SBH 10 Fathoms Below

Jim Kelly-Evans

Senior Insider

• Feb 11, 2020

• #1

Tuesday afternoon I paid a return visit to a couple of St. Barth's underwater wrecks with my good friends from Serial Divers. It was a fun day of diving with some currents, which made keeping up with my much younger dive mates a bit of a challenge for this 71 year old. There were quite a nice assortment of reef inhabitants present.

 

debd

Senior Insider

• Feb 11, 2020

• #2

Fabulous.

 

stbartshopper

Senior Insider

• Feb 12, 2020

• #3

Jim
Your photos are always a Forum highlight for us.

 

amyb

Senior Insider

• Feb 12, 2020

• #4

So good to see the underwater world you show us. Merci.

 

andynap

Senior Insider

• Feb 12, 2020

• #5

Great shots

 

GramChop

Senior Insider

• Feb 12, 2020

• #6

Angels, grouper, tangs, lobster and a stingray...oh my! The coral looks quite colorful this year. I'm so happy you shared this, Jim; seeing what's below the surface is always fun!

 

Jim A

Senior Insider

• Feb 12, 2020

• #7

Those are great pics!!! Thanks for posting

 

GMP62

Senior Insider

• Feb 12, 2020

• #8

Fantastic photos! Thanks for sharing these with us all.

 

shihadehs

Senior Insider

• Feb 12, 2020

• #9

Amazing photos

 

fins85258

Senior Insider

• Feb 13, 2020

• #10

generally speaking, where are the wrecks located?

 

Jim Kelly-Evans

Senior Insider

• Feb 13, 2020

• #11

fins85258 said:

generally speaking, where are the wrecks located?

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The wrecks I've visited lie outside the harbor but not within the boundary of the marine park. Therefore, there is usually some underwater swimming required to reach them so as to avoid marine traffic above.

 

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cec1

Senior Insider

• Feb 14, 2020

• #12

Super pics . . . especially great to see so much healthy coral!

 

BND

Senior Insider

• Feb 14, 2020

• #13

cec1 said:

Super pics . . . especially great to see so much healthy coral!

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Amen to that!

 

KevinS

Senior Insider

• Feb 19, 2020

• #14

Jim, I ran across these two photos tonight. They're undated, but probably from November of '95 or April of '96. They show the wrecked freighter (Matignon?) on the rocks at Les Gros Islets, prior to its eventual sinking. This ship may have been one of the wrecks which you dove.

 

Jim Kelly-Evans

Senior Insider

• Feb 19, 2020

• #15

KevinS said:

Jim, I ran across these two photos tonight. They're undated, but probably from November of '95 or April of '96. They show the wrecked freighter (Matignon?) on the rocks at Les Gros Islets, prior to its eventual sinking. This ship may have been one of the wrecks which you dove.

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Thanks, Kevin. Actually this time I dove the "Non-Stop" and a sailboat wreck. I have dived the Marignon before. Here is a link to photos I took on that wreck in 2013:

https://www.sbhonline.com/forums/sh...-The-Wreck-of-Marignan?highlight=Beneath+reef

 

KevinS

Senior Insider

• Feb 20, 2020

• #16

Right, Marignon. Old memories can be imprecise. I have no photos of the Non-Stop. When she went down, she went down quickly, never to see the surface again.