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Yongala","title":"Title",":type":"text/plain","multiValue":false},"content":{"dataType":"string","value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EOne of Australia’s worst peacetime maritime disasters created one of the \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://blog.queensland.com/2013/02/22/best-diving-in-the-world/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003Eworld’s most renowned underwater tourist attractions\u003C/a\u003E. But just how did the \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.queensland.com/attraction/ss-yongala-dive-site\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003ES.S. \u003C/a\u003E\u003C/em\u003E\u003C/span\u003E\u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.queensland.com/attraction/ss-yongala-dive-site\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EYongala\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/i\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003E end up 25m underwater off \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.queensland.com/explore-queensland/townsville-north-queensland\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003ETownsville\u003C/a\u003E?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EOn the evening of 23 March 1911, Captain William Knight, one of the most capable and experienced captains then working the busy Australian coastal route aboard a stout and the well-maintained vessel, sailed past the lighthouse on Dent Island in the Whitsunday Passage and was never seen again.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EHere are 10 things we bet you never knew about Australia’s own Titanic. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Ch2\u003E1. She may have been English but she was named after an Aussie\u003C/h2\u003E\n\u003Cdiv id=\"attachment_48013\" style=\"width: 701px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"\u003E\u003Cimg aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48013\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48013\" src=\"https://blog.queensland.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ship-yongala-historic-rsz-704149.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"691\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https://blog.queensland.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ship-yongala-historic-rsz-704149.jpg 691w, https://blog.queensland.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ship-yongala-historic-rsz-704149-300x200.jpg 300w, https://blog.queensland.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ship-yongala-historic-rsz-704149-335x223.jpg 335w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" /\u003E\u003Cp id=\"caption-attachment-48013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"\u003EPhoto courtesy of \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.queensland.com/en-eu/tour/yongala-dive\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003EYongala Dive\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003C/div\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ELaunched in Newcastle, England, in 1903, the 3700 ton S.S. Yongala was named after the tiny South Australian pastoral town of the same name.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Ch2\u003E2. Had the postie been more prompt, disaster may have been avoided\u003C/h2\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EAs the eight-year-old S.S. \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EYongala\u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003E steamed leisurely out of \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.queensland.com/explore-queensland/the-mackay-region\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003EMackay\u003C/a\u003E, aboard were 49 passengers, 73 crew, a racehorse named “Moonshine” and a prize bull. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/strong\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EWhat the 14-year veteran master didn’t know was that a cyclone warning had just been received and with her brand new Marconi radio still on its way from England, the frustrated keeper could only watch her sail away. He was the last person to ever see the Yongala.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/strong\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Ch2\u003E3. Some contemporary critics claim the ship was top-heavy\u003C/h2\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47225\" src=\"https://blog.queensland.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/131889-2.jpg\" alt=\"SS Yongola\" width=\"691\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https://blog.queensland.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/131889-2.jpg 691w, https://blog.queensland.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/131889-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https://blog.queensland.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/131889-2-335x223.jpg 335w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" /\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EIn the raging cyclonic seas, a wave or waves broke over her side, immediately filling her with water and sending her quickly to the bottom.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThree days later, concern escalated and Yongala was posted as missing. Every possible vessel was thrown into the search but apart from some debris washed up on the beaches, no trace was ever found and the subsequent inquiry was inconclusive.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Ch2\u003E4. The only body ever to be recovered was Moonshine’s\u003C/h2\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EThe doomed racehorse washed up in a creek three miles south of the \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.queensland.com/attraction/ross-river\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003ERoss River\u003C/a\u003E, near \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.queensland.com/explore-queensland/townsville-north-queensland\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003ETownsville\u003C/a\u003E.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Ch2\u003E5. Sightings of a ghost ship seen sailing between Bowen and Townsville kept public interest going for a few years\u003C/h2\u003E\n\u003Cdiv id=\"attachment_47278\" style=\"width: 701px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"\u003E\u003Cimg aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47278\" src=\"https://blog.queensland.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ss-yongala-5.jpg\" alt=\"SS Yongala \" width=\"691\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https://blog.queensland.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ss-yongala-5.jpg 691w, https://blog.queensland.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ss-yongala-5-300x200.jpg 300w, https://blog.queensland.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ss-yongala-5-335x223.jpg 335w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" /\u003E\u003Cp id=\"caption-attachment-47278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"\u003EPhoto by Adrian Stacey, \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/yongaladive/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003EYongala Dive\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003C/div\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EBut the outbreak of WWI all but erased her from memory.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EDuring WWII, a minesweeper fouled on something 11 miles east of Cape \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EBowling Green and a subsequent postwar search by an RAN survey vessel, \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EHMAS \u003C/span\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ELachlan\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/i\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003E, all but confirmed the \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EYongala’s\u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003E location in around 25m of water. But the Navy did nothing.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/strong\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Ch2\u003E6. In 1958, divers cracked the code\u003C/h2\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EIt wasn’t until 1958 when local skin-divers, Don Macmillan and Noel Cook, brought \u003C/span\u003Eback a steel safe from a wreck that the world was forced to remember the Yongala.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EThe anticlimactic opening revealed only mud, but the safe’s serial number was traced \u003C/span\u003Eback to Chubb in the UK who confirmed it was installed in the purser’s cabin aboard S.S. Yongala in 1903.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Ch2\u003E7. The wreck is now a world-famous dive site attracting some 10,000 divers annually\u003C/h2\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47213\" src=\"https://blog.queensland.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/130714-2.jpg\" alt=\"SS Yongala\" width=\"691\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https://blog.queensland.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/130714-2.jpg 691w, https://blog.queensland.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/130714-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https://blog.queensland.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/130714-2-335x223.jpg 335w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" /\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EThe S.S. Yongala shipwreck is protected by legislation, so divers can only \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://blog.queensland.com/2015/11/03/the-s-s-yongala-my-best-dive-yet-probably/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003Evisit the wreck\u003C/a\u003E with a licensed operator like Yongala Dive\u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003E at Alva Beach near Ayr. It’s at a perfect depth for Open Water Advanced divers, but OW divers can still \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://blog.queensland.com/2015/02/27/best-wreck-dives/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003Eenjoy the experience\u003C/a\u003E at their 18m limit as no penetration of the wreck is permitted.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Ch2\u003E8. Once, divers were confronted by human remains inside the hull\u003C/h2\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EWhich probably explains why, since 1994, divers are prohibited from entering the superstructure.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Ch2\u003E9. A cyclone took her down, then another revealed the next chapter\u003C/h2\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47214\" src=\"https://blog.queensland.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/131903-2.jpg\" alt=\"SS YongolaSS Yongola\" width=\"691\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https://blog.queensland.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/131903-2.jpg 691w, https://blog.queensland.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/131903-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https://blog.queensland.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/131903-2-335x223.jpg 335w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" /\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EIronically, exactly 100 years later as centenary celebrations were being prepared, 2011’s Cyclone Yasi blasted off much of the century’s marine growth, revealing detail and artefacts never seen before. S.S. \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EYongala\u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003E, and her ghostly complement, now await thousands more submarine visitors.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/strong\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Ch2\u003E10. You can get up close to the Yongala on dry land in Townsville\u003C/h2\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EAt the \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.queensland.com/attraction/maritime-museum-of-townsville\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003ETownsville Maritime Museum\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003E artefacts on display include the ship’s bell, glass decklight, ship’s lantern, light fixtures, crockery, bottles and brass items, a letter found in a mail bag on Cassady’s Beach and four farthings retrieved from the only passenger luggage ever found.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EHave you dived the SS Yongala? What’s something you never knew about the shipwreck until you did?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/h2\u003E\n","title":"Content",":type":"text/plain","multiValue":false},"date":{"dataType":"calendar","value":1319033681000,"title":"Date",":type":"calendar","multiValue":false},"date_modified":{"dataType":"calendar","value":1580941500000,"title":"Date Modified",":type":"calendar","multiValue":false},"excerpt":{"dataType":"string","value":"\u003Cp\u003ELike, just how did the SS Yongala end up 25m underwater off Townsville?\u003C/p\u003E\n","title":"Excerpt",":type":"text/plain","multiValue":false},"slug":{"dataType":"string","value":"10-things-you-never-knew-about-ss-yongala","title":"Slug",":type":"text/plain","multiValue":false},"featured_image":{"dataType":"string","value":"/content/dam/teq/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/131890-2-2.jpg","title":"Featured Image",":type":"text/plain","multiValue":false},"post_thumbnail":{"dataType":"string","value":"/content/dam/teq/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/131890-2-2.jpg","title":"Post Thumbnail",":type":"text/plain","multiValue":false}}},"editorial_introducti":{":type":"teq/components/editorial/editorial-introduction"},"editorial_hero_banne":{"title":"Australia’s own Titanic: 10 things you never knew about the S.S. Yongala","layoutVariation":"standardWidth","tag":{"colour":"#ffc54d","text":"Feature"},"breadcrumbItems":[{"active":false,"title":"Home","url":"/content/teq/au/en/home.html"},{"active":false,"title":"Things to Do","url":"/content/teq/au/en/things-to-do.html"},{"active":false,"title":"Outdoor Adventure","url":"/content/teq/au/en/things-to-do/adventure.html"},{"active":false,"title":"Diving and Snorkelling","url":"/content/teq/au/en/things-to-do/adventure/diving-and-snorkelling.html"},{"active":true,"title":"SS Yongala facts","url":"/content/teq/au/en/things-to-do/adventure/diving-and-snorkelling/ss-yongala-facts.html"}],"gallery":{"mediaCollection":[{"mediaType":"image","mediaProps":{"fileFormat":"","sku":"","src":"/content/dam/teq/consumer/global/images/destinations/townsville/blog-images/editorial-hero-banner/2019_TSV_SSYongala_DivingAndSnorkelling_138980.jpg","alt":"SS Yongala | Townsville","title":"SS Yongala","link":null,"mobileSrc":"","attribution":null,"quality":60},"mediaPropsSlide":null}]},":type":"teq/components/editorial/editorial-hero-banner"},"editorialauthor":{"name":"Roderick\t Eime","resourcePath":"/content/teq/au/en/things-to-do/adventure/diving-and-snorkelling/ss-yongala-facts/jcr:content/root/responsivegrid/editorialauthor","publishedDateISO":"2021-02-03T04:35:24.223Z",":type":"teq/components/editorial/editorialauthor","image":{"src":"/home/users/c/cwRHpSvmqyCg9ZSlVaFK/profile.profile.image","alt":"Roderick\t Eime"}},"editorial_description":{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EOne of Australia’s worst peacetime maritime disasters created one of the \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.queensland.com/au/en/things-to-do/adventure/diving-and-snorkelling/the-11-queensland-dive-sites-named-some-of-the-best-in-the-world.html\"\u003Eworld’s most renowned underwater tourist attractions\u003C/a\u003E. But just how did the \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.queensland.com/attraction/ss-yongala-dive-site\"\u003ES.S. \u003C/a\u003E\u003C/i\u003E\u003C/span\u003E\u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.queensland.com/us/en/things-to-do/attractions/p-56b2658caeeeaaf773cf8454-ss-yongala-dive-site\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EYongala\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/i\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003E end up 28m underwater off \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.queensland.com/us/en/places-to-see/destinations/townsville.html\"\u003ETownsville\u003C/a\u003E?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EOn the evening of 23 March 1911, Captain William Knight, one of the most capable and experienced captains then working the busy Australian coastal route, sailed past the lighthouse on Dent Island in the Whitsunday Passage and was never seen again.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EHere are 10 things we bet you never knew about Australia’s own Titanic. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E1. She may have been English but she was named after an Aussie\u003C/h2\u003E\r\n","readMoreHeight":0,"richText":true,":type":"teq/components/editorial/editorial-description"},"image57f649fb-c60d-4dd4-9379-953b9381aa65":{"componentName":"teq/components/image","src":"/content/dam/teq/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ship-yongala-historic-rsz-704149.jpg","fileReference":"/content/dam/teq/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ship-yongala-historic-rsz-704149.jpg","srcUriTemplate":"https://www.queensland.com/au/en/things-to-do/adventure/diving-and-snorkelling/ss-yongala-facts/_jcr_content/root/responsivegrid/image57f649fb-c60d-4dd4-9379-953b9381aa65.coreimg{.width}.jpeg/1589781750498/ship-yongala-historic-rsz-704149.jpeg","uuid":"78f34b42-87d1-43fe-9b83-91ae88e19477","lazyEnabled":false,":type":"teq/components/image"},"text6c2b1385-a109-48f3-99e2-a97fed94e79e":{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ELaunched in Newcastle, England, in 1903, the 3700 tonne S.S. Yongala was named after the tiny South Australian pastoral town of the same name. Yongala means "good water" in the local Ngadjuri language. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E2. Had the postie been more prompt, disaster may have been avoided\u003C/h2\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EAs the eight-year-old S.S. Yongala steamed leisurely out of \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.queensland.com/explore-queensland/the-mackay-region\"\u003EMackay\u003C/a\u003E bound for \u003Ca href=\"https://www.queensland.com/us/en/places-to-see/destinations/cairns-and-great-barrier-reef/cairns.html\"\u003ECairns\u003C/a\u003E, aboard were 49 passengers, 73 crew, a racehorse named Moonshine and a prize bull.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EWhat the 14-year veteran master didn’t know was that a cyclone warning had just been received; and with her brand new Marconi radio still on its way from England, the frustrated lighthouse keeper could only watch her sail away. He was the last person to ever see the Yongala.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E3. Some contemporary critics claim the ship was top-heavy\u003C/h2\u003E\r\n","richText":true,":type":"teq/components/text"},"image67ddab67-3712-4218-8412-89eca270f887":{"componentName":"teq/components/image","src":"/content/dam/teq/consumer/global/images/destinations/townsville/blog-images/2015_TSV_SSYongala_Diving_131904.jpg","fileReference":"/content/dam/teq/consumer/global/images/destinations/townsville/blog-images/2015_TSV_SSYongala_Diving_131904.jpg","alt":"Diving SS Yongala Wreck | Townsville","srcUriTemplate":"https://www.queensland.com/au/en/things-to-do/adventure/diving-and-snorkelling/ss-yongala-facts/_jcr_content/root/responsivegrid/image67ddab67-3712-4218-8412-89eca270f887.coreimg{.width}.jpeg/1596040929708/2015-tsv-ssyongala-diving-131904.jpeg","uuid":"df1dbc43-4725-4270-84b5-e4c926794ed2","lazyEnabled":false,":type":"teq/components/image"},"text83877fc2-006a-4f7b-adff-c29aecb5ee89":{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EIn the raging cyclonic seas, waves broke over her side, immediately filling the Yongala with water and sending her quickly to the bottom.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThree days later, concern escalated and Yongala was posted as missing. Every possible vessel was thrown into the search, but apart from some debris washed up on the beaches, no trace was ever found. It remained one of Australia's biggest maritime mysteries for decades.  \u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E4. The only body ever to be recovered from the wreck was Moonshine’s\u003C/h2\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EThe doomed racehorse washed up in a creek three miles south of the \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.queensland.com/attraction/ross-river\"\u003ERoss River\u003C/a\u003E, near \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.queensland.com/explore-queensland/townsville-north-queensland\"\u003ETownsville\u003C/a\u003E.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E5. Sightings of a ghost ship seen sailing between Bowen and Townsville kept public interest going for a few years\u003C/h2\u003E\r\n","richText":true,":type":"teq/components/text"},"image9cbdb6fa-a80b-4aa8-a827-054233546e42":{"componentName":"teq/components/image","src":"/content/dam/teq/consumer/global/images/destinations/townsville/blog-images/2020_TSV_SSyongala_DivingAndSnorkeling.jpg","fileReference":"/content/dam/teq/consumer/global/images/destinations/townsville/blog-images/2020_TSV_SSyongala_DivingAndSnorkeling.jpg","alt":"SS Yongala","srcUriTemplate":"https://www.queensland.com/au/en/things-to-do/adventure/diving-and-snorkelling/ss-yongala-facts/_jcr_content/root/responsivegrid/image9cbdb6fa-a80b-4aa8-a827-054233546e42.coreimg{.width}.jpeg/1596040993325/2020-tsv-ssyongala-divingandsnorkeling.jpeg","uuid":"81920d7d-938f-4ea5-902b-af5315486ffc","lazyEnabled":false,":type":"teq/components/image"},"text35fc1169-ca63-4df8-99a2-1a1a51f317e7":{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EBut the outbreak of WWI all but erased her from memory.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EDuring WWII, a minesweeper fouled on something 11 miles east of Cape \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EBowling Green. A subsequent postwar search by an Royal Australian Navy survey vessel, HMAS \u003C/span\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ELachlan\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/i\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003E, all but confirmed the Yongala’s location in around 28m of waterr; but no further search was conducted. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E6. Divers cracked the code in 1958\u003C/h2\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EIt wasn’t until 1958 when local skin-divers, Don Macmillan and Noel Cook, brought \u003C/span\u003Eback a steel safe from a wreck that the world was forced to remember the Yongala.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EThe anticlimactic opening revealed only mud, but the safe’s serial number was traced \u003C/span\u003Eback to Chubb in the UK who confirmed it was installed in the purser’s cabin aboard S.S. Yongala in 1903.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E7. The wreck is now a world-famous dive site attracting some 10,000 divers annually\u003C/h2\u003E\r\n","richText":true,":type":"teq/components/text"},"image11b674b9-dd1e-49e8-bfbb-519977018da0":{"componentName":"teq/components/image","src":"/content/dam/teq/consumer/global/images/destinations/townsville/blog-images/2020_TSV_Yongala_DivingAndSnorkelingjpg","fileReference":"/content/dam/teq/consumer/global/images/destinations/townsville/blog-images/2020_TSV_Yongala_DivingAndSnorkelingjpg","alt":"SS Yongala Dive | Townsville","srcUriTemplate":"https://www.queensland.com/au/en/things-to-do/adventure/diving-and-snorkelling/ss-yongala-facts/_jcr_content/root/responsivegrid/image11b674b9-dd1e-49e8-bfbb-519977018da0.coreimg{.width}.jpeg/1596040955650/2020-tsv-yongala-divingandsnorkelingjpg.jpeg","uuid":"f4df6135-d444-426b-aaf6-b88074cf1613","lazyEnabled":false,":type":"teq/components/image"},"text767976f8-5647-46c0-b1b4-7a638c3aef6b":{"text":"\u003Cp\u003ENot just for the history books, the \u003Ca href=\"https://www.queensland.com/us/en/things-to-do/attractions/p-56b2658caeeeaaf773cf8454-ss-yongala-dive-site\"\u003ESS Yongala dive site\u003C/a\u003E is one of the largest, intact shipwrecks in the world (and \u003Ca href=\"https://www.queensland.com/us/en/things-to-do/adventure/diving-and-snorkelling.html\"\u003Eone of Queensland's best\u003C/a\u003E). And it's teeming with marine life like manta rays, eagle rays, turtles and sharks. \u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EIt's so special, that the wreck is protected by legislation, so divers can only visit on day-trips with a licensed operator like \u003Ca href=\"https://www.queensland.com/tour/yongala-dive\"\u003EYongala Dive\u003C/a\u003E near \u003Ca href=\"https://www.queensland.com/destination-information/ayr\"\u003EAyr\u003C/a\u003E. \u003C/span\u003EIt’s at a perfect depth for Open Water Advanced divers, but OW divers can still \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://blog.queensland.com/2015/02/27/best-wreck-dives/\"\u003Eenjoy the experience\u003C/a\u003E at their 18m limit as no penetration of the wreck is permitted.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E8. Divers made a grim discovery\u003C/h2\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003EDivers once were confronted with discovering human remains inside the hull. Which probably explains why divers have been prohibited from entering the superstructure since 1994. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E9. 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