Drone flight over the RMS Rhone Shipwreck site and then over Beautiful Salt Island, BVI
Salt Island, British virgin islands.
Can't see the Rhone unfortunately.
Snokeling the Rhone at
Bebop 2
3:13 for pass over Salt Island
Salt Island, BVI Vid 1
RMS Rhone, Salt Island, British Virgin Islands
rms rhone sunk off of salt island in the British Virgin Islands. probably the most famous ship wreck in the caribbean.
DIVE BVIs 2015 - RMS Rhone, Salt Island, BVI
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Dinghy dive.
76 ft / 38 minutes, 86F.
Sights: RMS Rhone, Spotted eel, lobster, porcupinefish
Dive Buddies: Alex Fasass, Captain Bill of the s/v A Stray Shower
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Thanks Captain Bill.
RMS Rhone Salt Island BVI June 26 2017
Snorkeling the RMS Rhone shipwreck, off Salt Island, BVI 2017
Snorkeling the stern section of the RMS Rhone shipwreck off Salt Island BVI, 2017
Diving the RMS Rhone, Salt Island, BVI
Diving the RMS Rhone, Salt Island, BVI
RMS Rhone Wreck Dive, British Virgin Islands
Join a dive on the RMS Rhone, an 1867 shipwreck in the British Virgin Islands. The Rhone was pushed onto the rocks by a hurricane, claiming 123 lives and is now a highly rated dive site and marine reserve.
The divers used the sailing catamaran AQUA for this dive. AQUA is available to charter from Conch Charters (conchcharters.com).
Diving the RMS Rhone Wreck, Tortola/Salt Island BVI (Part 1)
Diving the RMS Rhone Wreck, Tortola BVI (Salt Island)
Filmed by: Wes Jueckstock
Date: 2/17/16
History of RMS Rhone:
Drone Flight over the Salt Island salt ponds, BVI
Bebop 2 FPV drone flight over Salt Island, British Virgin Islands
Salt Island, BVI Vid 2
Diving RMS Rhone - Salt Island BVI
RMS Rhone was a UK Royal Mail Ship owned by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSP). She was wrecked off the coast of Salt Island in the British Virgin Islands on 29 October 1867 in a hurricane, killing 123 people.
Rhone had an iron hull, was 310 feet (94 m) long, had a 40-foot (12 m) beam and 2,738 GRT. She was a sail-steamer, rigged as a two-masted brig. Her compound steam engine developed 500 NHP and gave her a speed of 14 knots (26 km/h) on her sea trials. In her contract the ship cost £25 17s 8d per ton and her engine cost £24,500
Rhone is now a popular dive site, and the area around her was turned into a national park in 1967.
Rhone has received a number of citations and awards over the years as one of the top recreational wreck dives in the Caribbean, both for its historical interest and teeming marine life, and also because of the open and relatively safe nature of the wreckage. Very little of the wreckage is still enclosed, and where overhead environments do exist, they are large and roomy and have openings at either end permitting a swim through, so there is no real penetration diving for which divers usually undergo advanced training.
Her bow section is still relatively intact, and although the wooden decks have rotted away, she still provides an excellent swim-through for divers. Her entire iron hull is encrusted with coral and overrun by fishes (and the local barracuda named Fang), and the cracks and crevices of her wreckage provide excellent habitats for lobsters, eels, and octopi.
The wreck has been well treated over the years. There used to be a full set of wrenches (spanners), still visible on the deep part (each wrench being about 4 feet (1.2 m) long and weighing over 100 pounds (45 kg)). In recent decades the largest of these were stolen by a collector, leaving only the smaller wrenches. Also remaining are a few brass portholes and even a silver teaspoon. The remaining wrenches are under 55 feet (17 m) of water. Similarly the wreck features the lucky porthole, a brass porthole in the stern section which survived the storm intact and remains shiny by divers rubbing it for good luck. This porthole is considered lucky because the glass still survives.
The wreck's maximum depth is 85 feet (26 m) of water, and only very small parts of the wreck represent any kind of overhead environment to swim through.
RMs Rhone Dive, Salt Island, BVI
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Snorkeling above the wreck of the Rhone at Salt Island, BVI
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Sea Turtle: RMS Rhone - Salt Island, BVI
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RMS RHONE - THE WRECK OF THE RHONE - BRITISH VIRGIN? ISLANDS
RMS RHONE - THE WRECK OF THE RHONE - BRITISH VIRGIN? ISLANDS
RMS Rhone was a British packet ship owned by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSP). She was wrecked off the coast of Salt Island in the British Virgin Islands on 29 October 1867 in a hurricane, killing 300 people. 22 Survived
Jan 15, 2015
SCUBA Dive - Bow Section of the RMS Rhone - Salt Island, BVIs
Ingressing the bow section of the RMS Rhone, which is in 85 feet of water off the southwest coast of Salt Island in the British Virgin Islands.
Shot on a Canon S110 inside a WP-DC47 case while on a trip aboard S/V Free Ingwe in January of 2018.
SCUBA Dive - Bow Section of the RMS Rhone - Salt Island, BVIs
Swimming freely in the bow section of the RMS Rhone, which is in 85 feet of water off the southwest coast of Salt Island in the British Virgin Islands.
Shot on a Canon S110 inside a WP-DC47 case while on a trip aboard S/V Free Ingwe in January of 2018.
Snorkeling Salt Island and the Wreck of the RMS Rhone
Snorkeling around the RMS Rhone in the British Virgin Islands.
Danny's Dive on 4/20/16 in Salt Island, BVI (HMS Rhone ship wreck)
Music: Ziggy Marley - Beach in Hawaii
Diving the wreck of the RMS Rhone on Salt Island, BVI.
Diving the 1867 wreck of the RMS Rhone, torn apart by a hurricane, watery grave to 123 souls. Located off Salt Island in the BVI, this wreck is now home to corals, turtles, Sharks and an incredibly strong current.