Diving the Hoyo Maru

 


 

The Hoyo Maru is a big tanker, capsized with her keel up near the surface. Her superstructure is down in the sand at about 80 feet, and she's broken in two. The part of the ship forward of the superstructure has separated from the aft ship with a crack about 10 feet wide between the two parts.

The ship's bottom is covered with coral and other marine life, especially stony coral. There are lots of fish swimming around. We ended up playing around with an octopus for a while, too. They change colors rapidly, it's really amazing to see. Inside the ship's holds, or the oil tanks, there are what look like miles of pipe and many valves that were used to transfer the oil between holds. The holds are big and since the ship is overturned, they're very dark.



Here's Ken, making friends wherever he goes


 

 

 

 

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