wreck. The maximum depth of the wreck is 76 meters while the minimum is 57 meters. Name: KAISER FRIEDRICH - BURDIGALA Year of construction: 1897 Length: 183 meters Width: 19.4 meters Tonnage: 12,480 KOH Displacement: 20,100 tons Two five-cylinder reciprocating locomotives (diameters 109.22 cm, 162.56 cm, 233.68 cm, 2 x 236.22 cm) quadruple expansion Two 6.19 meter diameter triple propellers Shafts made of Krupp steel Rated power: 28,000 hp The ship's trial speed would have to be 22.5 knots for a period of six hours, and the guaranteed speed at least 21 knots, so that the duration of the transatlantic crossing would be exactly six days. During her maiden voyage from Danzig to Bremerhaven Kaiser Friedrich with great efforts reached an average speed of 20 knots but did not exceed them. Unfortunately the ship never made it to exceed the speed of 20 knots…… In October 1900 the Kaiser Friedrich left New York for Hamburg. After her return ship was returned to its builder F. Schichau, decommissioned and remained in the port of Hamburg for the next 12 years. Unfortunately, it failed to become competitive, due to low speed At 1912, she was purchased by the French shipping company Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique, based in Bordeaux, France. The ship was renamed S/S Burdigala, which is the ancient Latin name of the city of Bordeaux. In August 1914 the S/S Burdigala was ordered by the French government to serve the needs of the French army, WWI, had already started The French government used S/S Burdigala as an outfitted gunboat to transport military squads from Toulon to the Dardanelles and Thessaloniki until her sinking. The first archivally located entry, where the ship's name is mentioned, is dated 9 November 1914 when it loaded the 14th Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of Zouaves in the port of Toulon. From 1915 until its sinking, in November 1916, the ship carried out continuous troop transfers to the Dardanelles and Thessaloniki which was the base of the Entente forces in the Aegean. On November 13, 1916, the ship sailed empty from Thessaloniki, bound for Toulon, with the purpose of loading troops and war material. On November 14, 1916, at 10:45 a.m., and while the ship was about two nautical miles south-west of the tip of Agios Nikolaos of Kea, a loud explosion was heard on the starboard side of the midship, which was the cause of the inflow of water in the engine room area. S/S Burdigala's call increased resulting in its skipper ordering the ship to be abandoned. 15 minutes after this order, the S/S Burdigala sank to the northwest of Kea, where it is still at a depth of 76 meters…..