Wreck
MS Mikhail Lermontov rests where she sank, lying on her starboard side at depths ranging about 38 m. It is popular with Scuba divers and the site is served by local dive shops in Picton and Kaikoura. It is also one of the biggest diveable ship wrecks in the world. The dives range from easy 12 to 18m dives around the wreck, to penetration and decompression dives to depths of 36m. It is possible to swim inside the ship, although care must be taken and guides familiar with the wreck are highly recommended. Three divers are known to have died while exploring the ship, including one diver whose body is still possibly trapped inside.
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Famous quotes containing the word wreck:
“Such as the wreck of the Hesperus,
In the midnight and the snow!
Christ save us all from a death like this,
On the reef of Norman’s Woe!”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)
“And such the trust that still were mine,
Though stormy winds swept o’er the brine,
Or though the tempest’s fiery breath
Roused me from sleep to wreck and death.
In ocean cave, still safe with Thee
The germ of immortality!
And calm and peaceful shall I sleep,
Rocked in the cradle of the deep.”
—Emma Hart Willard (1787–1870)
“Perchance the time will come when we shall not be content to go back and forth upon a raft to some huge Homeric or Shakespearean Indiaman that lies upon the reef, but build a bark out of that wreck and others that are buried in the sands of this desolate island, and such new timber as may be required, in which to sail away to whole new worlds of light and life, where our friends are.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)