{"id":75,"date":"2008-01-21T00:28:27","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T13:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/75-av-ulonga-big-boys-dive.html"},"modified":"2008-05-01T01:28:09","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T14:58:09","slug":"av-ulonga-big-boys-dive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/75-av-ulonga-big-boys-dive.html","title":{"rendered":"AV Ulonga &#8211; Big Boys Dive"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:137 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" style=\"float: left;border: 0px;padding-left: 5px;padding-right: 5px\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/marine\/AlexiusUlonga.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Last week a lucky few of us had the chance to dive the AV Ulonga.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe AV Ulonga was a Murray River paddle steamer converted to be an ocean-going cargo vessel. She sank in 1976 in around 38m of water about 10 nautical miles off the coast of South Australian&#8217;s Fleurieu Peninsula. At over 33m in length with some penetration, she makes for a fantastic dive.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPictured above on the descent are Alexius, with camera at the ready, and Ken. Notice the extra tanks we all took down for the dive. I&#8217;ll let you guess what&#8217;s in them! \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFor more information on the history of the AV Ulonga checkout Steve Reynold&#8217;s article at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlssa.asn.au\/nletters\/march2005.htm\" title=\"http:\/\/www.mlssa.asn.au\/nletters\/march2005.htm\">http:\/\/www.mlssa.asn.au\/nletters\/march2005.htm<\/a><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\/500s at f\/4 ISO200 Inon UWL100-28AD Lens  <br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week a lucky few of us had the chance to dive the AV Ulonga. The AV Ulonga was a Murray River paddle steamer converted to be an ocean-going cargo vessel. She sank in 1976 in around 38m of water about 10 nautical miles off the coast of South Australian&#8217;s Fleurieu Peninsula. At over 33m &#8230; <a title=\"AV Ulonga &#8211; Big Boys Dive\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/75-av-ulonga-big-boys-dive.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about AV Ulonga &#8211; Big Boys Dive\">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-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","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=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}