LOCKHEED P2V NEPTUNE
Malta
The Lockheed P2V Neptune airplane wreck is located outside Bahar ic-Caghaq, east coast of Malta. The plane, known as the P2V in the U.S. Navy, was a U.S. built patrol aircraft and submarine hunter. This aircraft sustained damage during a routine landing at Luqa in the early 1950s. The Royal Air Force removed all salvageable parts. The wreck was discovered in 2015. It lies at depth of 30 metres, and consists of part of the middle section of the airplane without any major internal components and including substantial or complete wings.
Particulars
The plane was used for filming purposes in The Silent Enemy movie shot in 1958.
Warnings
Open sea so watch current, swell and waves.
LOCKHEED P2V NEPTUNE Features
- Nicknames
- P2V
- Address
- N.v.t. N/A
- Parking
- At boat charter
- Distance
- N.v.t. N/A
- Suitable for
- Advanced divers
- Permit
- N.v.t.
- Access
- Free access, by shot line or anchor line
- Facilities
- None
- Water
- Salt
- Tide
- N.v.t.
- Kind of dive
- Boat dive, wreck dive, explorer dive
- Current
- Medium, strong, variable
- Visibility
- 20 - 40 m.
- Average visibility
- 30 m.
- Depth
- 30 m.
- Bottom
- zand en zeegras
- Life
- Stingray, double banded bream, lizard fish, mediterranean cardinalfish or king of the mullets, small marine life, saddled bream, rainbow wrasse
- Other recreation
- None
- Emergency
- 112