HMAS Hobart
- Locations Hobart, Tasmania
- Client SA TOURISM
- Contract Insert Contract Here
- Cost $1.8 MILLION
- Duration December 2010 - June 2011
During the dark days of the Vietnam War, the soldiers knew her as the Green Ghost, but 30 years on, the guided missile destroyer HMAS Hobart is now the jewel of Australian diving wrecks.
McMahon Services were contracted by Tourism SA to prepare the vessel for scuttling. This was an enormous task - stripping a fully operational war ship into a virtual skeleton, and all environmental hazards required total removal.
We had to work on ways to make the vessel do what it was never designed to do...sink. The vessel was littered with specially cut holes to let water in and air out, when it was scuttled. The crews main task was to widen bulkheads and clearing pathways through the vessel so as divers had enough room to maneuver through safe thoroughfares.
