type:Wreck
Long : ca 140 m
Bred : 18 m
tonn : 7,369 t
Level:experience divers
Current:no
Deep:20-70 m
Seattle went down in the Korsvikfjorden under the German invasion
Weserubung 9. April 1940. The ship was on its way in to Kristiansand
when she came under crossfire between the German cruiser Karlsruhe and
the norwegian coastal fortress Odderøya, and the Norwegian forces
thought this was a vessel that supported the German forces and started
to shoot on the vessel with their 150 mm cannons. Seattle caught within
a few minutes fire after several hits from the norwegian fort, and the
crew abandoned the ship and were captured by the norwegian forces, were
they were kept captive until the 10th of April. In the meantime the
vessel continued to burn in several days before she drifted over the
fjord ans sank in the the deep at Dvergsnestangen. around April 13. The
wreck of Seattle was located by Erling Skjold/NSA in 1988, and has
become a very popular dive site in Norway. The vessel rest
today on a depth of twenty to seventy meters in good conditions.
The wreck lays 400 metres from the dive shop.
Gps position :
58°07 668“ E 008 03 139
Surface boye 1 yellow small boa 20m and red at 52 m)
It is not raccomanded to
dive with wind more then 12m/s from S,SW,SE,W.
