Wreck Diving

Yesterday we put our PADI training into action with a trip to the SS Yongala, a wreck of a sunken steam ship and one of the top ten dive sites in the world. She sank during a cyclone in 1911, killing 122 people an a race horse called Moonshine (incidentally the only body to be recovered) and she's still in pretty good shape for a wreck that's nearly a century old. We spied turtles, shovel nose sharks (really a type of ray) and huuuuuge Queensland groupers, plus the ships' toilets! It was an incredible experience and humbling at the same time. We're now qualified to 'deep dive' up to 30 meters which is good since most wrecks are fairly deep...apparently there's a fleet of WW2 aircraft at Bikini Atoll that's worth checking out now the radiation levels are almost back to normal...