If it is any consolation, the best of the photos are in the Ballard book I mentioned. Diving on the wreck of the Lusitania has become as controversial as the circumstances of the sinking itself. Normal recreational scuba dives (with no decompression requirements) are normally between 30m-40m. Just three years following the sinking of the Titanic, there was another tragedy in the Atlantic: the 1915 sinking of the RMS Lusitania.. Of the 1,960 known passengers, 1,196 of them died after the … Roosevelt believed that the attack warranted a military reprisal and that the United States had little choice but to enter the war. Deep Shipwreck Dives in The 1990s. RMS Lusitania sinking: Incredible new undersea images shows WWI shipwreck that claimed 1,200 lives. The entire site looks like a plane crash site, the wreck is that torn up. 93m sounds a lot, and it is. Table 1 below highlights the ten deepest tech wreck dives from 1989-1999, including their location, depth, dive profile, the technology used, and the technical divers who first dived the wreck. At 88 metres, the wreck of the Lusitania is a challenging dive. As such, any diving on the wreck requires permission from both the authorities and the owner. The attack on the passenger ship claimed … From what I've read, the British War Ministry was worried that Nazi subs would be able to hid on the bottom near the wreck and not be caught, so the decision was made to destroy as much of the wreck as possible, to take away their hiding place. Wreck. Fishing is extremely popular in this region of the Celtic Sea. The majority of these dives were reported at the time in my magazine aquaCORPS Journal. The Lusitania sank, killing 1,195 people on board, including 123 Americans. Although prohibited to fish over the wreck by law, fisherman still comb the area over the wreck and continuously lose their nets to the Lusitania. Latitude: 51° 24' 44.6112" N Longitude: -8° 32' 52.2708" W. These two items caused a minor sensation when their presence aboard the Lusitania was first revealed in the American press shortly after the sinking. Former President Theodore Roosevelt disagreed with Wilson's diplomatic response to the sinking of the Lusitania. But Irish divers have made a series of trips to the historic site off the Old Head of Kinsale, culminating in one in 2008 when some of the ship’s controversial ammunition cargo was recovered, writes Timmy Carey, Blackwater Sub Aqua Club. A little past noon on May 1, Lusitania gave three blasts of its horn as it left Pier 54 in New York City and began moving down the Hudson River to the Atlantic Ocean. There have been a few privately sponsored dives to the Lusitania. The wreck is owned by American Gregg Bemis and was declared as a protected wreck by the Irish Government in 1995. Lusitania is in a very advanced state of decay, far worse than the stern section of Titanic. ~ GPS Shipwreck Location ~. Unknown to the passengers on board, however, were 173 tons of weaponry bound for war. The RMS Lusitania had recently departed New York when it was fatally torpedoed by a German U-boat. You also have to remember that the Lusitania was extensively depth charged and bombed during WW2.