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This is excellent work. I just subscribed to your channel.

Max et al: recall being in the library studying my insane pre med studies..and tired, look for a diversion and saw a Truk book on wrecks..it started my fascination on undersea wrecks..maybe you have a similar story? anyways..the gun footage is incredible..thx for posting your well crafted videos..

The Chinese have raised many of these ships in recent years to recycle/reuse/salvage the metal and steel. They have salvaged HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse almost entirely. The Chinese salvage vessel Chuan Hong 68 is specifically designed for salvage and has desecrated many wrecks for their pre nuclear steel.

When the Nagano Maru was launched in 1917 in Nagasaki, Japan was one of the Western Allies against Germany. Now the ship was a victim of the changing politics and different Alliances between Japan and Germany that used up Japanese people and vital resources.

Your videos are truly amazing. Fantastic job, mate.

Magnificent video

Brilliant. Utterly brilliant

Very good video max

Another brilliant video

Another excellent documentary Max ! I was for many years the master of the Steam Tug Wattle which is equipped with the same chain steering system as the SS Undola. What stands out to me is that the rudder of the wreck is fully at 90 degrees to starboard. This is a compelling clue that the steering chain may have parted as it most unlikely that the rudder could ever be turned to such an extreme angle in normal use.

That is fantastic footage and I remember watch crusto films and so much wanting to experience it myself The best I managed was snorkeling at point peron which was pretty good

Just beautiful, excellent documentary, thank you for those magnificent pictures

Thanks for sharing this Max, we still need to decide if we go to Palau or Truuk lagoon in Feb 2026 this is an awesome wreck, but as mentions in the end, out of reach for us AOW divers.

Yes, she was quite a handsome vessel in many ways for her role, typical of the era and design - love the elliptical stern or counter stern as it was known. A hangover from the sailing ship days along with the clipper bow (not used on the SS Nemesis), but used on many steam ships in day, like the IBERIA involved in the collision. Must have been quite a moving day for the families. Well done on yet another fantastic piece of our rich maritime heritage.

another very nicely done , informative video! thank you, well narrated, historical coverage, etc Recommended. Steve in Arizona, USA

Nice video of such a sad story, I've sailed that coast many times and putting to sea in such a small ship isn't easy , even more so if she wasn't sound .

Gorgeous !

I will have to go find the actual doco hopefully you did one This looks incredible 👍👍

A really good documentary and look at a classical three island tanker. Unusual that she was a motorship as tankers 9f that era has substantial steam plants for cargo handling .

NSW Water Police have had various launches named Nemesis. Is this just a coincidence?

Sydney northern beaches where I grew up have dived on this wreck off whale beach decades ago cant see why they thought it was off off long reef (Collaroy/Narrabeen) but those where different times I guess. but yes diving in the Hawkesbury or at its mouth is at times zero visibility and a black out including tidal inflow or egress from memory , most of my dives there where following anchored buoys to the bottom sometimes in total darkness, gained my PADI cert on those dives and yes it was on tri mix and a very slow accent with decom stops.

Great narration!

So when the deck plate collases won t set of the ammoʻ ?

The sharks attacking the go pro was really neat to watch.

Well researched. Great storytelling.

Well presented, 👍

Thanks Max for this Australian history lesson.

A good reference book is, Wrecks of the New South Wales Coast by Jack Loney. (1993) The book cites more than 1500 wrecks. There’s plenty of wrecks on Newcastle harbour’s oyster bank. They are now part of the breakwall. There’s also plaques in place, explaining the history. I have gathered a lot of information over the years from hand written notes from some of the old timers. Spoken with many early divers. I also have a family member who has done a major amount of lost wreck hunting. I’m looking forward to videos about wrecks a little further north. 👏 Another great video.

Estimated to be doing 1 knot ?? Close to zero. RIP.

Great video Max with all those who searched I wonder if any were close to we’re nemesis was found

Another brilliant video

One of the best yet Max. Thanks alot for sharing this amazing piece of NSW maritime history.

I was born in Bulli, later lived in Newcastle and served in the RAN out of Sydney. In all that time I never learnt about the ships that lie at the bottom of the sea just off the coast of my stomping grounds. Indeed in the Navy I would have sailed over this wreck and many more that you have made videos about and routinely visited places like Nobbys, Catherine Hill Bay, Sandon Point etc. Great videos - very professional and exceptionally informative - great work please give me more.

A really wonderful video. I was a boy at the time and the tragedy made a big impression on me. Even now the name "Birchgrove Park" has a sad and sinister ring to it.

Very nice video/doc! Nicely narrated, great imaging/video, educational, recommended. thank you from Arizona, USA

If memory serves me correctly…Ken Fabian was a foreman on the Sydney waterfront.I remember his face.

I feel so sad for the man’s poor wife and unborn then child who would never know it’s father 😢😢 This is an incredible video cheers max

These Historical Videos are awesome. You should do more. Does anyone know if I can buy or download these somewhere?

Another great video, and i have the book on 60 milers , will have to reread, another lost ship was the Minmi but you cant dive her

Excellent work but very tragic

Thanks Max for a wonderful video that so skilfully intertwined the ship's history, her tragic loss and great images of the wreck today. Another tale of a ship's captain pushing his luck to the peril of all on board. Very sad.

Amazing stuff Max

This was a great video of a tragic sinking. The captain knew that it was a dangerous rust bucket. 😮

Nicely done - thanks!

Another excellent film of a piece of our maritime history. That piece of film of the Captain Cook Pilot vessel slugging through the seas, always makes me sad when I see pics of her in lieu of the fact she wasn't preserved. Back in my 20s I was a volunteer working on the steam tug Waratah down at Blackwattle Bay, in what is now the old Fish Markets. Great days they were with a brilliant band of guys restoring the old girl. I learnt many skills and when I see her on the harbour it makes me proud.

These are great mate! Any chance of some footage of the Valiant?

Thanks Max for posting these vids, Amazing work, I dived the Birchgrove many years ago but the viz was pretty ordinary thz again

Dove this wreck in 2008. Very deep. Cool bow gun. Has a spotting rifle attached to it. The tanks are amazing. But deep. Very deep.

Excellent work. Amazing clarity in the depths

Poor turtle 😢😢