June 21st 2021 we found a new wreck. Cpt. Linas from the Baltic Sear Heritage Rescue Project saw it on his sonar scan of NZ55 while we were on the way back from an other wreck. We decided to dive there and look what we would find. Indeed there was a nice wooden wreck of around 32m length. It looks like the cargo was wood. It is still not identified.
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Dive: 55m deep & 30min bottom time Position: Baltic sea, Lithuania 3700 pictures from two Gopro7
The steamer ELBING IX sank in the First World War in 1913. It ran into a mine near Klaipeda (formerly Memel) when it was on its way to rescue the castaways of the warship FRIEDRICH CARL.
The bell was found by the BSHRP in 2018. It’s on the wooden deck. In 2019 I was able to take pictures of the bell, which I was able to convert into a 3D model with the help of Robert Szymaniuk.
Fair BOOT 2020
At BOOT 2020 we presented the model of the bell at the booth of the Baltic Sea Heritage Rescue Project and every day we printed a bell.