{"id":73,"date":"2008-01-19T23:22:45","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T12:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/73-ex-hmas-hobart.html"},"modified":"2008-05-01T01:29:39","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T14:59:39","slug":"ex-hmas-hobart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/73-ex-hmas-hobart.html","title":{"rendered":"Ex HMAS Hobart"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:136 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" style=\"float: left;border: 0px;padding-left: 5px;padding-right: 5px\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/marine\/HobartEngine.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>The Ex-HMAS Hobart is one of Australia&#8217;s best naval wreck dives. This Adam&#8217;s class guided missile destroyer was sunk here in 2002 as an eco-tourism draw card.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAt over 130m long there&#8217;s a lot of wreck to dive on. Much of the wreck is in the 15-25m region which gives lots of bottom time. Still plan at least 10 dives to see it properly!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis photograph was taken in one of the engine rooms at around 23m.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAs my first &#8216;fun&#8217; dive for the year and my first dive on the Hobart with my camera, it was a fantastic way to kick-start 2008.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nUntil the next post, take care out there and keep diving ( if that&#8217;s what you do! ) &#8230;Robert <br \/>\n<br \/>\nPhoto: Robert Rath C5060 1\/30s at f\/6.7 ISO200 Inon UWL100-28AD Lens<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ex-HMAS Hobart is one of Australia&#8217;s best naval wreck dives. This Adam&#8217;s class guided missile destroyer was sunk here in 2002 as an eco-tourism draw card. At over 130m long there&#8217;s a lot of wreck to dive on. Much of the wreck is in the 15-25m region which gives lots of bottom time. Still &#8230; <a title=\"Ex HMAS Hobart\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/73-ex-hmas-hobart.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ex HMAS Hobart\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}