Sydney Project divers passion for exploration and going where no one been before inspires the group to find new wrecks and bring them back to life. The following database is for wrecks we have found, dived, or currently searching for. Once rust is in your blood, there is just something about diving wrecks that is hard to describe. The chance of a new discovery, the history and circumstances behind the loss of a vessel and in some cases the tragic loss of life. Visiting a ship for the first time since it went down, is a special feeling and a rare privilege that will always drive us to find new wrecks.

To read more about the wrecks listed below, click on their name.
 

BEGA - Steamer Screw Encounter Ex-H.M.A.S - Steamer screw Iron Knight - Iron oar carrier Keilawarra - Steamer Screw Koputai - Steamer paddle Nemesis - Steamer screw SS Cumberland - Merchant SS Wear - Steamer screw William Dawes - Liberty

"SS Wear" Montague Island - Steamer screw Max Depth: 120 Mtrs Average Depth: 120 Mtrs Average Viz: 20 Mtrs Lives Lost: 1 Construction: Iron Sank In: 1944 The Wear was wrecked 15 kms off Montague Island on 8 September 1944 after a collision at night with the Norwegian freighter MV Anatina.  The vessel was struck amidships about 1.00a.m. and almost cut in half. Many of the crew jumped into the sea in their pajamas, with the vessel sinking some forty minutes later. All but Newcastle man Harold Pring survived. Wear was travelling about 10-knots towards Newcastle to load coal. Newspapers record a crew of 32 or 56. The 1892-ton steel single screw steamer was built by John Brown in Sunderland, United Kingdom in 1911, and registered at the port of Melbourne.  The vessel had a length of 81.6 metres and a beam of 11.5 metres and was powered by a triple expansion engine. A collier operating on the Newcastle to Melbourne route, Wear was owned by James Patterson & Co., Melbourne.