The latest images of Pattaya shipwreck ‘The Harddeep’ A.K.A ‘The Suddahip’ presented in walk-through 3D for the first time. These images resulting from survey data collected over many dives by wreck diver Alex Beuchel, show for the first time the origonal deck layout, rooms, holds and engine room of this charismatic Pattaya dive site.
How can thousands of recreational divers every year looking in every nook and cranny of a shipwreck as popular as the Hardeep wreck near Pattaya,Thailand miss an artifact as obvious as a China cup. Easy. Put it deep inside the wreck at the end of a tricky penetration dive hidden under 60 years of coral and shell growth.
The above cup, found in one of the forward staterooms of the Hardeep took many weeks of careful searching through the shells, sea urchins and scorpion fish before it ended up in the goody bag of a diver. Some mild acid and some very careful chips at the marine growth, eventualy got it to how it looks now.
Some medicine bottles and other pharmacy goods were also recovered in the same area. Rumour has it that the cup belonged to the ships doctor…