SS MADRID
Nederland, Noord Holland
The SS Madrid is a beautiful wreck, where beginning wreck divers can make nice and calm dives. The SS Madrid was bombed in 1941 and caught on fire. Then it stranded on the Keizersbult. This is an infamous sandbank off the coast of Den Helder, where many ships found their downfall. The wreck lies on its keel and is already disintegrating. Yet there are still plenty familiar elements to see such as walls, steam engines and boilers. You can swim in between everything.
Particulars
SS Madrid. Type of ship: Passenger ship, Hamburg - South America Line. Height:. 133.96meters. Width: 17.29meters. Depth:. 8.36meters. Weight: 8,777 tons. Builder: Werf Stettiner Machinenfabrik AG Vulcan, Stettin. Year: 1922. Crew: 137 crew and 1329 passengers. Deepest point 17meters. Shallowest point: 5meters.
Warnings
For diving on the SS Madrid a good solid reel is mandatory. Use at least a double 7 tank for this dive.
SS MADRID Features
- Nicknames
- Sierra Nevada
- Address
- Noorderhaaks/Keizersbult ter hoogte van Den Helder
- Parking
- At boat charter
- Distance
- 30 min.
- Suitable for
- Inexperienced wreckdivers (after 50 dives)
- Permit
- N.v.t / NA
- Access
- Free access
- Facilities
- Boat dive facilities
- Water
- Salt
- Kind of dive
- Wreck dive, boat dive
- Current
- Medium
- Visibility
- 1 - 20 m.
- Average visibility
- 3 m.
- Depth
- 17 m.
- Bottom
- zand
- Life
- Starfish, anemone, cod, flatfish, pouting, cod, lobster, crab
- Other recreation
- None
- Emergency
- 112