USAT Liberty Shipwreck - Tulamben, Bali

Here's what Lonely Planet says about the Liberty : In January 1942 the US Navy cargo ship USAT Liberty was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine near Lombok. Taken in tow, it was beached at Tulamben so that its cargo of rubber and railway parts could be saved. The Japanese invasion prevented this and the ship sat on the beach until the 1963 eruption of Gunung Agung broke it in two and left it just off the shoreline.


The ship is over 100m long and for once I decided to rent an underwater camera for the adventure - I don't have the best underwater photo skills, but here are the highlight pics from the 2 of the 3 dives I did.

Map of the Wreck
Before the dive in my neoprene
Nudibranch aka sea slug
Stern of the ship

I think its a gun
Me


Big ol clam
Two very colorful slugs
A whole garden of eels
Big bad grouper
Clown fish and their anemone home


A 4ft barracuda with some very sharp teeth
A load of sweetlips (type of fish)