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New Wreck For Dive Park - Saxon Ranger

The 400-tonne former trawler Saxon Ranger will become the show piece wreck of the new West Coast Dive Park at Rockingham, Western Australia. The Saxon Ranger was built in the early 1960s at Grimsby UK as a side trawler for work in the North Atlantic.

In 1974 it was brought to Australia to help develop a southern fishery off Albany and over the years has also worked Antarctic and Tasmanian waters.The boat is expected to be sunk in 20 meters of water off Warnbro Sound with in Shoalwater Islands marine park. The scuttling date is aiming around the 22nd of may this year.

While some of the wrecks in the dive park date back to 1874 (the Chalmers) it is important to add new wrecks.

A vessel like the Saxon Ranger is ideal because it already has extensive access through three holds which will make diving around and through the vessel relatively easy.

For more information about the Dive Park please visit web site below

West Coast Dive Park

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