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:
“Better to sink in boundless deeps, than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.”
—June Jordan (b. 1939)
“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)