Date with a princess

rogeringebo

On Sunday and Monday a group of friends and divers dived The Princess of the Orient here in the Philippines. A long awaited treat for all of us.
She is 200m long and 26m wide. 13 700 ton. She is on her port side and the wreck start at 100m. She sank 1998 in the storm Vicki and took over 200 souls with her. She is to this date the biggest ferry ever to traffic Philippino waters.
The dives ranged in depth and time but the longest bottom time was around 15 minutes and the deepest depth recorded 126m. Total run times were just over 3 hrs. The bow was visited and filmed for the very first time.

Just a little peek of what she looks like under water.
This video was shot 2004 and features Paul Neilson. Video by Rob Jacobs info@calypsomultimedia.com

The divers were
Roger Ingebo - Pelagian DCCCR
- La Laguna Beach Club La Laguna Beach Club & Dive Centre Philippines

Paul Neilson - KISS
- Mandarin Divers Mandarin Divers - Hong Kong

Mike Taylor - Open Circuit
- Atlantis Diving Philippines - Atlantis Dive Resorts, Dumaguete and Puerto Galera, Philippines

Matt Reed - Open Cirquit
- Atlantis Diving Philippines - Atlantis Dive Resorts, Dumaguete and Puerto Galera, Philippines

Support
Karl Jakobsson
Ross Hemingway
Mikael Junes

Pics by
Dennis Champ

Set up, expertise and know how
Frank Doyle and staff from La Laguna Beach Club Puerto Galera onboard Rags II La Laguna Beach Club & Dive Centre Philippines

Many thanks to everyone that made this happen!
Thoughts go to Mark Tuttle who got sick and missed the dives. There is always next time, mate!

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rogeringebo

Just some more pics...

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rogeringebo

The pics show life jacket, the ships logo, bridge and the whole team as we returned to Puerto Galera

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matt_reed

I finally got around to editing this together. I didn't have a great deal of bottom footage to work with, but Dennis's photos add nicely to the beginning and end. Hope you like it

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Enjoy!