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My ambition of blogging about my diving haven’t quite materialized yet. Right now I am located in London with tech diving being constrained to sporadic events.

Yet another dive at Edith

Team: Jan Henry S. Fosse, Martin Naalsund, Henning

Target: Steam Boat - Edith, Drøbak

Description: Fairly good visibility, quite cold, strong annoying current at deco. About the wreck (from skovheim.org)

Edith was a combined cargo and passenger ship which went down after a tragic collision with the British steamer Oxford a bit north of Drøbak city in Akershus county on the April 23rd 1909. The accident was published as a catastrophy where only six people saved their lives and cost another sixteen onboard their lives. Edith was on a journey from Manchester in England to Kristiania (Oslo) when the accident occurred. The wreck of Edith lies today broken in two pieces, and is a popular target for technical divers and wreck divers in the region. The depths of the wreck goes from twentythree to seventytwo meters quite close to land between Revjeodden and Båtstø. The bow of the ship is the shallowest part, and can be found on a depth of approximately twentythree to thirty meters depht. A boat is recommended if you want to dive on this wreck…

Another nice article and illustration of the wreck here.

Dear visitor. Once again I am restructuring my online spaces to make it more feasible to keep up to date. The present structure is a combination of too many old and new web-technologies (right now the main site it becoming far too heavy to load)

My old website (www.vannoverhodet.no) will now direct to this diveblog. Previous content will be moved to the blog www.nextgenerationme.net

Had a great dive hunting for fish at the Svenner lighthouse outside Sandefjord. In addition to all the fish we caught with our more traditional fishing rods, the spearfishing added a nice “Sjøtunge” that tasted superb after being barbecued!

Some student training and a relaxing recreational dive at Sjøstrand. Obviously not the most exciting place in the world in terms of marine creatures, but still a nice place to stretch out in the water.

Target: “Recreational Wreck Dive”

Team: Ronald Larsen & Jan Henry S. Fosse

Description:

We (Jan Tore, Martin, Ronald and myself) headed out in the RIB at around noon, eager to entertain ourselves with some shallow and relaxed diving at one of the closest wrecks in the Oslo area (yet a wreck with a rather dramatic history…see wreck description at the bottom). Quite disappointed we arrived at the “thought to be” site only to discover that the plastic cans that used to mark her position were gone. Although Selma found her resting place not far from shore, we spent quite some time trying to locate her and were close to give up when Ronald urged to have a final go with the coordinates and to try to hit her with the light-anchor. At a site slightly off the GPS-coordinates, Ronald ordered the anchor to be thrown in the water, and it did not take many seconds before it started to pull rope. Jan Tore and Martin dropped down in the water to see what we had found….Ronald’s facial expression tells the rest of the story having spotted Martins surface marker confirming that we had indeed found Selma. All in all it was a great day out at sea!

…looking

Jackpot!

Visibility was not as exciting, but at least a couple of photos of ourselves and a snapshot of the boat…

About the Wreck (From skovheim.org)

The steamship Selma went down in the deep at Hellvikflu after a final explosion on the 11. January 1944. In this explosion three German soldiers lost their lives and Selma found her last resting place. Selma had been anchored at Hellvikflu outside Nesoddlandet since the accident at Filipstad on sunday 19. December 1943, which in the history books are named ” The Filipstad Accident”, which devastated the harbor area and large parts of Drammensveien in Oslo city. A ship that was not far from Selma when the accident happened was the ship Johann Faulbaum which got away from the accident unharmed, but was sunk later in the war in Finnmark county. The Filipstad Accident happened when the cargo Selma was loaded with, 1200 tons of ammunition, exploded at 14:28 on the afternoon and destroyed the whole area around Filipstad and several buildings nearby. The cargo consisted of grenades, small arms ammunition and other supplies for the German Wehrmacht in Norway. If the explosions occurred through sabotage or an accident is still unknown. During the Filipstad accident thirty six men lost their lives and another four hundred where injured, and the materiel damages on Oslo where calculated to 30 million nkr! In the summer of 1995 some workers dug up an AA- grenade in the Castle park just outside the Royal Castle in Karl Johan which came from the accident in 1943!

Target: Skills Dive - Svestad, Nesodden

Team: Ronald Larsen, Fredrik S. L. & Jan Henry S. Fosse

Description:

Great dive, with some always entertaining stage handling and scootering. The main outcome of this dive? The X-scooter is a great machine!

Team: Jan Henry S. Fosse, Fredrik S. Lægernes, Robert Hanke

Target: Steam Boat - Edith, Drøbak

Description: Very nice dive with no unplanned events. Fairly good visibility, and nice temperature! - Penetrated a couple of sections I had not entered before, and in general enjoyed a nice day out at sea. About the wreck (from skovheim.org)

Edith was a combined cargo and passenger ship which went down after a tragic collision with the British steamer Oxford a bit north of Drøbak city in Akershus county on the April 23rd 1909. The accident was published as a catastrophy where only six people saved their lives and cost another sixteen onboard their lives. Edith was on a journey from Manchester in England to Kristiania (Oslo) when the accident occurred. The wreck of Edith lies today broken in two pieces, and is a popular target for technical divers and wreck divers in the region. The depths of the wreck goes from twentythree to seventytwo meters quite close to land between Revjeodden and Båtstø. The bow of the ship is the shallowest part, and can be found on a depth of approximately twentythree to thirty meters depht. A boat is recommended if you want to dive on this wreck…

Another nice article and illustration of the wreck here.

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