Le Polynesian

There have been a few dives going out to Le Polynesian the over the last couple of weeks. Jacques has made a video on it which he sent to us the other day which you can see if you follow this link:

http://www.haliotisexplovideo.com/

For those of you who have not been, or those of you that have been but don’t know much about it I thought I’d do a blog on it.

Le Polynesian is also known as The Plate Wreck because she sunk so quickly most of the plates and other some other artefacts can still be found on the wreck. She was hit by the torpedo of a German UC22 on the 10^th August 1918 and sank in 35 minutes.

She lies at her port side on a 45 degree angle 7 miles outside of Valetta Grand Harbour. The two deck guns, one on the bow and one on the stern are still present. Due to currents that are nearly always present, which vary from mild to very strong, there is an amazing amount of marine life to be found at this site, like big grouper and large schools of barracuda. Take a look at the divers bubbles when they are ascending in the video! If certified, there are lots of penetration possibilities on the Polynesian.