Seahawks SCUBA offers quality wreck diving specialty course in Andaman and ensures you to be a confident and comfortable wreck diver. Inchket Wreck is the dedicated dive site for wreck diving in Andaman. You must be an open water diver to enroll for wreck diving specialty program. Visit our official webpage to book a ticket for wreck diving.

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Wreck Diving Specialty Course in Andaman
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What is Wreck Diving?
The term Wreck Diving denotes recreational and technical diving where the wreckage of
ships, aircraft, and other man-made structures are explored. Professional divers conduct
wreck dives to explore or find out down wreckage, salvage work, accident or investigation
work, and archaeological surveys. A person who completed the Wreck Dive speciality
program is eligible to explore underwater drowned wreckage. Most wreckage dive sites
are shipwrecks, and there is an increasing trend to scuttle retired ships to create artificial
shipwreck reefs.
It is a popular form of diving that requires a specialised set of equipment, training, skills,
and experience. Artificial wreckage is the habitat of multiple species of marine life and
presents new skill challenges for scuba divers. Shipwrecks are usually large structures
with many exciting pieces of machinery, different rooms, personal items, and belongings
left behind. Which has often exciting or tragic history.
Inclusions of Wreck Diving Speciality Program
A person minimum of 12 years of age and who completed an open water diver
certification is eligible for a Wreck dive speciality course. He/she must be physically and
mentally fit to enrol for the program. The wreck diving speciality course includes the
following.
2 open water dives up to 18 meters
A personal instructor (Instructor and participant ratio is 1:2)

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Equipment rental
Certification cost
Complimentary pick-up and drop
The program involves boat dives (transport to the dive site via speed boat) and dive site
Inchket wreck based in Havelock Island. The whole program costs INR 15000 per
person excluding an additional 18% tax.
Types of Wreck Dive
There are usually 3 categories of wreck dive namely:
Non-penetration diving (Diving outside the wreckage)
Limited Penetration (Diving within the light zone)
Full Penetration (Diving beyond the light zone)
Non-penetration diving (Diving outside the wreckage)
The term Non-penetration diving involves diving around or outside the wreckage and is a
great form of diving for those with limited wreck dive experience. Non-penetration diving
is also suitable for people equipped with minimum equipment, skills, and training and
people nervous about venturing inside a wreck. Some wrecks are Non-penetration due to
their small size, and partial or full destruction, and the level of fragmentation makes them
unsuitable for penetration.
Limited Penetration (Diving within the light zone)
Limited penetration diving involves diving in a limited area inside a wreck with a minimum
chance of complicacy and ensnarement. Limited penetration diving allows divers to stay
within the limited light zone area created by a wreck while exploring it.
Full Penetration (Diving beyond the light zone)
Full penetration wreck dive allows divers to penetrate at any level of the wreck and is the
most advanced and adventurous form of wreck diving. The diver can explore any part
inside a wreck provided the structure is stable and divers are both skilled and
experienced enough to do the dive. Full penetration wreck dive is a kind of cave diving
and sometimes may involve decompression dives. This kind of wreck dive is a great way
to explore the entire shipwreck, different rooms, hidden wreckage areas, personal items
and equipment left behind.
Why Choose Wreck Diving?
Wreck dive is an advanced form of diving to learn the incredible history of multiple
drowned wrecks. The diving program offers opportunities to learn new skills and improve
body positioning, navigation, buoyancy, and finning techniques during wreck exploration.

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Wreck dive is the best way to explore abundant marine life in intensive areas because
wrecks are often possessed by critters, sponges, corals, and schools of reef fish seeking
shelter amongst wreckage structures. It is also a good opportunity to capture beautiful
moments of sunken wreckage and associated marine life. It’s going to be a wonderful
experience to witness the drowned wreckage of tanks, ships, and aeroplanes covered in
colourful corals.
Best Wreck Diving in Andaman
A cargo vessel named SS Inchkeith loaded with coal and timber got struck by a rock and
drowned south-east of the south Andaman district near Duncan Island in March 1955.
The ship wreckage sunken at a depth of 60 feet/ 18 meters and today is a popular site for
Wreck Diving in Andaman. Many enthusiastic divers love to explore pieces of
shipwreck, enormous propellers, hatches, and starboard and solitary giant grouper,
barracuda, sweetlips, ghost pipe fish, reef fish, boxfish, triggerfish, angelfish, and multiple
other marine species. The wreck is rusty and covered with patches of soft corals lying on
a sandy bottom.
Suggested Read: Open water diver course in Andaman
Essential Diving Gear for Wreck Diving
A specialised set of diving gear is optional at many shallow water wrecks. A diver must be
equipped with multiple torches, wreck reels, dive computers, air sources, and other
necessary wreck-diving tools for advanced wreck dives at depth.
The following are important items to carry along for wreck dives.
Compass
Dive knife
Wreck reel
Dive torch and backup
Required Skillset for Wreck Diving
A wreck diving speciality course is recommended to learn multiple skills for wreck diving
safety and to get the most out of it. Apart from that, a wreck diver must have good
buoyancy, navigation, clean dive gear setup to avoid possible collision with the wreck
interior and discard any loose gear to get trapped in the wreck. Frog finning is an
important technique for wreck penetration to prevent silt disturbance while exploring
wreck interiors. The best way to prevent disorientation during the dive is to familiarise
themselves with the wreck layout beforehand.
Possible Risks of Wreck Diving

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Limited and full penetration wreck dives involve a higher risk of disorientation, loss of
vision, and entanglement. The possible risk of disorientation arises when the clear water
inside the wreck becomes clouded by rust particles and sediments at the time of exit. The
potential dangers of wreck diving can be minimized by providing appropriate wreck dive
training to divers, using wreck reels to mark dive routes and undertaking dives within the
limits of knowledge, skills, experience, and level of training. Perfect buoyancy control and
frog finning techniques play an intense role in avoiding sediment disturbance during a
dive and are great skills for wreck dives.
Non-penetration wreck dives comparatively involve minimum risk and act as normal
recreational dives, however, divers should pay attention to avoid any sharp wreck edges.