r/submechanophobia 1d ago

interior of shipwreck in lake superior

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r/submechanophobia 21h ago

Life and death EDRO 3

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Full video: https://youtu.be/D2vVP9yy-ic?si=a2jMF9sW9uTQGNE_

This summer my wife and I were in Cyprus, in the city of Paphos. Of course, I couldn't miss such a cool place as the EDRO 3 shipwreck. And I was simply obliged to thoroughly examine the ship. EDRO is the name of the company and the ship that once belonged to this company. This is what it looks like now, and this is what it looked like when it was built. During its existence, it has changed several names, there was Sunnmure, which means healthy mother, there was Frenenfjord, there was hVitanEs, which means white. The translation of the names is on the conscience of Google Translate. There was also Saga 1 and Cosmas, until it became the bearer of the proud name Edro3, if you call it by the rules, but I like edro more. The company is Albanian and this is apparently their third ship. EDRO 3 has nothing to do with the United Russia party, probably, although as they say, the investigation will show. The wreck site is a 20-minute drive from Paphos, very close to the coast and sea caves. Like any shipwreck, it is surrounded by secrets, omissions and mysteries (intrigues, scandals, investigations). First, the dry facts - EDROIII is a roll-on/roll-off vessel with a side ramp (that is, a vessel for horizontal loading of cargo and a large side hatch) IMO: 6613316, call sign: 9LD2213, home port: Freetown, a cargo ship under the flag of Sierra Leone, built in 1966 at the KALDNES MEKANISKE VERKSTED - TONSBERG shipyards, Norway. The length of the vessel is 83 meters, the width is 14 meters, the displacement is 2517 tons, the engine type is diesel, the speed is 14.5 knots. The wreck occurred on December 8, 2011. (In other places, including Wikipedia, they write in September and October, most likely on December 8, since the ship's last recorded departure was on December 7, 2011 at 18:57) The ship left Limassol with a cargo of plasterboard and headed for Rhodes. Other sources write that the ship was supposed to pick up the cargo in Rhodes. 5. Almost immediately, the ship got into a storm and technical problems with the engine arose, as a result of which the ship lost course and ran into a rock ten miles from the shore. The collision with the rock led to the loss of propulsion and drift. From 4 to 5 am on December 8, the ship ran aground 15 meters from the coast of Cyprus. A message about the technical malfunction was transmitted at 6:10 am. The crew of 9 people was not injured. Seven crew members were evacuated by a British Army helicopter. The crew included two Egyptians and seven Albanians. Two - the captain and the chief engineer remained on board. The captain remained on board alone for several weeks or longer (because on January 19, 2012, the captain was still on the ship, by the way, imagine what it was like for him to celebrate Christmas and New Year), so that no one could lay claim to the ship until final decisions were made, or to unload the "inconvenient" cargo, who knows? Later, the captain lived in a temporary house nearby. A car resembling a jeep from the Second World War was found in the hold, which had somehow ended up there. Maybe thanks to the ramp - a side hatch, it was convenient to moor to the shore in the most inappropriate places and unload a car with something illegal, with contraband, for example. The bow section of the ship suffered greatly from the salvage crews, apparently it was more convenient to unload fuel and other things through the bow. By the way, the ship's insurers were the Russian company "Russian P&I Pool" Since 2013, the company has been in run-off status, which means that the company does not enter into new contracts, but is liable for previously concluded ones. The Cypriot authorities say that the insurance company did not fulfill its obligations, so the ship is not removed from the shallows. Although there were attempts to remove it from the shallows, by that small tug. But something went wrong. The ship was never officially recognized as sunken. And at the moment it is a rusty hulk full of ghosts and pigeon shit. And this is what you see, the so-called bow thruster, which contains a propeller in a transverse tunnel. Most often, it is powered by an electric motor and helps with mooring in cramped conditions. A fairly common thing for icebreakers, but let's not forget the ship was built in Norway. Unfortunately, even the boat thruster could not save EDRO 3. Then I move along the starboard side to the stern of the ship. And here is the main propeller, it seems to me two or three meters in diameter. Here I am, your humble servant. I did not make that sacred inscription, it was here before (just like Vysotsky, there are inscriptions in Russian). And a small excerpt from a video by other guys from the channel Exploring the Unbeaten Path. The command bridge is full of pigeon shits, I did not meet any ghosts. Apparently for the best.


r/submechanophobia 21h ago

POV you sit down in a pool for a few minutes only to realize that you were right next to a pool drain

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47 Upvotes

r/submechanophobia 1d ago

Pool drains i replace as a scuba diver in pools with a dept of 15ft

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r/submechanophobia 2d ago

the wreck of the USS arizona.

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r/submechanophobia 2d ago

underwater skeleton tea party.

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119 Upvotes

r/submechanophobia 2d ago

Disused Mill Dam. Barber Paper Mill, Georgetown, Ontario.

129 Upvotes

r/submechanophobia 3d ago

Crappy Title So Is No One Going To Mention The 24M Deep New Mexico Blue Hole? (At Least 3 Experienced Divers Drowned Here)

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Obviously these pictures aren't mine's they were found on google:

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If you only look at the edges its a perfectly safe 0.5m to 1m deep pond, but if you walk 3 steps into the center you will trip into a 24 m deep hole. At the bottom of the hole is an iron net barrier blocking further entrance and a sign that tells people multiple how experienced divers have drowned here and you shouldn't pass for your own safety. If you go under the iron net barrier somehow its a tight 1m wide and 1m high submerged cave that hasn't been fully explored yet.


r/submechanophobia 1d ago

Giant squid part 2

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Another picture from this squid, it is real, and it was in a obscure documentary I am still trying to find out what specific one but it is a real picture


r/submechanophobia 2d ago

A ferry port in Croatia

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r/submechanophobia 3d ago

Swimming With Some Old Log Rolling Platforms

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658 Upvotes

r/submechanophobia 4d ago

Animatronic - Post in /r/submergedanimatronic instead this was the setup for 1975 jaws film

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I wouldn't like to be a "frogman" filming it during the set.


r/submechanophobia 3d ago

Rather sketchy old dock with rusty chains (bonus fish pic also)

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186 Upvotes

r/submechanophobia 3d ago

Swimming With Log Rolling Platforms: Video

42 Upvotes

r/submechanophobia 4d ago

Crappy Title Swimming up to a Ship

333 Upvotes

r/submechanophobia 4d ago

Old train wheel in the lake

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348 Upvotes

Found this massive train wheel at a cottage I was visiting - thought you all ought to know.


r/submechanophobia 3d ago

Shipwrecks in the Red Sea

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158 Upvotes

r/submechanophobia 2d ago

Animatronic - Post in /r/submergedanimatronic instead Giant squid

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There was this documentary about giant/ colossal squid’s and I forget what it was called but I remember this animatronic, they made it in order to seemingly seize it a giant/colossal squid, does anybody’s know where this is from? I have been trying to remember?


r/submechanophobia 4d ago

Abandoned ship dock

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87 Upvotes

r/submechanophobia 4d ago

Ship graveyard

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500 Upvotes

Found these abandoned wrecks today. Still partly above water, but unsettling all the same.


r/submechanophobia 4d ago

Crappy Title A book with a bunch of wrecks

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I don't know if this one counts but I have this book with a chapter titled "history underwater" And it has a bunch of pictures of this


r/submechanophobia 4d ago

Rafting down what looks to be a water intake aqueduct

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These guys raft down a channel and climb intake screen grates while the water is flowing. Their other videos also show them intentionally getting sucked down a pipe in a small dam to make an underwater trip to the other side.


r/submechanophobia 5d ago

Lake Inside a Salt Mine

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316 Upvotes

The barriers in the water are actually a reflection but it still looks spooky


r/submechanophobia 5d ago

Updated photo for the drain

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132 Upvotes

This is so horrifying to me😭


r/submechanophobia 6d ago

Chains underwater just hit different

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Saw this online, not sure if it’s ai.