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magnificent 120 meter long shipwreck is the remains of a
US World War II freighter, torpedoed on January 11,1942
at 4:15 a.m. by a Japanese submarine while crossing the
Lombok Strait carrying material (rubber and railway
parts) from Australia to the Philippines. Two US
destroyers hitched up to the ship and tried to tow it to
the port of Singaraja. The damage was immense, she was
taking to much water and her crew ran the vessel up onto
the beach of Tulamben 70km away from safe harbor. For 21 years she stayed there, local people secured all items of any value, even parts of the deck. In 1963 the Liberty was pushed to her present location by the fatal eruption of the volcano Gunung Agung. During this process the hull broke into two peace's. Now she is laying only 30 meter from the beach on a sandy slope 90° on her side parallel to the shore. The deck side faces the ocean. The Liberty ship wreck is Bali's most visited dive site in perfect depth for scuba diving ranging from 2.5 meters down to 29 meters. There are a couple of impressive swim throughs, be cautious because the structure of the wreck is unstable, year by year parts collapse. Good growth of encrusting animals cover the wreck, marine biologists estimate that about 400 different species of reef fish live on the Liberty. On occation this site is visited by big pelagic species, |