2018 Grenada Shipwreck - Bianca C - Marc & Nat
Marc & Nat dove on this shipwreck in Dec 2018.
Built during World War II at Construction Navales La Ciotat, a shipyard on the southern coast of France, the ship was first launched in June 1944 under the name Marechal Petain. Construction had not yet been completed, so the ship was towed to Port de Bouc, near Marseille, where she was torpedoed by the Germans in August. When the hull was raised, it was renamed La Marseillaise and towed to Toulon before being returned to La Ciotat to be refitted as a cruise ship.[citation needed] When the remodeling was completed in July 1949, she sailed to Yokohama. In 1957, the ship was given the name Arosa Sky after being sold to Panama's Arosa Line. She was refitted again and became the company's flagship. She was chartered by the exchange organization American Field Service to bring students between the U.S. and Europe. Within two years Arosa Line was forced to sell the ship to Costa Line, an Italian company also known as Linea C. After that 1959 sale, the ship was renamed the Bianca C (the second Costa C ship so named) for one of the owner's daughters, and was refurbished once again. The Bianca C's main route ran from Italy to Venezuela, including stops in the Caribbean.
Sinking
On the 21st in the afternoon she left La Guaira (Venezuela) for Granada and Tenerife (Canary Islands). On Sunday October 22, 1961, the Bianca C docked off Grenada when an explosion occurred in the engine room in the early hours of the morning. One crewman died immediately, and eight others were injured. As fires broke out, approximately 700 passengers and crew scrambled to abandon the ship while Grenadian fishermen and boat owners, awakened by the noise of the explosion, near the harbor of St. George's rushed to help. Survivors were taken to the capital, where makeshift hospitals were hastily established to provide shelter and food. Because Grenada did not have the equipment to quench such a large fire, a call for help was sent and was received by the British frigate HMS Londonderry at Puerto Rico. It took two days for the Londonderry to arrive, and by that time the Bianca C had begun to sink. The burning ship was in the main anchorage and would block the harbor if it sank there, so a Londonderry boarding party boarded the flaming ship to attach a towline. The anchor lines of the Bianca C were burned, and today the anchors are still at the mouth of the St. George's harbor. Meanwhile, the Londonderry moved to tow the Bianca C, but the latter ship was listing to port. Thousands of Grenadians watched from the mountains as the tow progressed for six hours, but the Bianca C. had only moved three miles (5 km) when a squall started and the towline broke. The Bianca C sank quickly into 165 feet (50 m) of water, about a mile from the popular tourist beach at Grand Anse.
Diving the largest Wreck in the Caribbean Bianca C, Grenada
We dropped off at the stern then dived on the port side towards the bow.
At the bow were huge forests of hard corals and Gorgonias. On the second dive we saw many tube, barrel, and rope sponges, schools of damsel juvenile fish and goat fish, squirrel fish and got up close to a Feather Worm.
The MV Bianca C Story
This is just one small part of our Grenadian History. You can find out more about this ship at the Grenada National Museum. Or if you're adventurous, you can visit its dive site.
Footage by: Dave Simpson. Edited by: Shereece Victor.
Thank you Mr. Simpson for your contribution.
Diving the Titanic of the Caribbean - Bianca C, Grenada
Anytime we hear the word diving we get excited. We got the diving bug and we hope you catch it too.
Diving is fun cause you we get to explore the amazing places.
On this dive we went the Bianca C with Tatiana Costantini following her as she explores the wreck.
The Bianca C is the largest wreck in the Caribbean.
It was an amazing dive
DWV Bianca C Shipwreck GRENADA episode
The Bianca C is known as the Andrea Doria of the Caribbean. She sits in 160 feet of water off the island of Grenada. This video was part of the Dive Wreck Valley TV series which was filmed back in the 1990s. It depicts the history and underwater condition of this fascinating shipwreck.
Grenada scuba dive on the Bianca C
The Bianca C is a key site to visit when Scuba Diving in Grenada. Known as the 'Titanic of the Caribbean' due to her sheer size and presence. The Bianca C has been listed as one of the 'top ten' worldwide wreck sites by several diving magazines and international experts. This enormous 180 (600') metre long Cruise Liner sank in 1961 and sits upright on her keel in 50 metres ('165') of water. The diving on this awesome Grenada wreck never fails to impress and amaze divers.
Bianca C. in Grenada
Fun dive on a big cruise-liner wreck
squid feeding frenzy bianca c grenada.mov
This is a never before seen event in Grenada. Thousands of squid in a feeding and mating frenzy at the Bianca C dive wreck of the southern coast of Grenada. The video footage where captured by Sea stallion scuba outfitters ( from California. Special thanks to Bob Carter co owner of Sea Stallion of the video footage. Music Spice isle rock by Mr. Killer - grenada soca
Grenada - Bianca C
On Sunday October 22, 1961, the Bianca C docked off Grenada when an explosion occurred in the engine room in the early hours of the morning. One crewman died immediately, and eight others were injured. As fires broke out, approximately 700 passengers and crew scrambled to abandon the ship while Grenadian fishermen and boat owners, awakened by the noise of the explosion, near the harbor of St. George's rushed to help. Survivors were taken to the capital, where makeshift hospitals were hastily established to provide shelter and food. Because Grenada did not have the equipment to quench such a large fire, a call for help was sent and was received by the British frigate HMS Londonderry at Puerto Rico. It took two days for the Londonderry to arrive, and by that time the Bianca C had begun to sink. The burning ship was in the main anchorage and would block the harbor if it sank there, so a Londonderry boarding party boarded the flaming ship to attach a towline. The anchor lines of the Bianca C were burned, and today the anchors are still at the mouth of the St. George's harbor. Meanwhile, the Londonderry moved to tow the Bianca C, but the latter ship was listing to port. Thousands of Grenadians watched from the mountains as the tow progressed for six hours, but the Bianca C. had only moved three miles (5 km) when a squall started and the towline broke. The Bianca C sank quickly into 165 feet (50 m) of water, about a mile from the popular tourist beach at Grand Anse.
Grenada Wrecks - Bianca C by ScubaTech
The Bianca C sank on the 24th October 1961 after an explosion in the boiler room 2 days before in the Port of St. Georges. All passengers could be rescued by locals. There were only 2 fatalities, one engineer who died immediately and one who died a day later in the hospital in Barbados. The fire caused by the explosion was so fierce that the water in the port started to boil and the metal of the ship was glowing red. A British war ship tried to tow the ship out of the port and beach it at the shallows of Point Saline. Unfortunately the rudder of the Bianca C jammed and the tow line snapped. She circled a couple of times and than she sank close to Wibbles Reef. Today 2/3 of the wreck sit upright on the sandy bottom at 52m/170ft. The stern part form the boiler room on lies on its starboard side. Even though the wreck collapsed a lot in the last couple of years she still makes a beautiful dive. You regularly see big schools of barracudas and jacks and occasionally some bull sharks and eagle rays.
For more information or to book some dives with us please visit our webpage at scubatech-grenada.com
Bianca C
The cruise ship Bianca C. sunk in 1961, in Grenada Island.
Diving Grenada Wrecks and Reefs
Summary of 9 dives with Eco Dive and Trek in Grand Anse Beach of Grenada.
Main features the wrecks of Bianca C, Veronica L, Shake'em and Quarter Wreck plus other reef dive including Shark Reef
Shot with Panasonic LX7 in Nauticam housing. Full details of my rig on my blog
Wreck of the Bianca C in Grenada 2015
Diving on the wreck of the Bianca C in Grenada - May 2015
Grenada's Bianca C Shipwreck
DreamWreck's Dominique Serafini captures the wreck of the Bianca C. For more about the shipwrecks of the Caribbean, go to
Nitrox Dive on Bianca C - Grenada with ScubaTech
Bianca C - Sandals Grenada - 23rd July 2019
Bianca C - Sandals Grenada - 23rd July 2019. Amazing shipwreck. Could not cover all of it in one dive its too large. Saw a lovely turtle resting on the wreck as we left it,
Dive on Bianca C wreck - Grenada with Scubatech.
Plongée sur le paquebot Bianca C à Grenade
TOTROPAHIN O JOJOWAIN CHALLENGE||Collaboration w/ Bianca C||
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