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Scuba Diving in Andaman offers you to experience wreck diving on a few kilometers of Havelock Island. Another golden opportunity after becoming an open water diver is you can explore and reinvent the hidden treasures sunken underneath the ocean due to either natural calamities or a global war. All you have to do is be a specialized wreck diver so that you can gain all the knowledge and skills required to penetrate as well as explore a shipwreck safely. There are certain steps and standard scuba diving procedures to be practiced so that we can conduct a safe and uninterrupted scuba diving experience over and inside the shipwreck.

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Wreck Diving in Andaman

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Mankind has been through several world wars as well as enormous natural disasters all over the world, which resulted in many ships and fighter jets becoming wrecks underwater. The wreck diving specialty course prepares you to dive any kind of wreck underwater as well as lets you discover the treasures like experience below.

We do have many shipwrecks in the Andaman islands since the Andamans were British territory and actively involved in the second world war. But we could explore only 2 shipwrecks so far due to the Tribal restricted areas and the recreational diving depth limit. These two wrecks are MV Mars and SS. Inchket.

The day you start your wreck diving specialty program, Your instructor presents not only a descriptive but also an interactive briefing session about how to use a compass, how to plan and calculate the risk factors, the importance of having a diving knife, how to maintain decent buoyancy while disentangling yourself, how your patience impacts, and steps to be followed to perform safe wreck diving. Check Scuba Diving Course Price for professional wreck diving in Andaman.

Confined water session for Wreck diving specialty We do stress on practicing alternate regulator breathing ascent, scuba equipment removal replacing underwater during the confined water session. No mask swimming and using the diving knife is highly recommended skills to be practiced.

Your instructor does assist you to finetune your buoyancy so that you can stop yourself from touching or crawling over the sharp surface of the shipwreck. There are a few steps to follow while penetrating a shipwreck and you need to practice those skills repetitively so that you can master them during the confined water session.

Techniques to be followed for safe and enjoyable wreck dives Whenever and wherever you dive on a shipwreck make sure you dive with a local dive instructor, who has complete knowledge about that shipwreck and you should also inform the local authorities before you dive ( if needed ).

A proper plan before the dive and dive as per the plan is strictly advised. Includes entry and exit method, penetration method, overhead obstacles, the topography of the bottom, position and size of the wreck as well as the marine animals living there.

Always start from the shallowest point, maintain direction using a compass and natural objects, use diving reels in case you need to penetrate, and use a buddy system all the time.

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Wreck Diving in Havelock

Maintaining decent buoyancy is the key to achieve safe and enjoyable wreck diving because most of the shipwrecks are home to many stonefish, scorpionfish along with other marine animals. These two fish not only sting you but also leave strong pain behind upon stabbing or touching them and that pain is not enjoyable. Wreck diving also offers Deep sea diving in Andaman sea.

There are two wreck diving sites in the Andaman islands legally and they are. 1. MV. Mars, 2. SS. Inchket. Both these sites are well accessible from Havelock Island.

1. MV. Mars This wreck was a wooden built cargo ship and used to transport cargo between islands during the early habitations of these islands. There was a very strong cyclone that caused the ship to become a wreck and it sank just one and a half kilometers away from Havelock ferry station.

Nowadays this sunken ship has been home to a large variety of marine animals and soft corals, which is worth visiting during your wreck diving specialty course. You can see a school of rabbitfish, angelfish, long thread bannerfish, stingrays, and many more during your dive there.

2. SS. Inchket In between the south and middle Andaman islands, The wreck of SS. Inchket is calmly laying with hiding an unknown history of how it became wreak. It was a 120 meters long iron made cargo ship and used to bring cargo from the mainland during the 19s. The

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shipwreck is still in good shape and loaded with coals and metals. The top wheelhouse is at 5 meters of seawater and the hull of the ship is at 19 meters.

Wreck Diving

A huge variety of colorful soft corals almost occupied most of the surface of the wreck.

Large schools of big snappers, barramundi, and many stonefish along with scorpionfish are often seen there. This site is 26 kilometers away from Havelock and it takes a little more or less one hour to reach there for Scuba diving in Havelock.

Wreck diving specialty costs 12000 INR and can be completed within 2 days.

Prerequisite:- You need to be a certified open water diver and have at least 6 log dives.

Currently mentally and physically fit to dive.

Inclusion:- Complete confined session required by the course. 2 open water dives of at least 45 minutes each over and around shipwrecks. SSI wreck diving specialty certificate.

Pick and drop. Snacks and mineral water with fresh towels.

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