Wreck Diving - The Liberty Wreck Tulamben: Photos 63 to 78

It's 6.30am - I'm awake - eyes wide no time for coffee; and I'm heading up to the dive shop, the streets of the sleepy village of Tulamben are quiet - the only sounds are from the ever present cockerels and the hiss of scuba tanks being tested and filled.

Tulamben is famous worldwide to divers as the village where you can shore dive the Liberty wreck. Thirty meters out from the rocky shore and 30m down is the sunken remains of World War II freighter the USAT Liberty. In it's former life nearly 70 years ago - the USAT Liberty was shipping materials to Australia, across the Lombok Straits, torpedoed by a Japanese U-boat and taking on vast quantities of water, the ship was beached on Bali's north shore. An eruption in 1963 left the vessel in it's present location, situated ideally for marine life and divers alike.

Staying in the village means you can get up and dive before breakfast, when the wreck is quieter - before the day trippers from Kuta arrive. Dive some of the also fantastic but less popular sites such as the drop off, during the day - and then mid-afternoon back to

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Nice to see some more great pics Ali. Thanks a lot!

Ali, those photos are awesome.

wow looks like u had an amazing dive on the wreck! I did it once so long ago but I want to do it again looking at ur photos!

wow those jacks are just like mabul!

Waw, complitments on the pics! What a great quality!

Those pics are tempting me to learn how to dive. There seems to be a whole world underwater that I am missing out on.

Great pictures, Ali. Thanks for sharing :)

I can never go diving. I THINK I am scared. So, awesome job! The pics look fantastic. Nice camera, eh! For a min, I really thought you were using a DSLR. But then again, I remember, good photography is not all about the camera.

I remember stumbling down that grotty old beach with a pair of flippers and a mask over ten years ago. I saw a load of old gray wreck, got caught in a tornado of jack - but jack all else - how do you do it? I only wish the elastic umbilical of internet access didn't prevent you from heading way out east from there - where even I, armed with just mask, managed to discover another-under-worldly paradise. One can only imagine what you'd find and document in hyper-color (genuinely an exciting prospect). So anyway, that's the brown-nosing out the way - you seem to be getting more 'hits' than me nowadays, are you sure you're not massaging the figures from the inside?

Yeah, what they said. Great stuff.

A good read somehow reminding me of my own dives around and through that wreck be it over 17 years ago though, oh yeah great photos too!!! Nice choice of words and informative story!!! Hans from Amsterdam, heraclio on this site.

Perhaps your Sis can get some inspiration from the nudinranch for Kitty's wedding dress. (P.S. Kitty's engaged and has asked Ele rto make the dress.) Great Photos as usual! (al l78) Mum & Dad

You have just untempted me to learn to dive Aspiringnomad. One of the reasons I have never bothered so far, is that I assumed that I would need centuries of training and practice before I would see more than ''a load of old gray wreck, got caught in a tornado of jack - but jack all else'' :)

I have a crush on that nudibranch! So cute. Amazing pictures.

Ali you write so beautifully, it took me away for a while back to the adventures of the underwater world........your photos are outstanding and enticing, i feel privileged to be a part of your blog.......as you know my travels have finished...for now, but your writing and images keep the dream alive for me to one day continue the adventures. Enjoy every minute and please, keep sharing it with us. x

The pics are so cool and very clear. I just dived this dive side last week and saw everything same pics that your show.

Nice to see some more great pics Ali. Thanks a lot!

Ali, those photos are awesome.

wow looks like u had an amazing dive on the wreck! I did it once so long ago but I want to do it again looking at ur photos!

wow those jacks are just like mabul!

Waw, complitments on the pics! What a great quality!

Those pics are tempting me to learn how to dive. There seems to be a whole world underwater that I am missing out on.

Great pictures, Ali. Thanks for sharing :)

I can never go diving. I THINK I am scared. So, awesome job! The pics look fantastic. Nice camera, eh! For a min, I really thought you were using a DSLR. But then again, I remember, good photography is not all about the camera.

I remember stumbling down that grotty old beach with a pair of flippers and a mask over ten years ago. I saw a load of old gray wreck, got caught in a tornado of jack - but jack all else - how do you do it? I only wish the elastic umbilical of internet access didn't prevent you from heading way out east from there - where even I, armed with just mask, managed to discover another-under-worldly paradise. One can only imagine what you'd find and document in hyper-color (genuinely an exciting prospect). So anyway, that's the brown-nosing out the way - you seem to be getting more 'hits' than me nowadays, are you sure you're not massaging the figures from the inside?

Yeah, what they said. Great stuff.

A good read somehow reminding me of my own dives around and through that wreck be it over 17 years ago though, oh yeah great photos too!!! Nice choice of words and informative story!!! Hans from Amsterdam, heraclio on this site.

Perhaps your Sis can get some inspiration from the nudinranch for Kitty's wedding dress. (P.S. Kitty's engaged and has asked Ele rto make the dress.) Great Photos as usual! (al l78) Mum & Dad

You have just untempted me to learn to dive Aspiringnomad. One of the reasons I have never bothered so far, is that I assumed that I would need centuries of training and practice before I would see more than ''a load of old gray wreck, got caught in a tornado of jack - but jack all else'' :)

I have a crush on that nudibranch! So cute. Amazing pictures.

Ali you write so beautifully, it took me away for a while back to the adventures of the underwater world........your photos are outstanding and enticing, i feel privileged to be a part of your blog.......as you know my travels have finished...for now, but your writing and images keep the dream alive for me to one day continue the adventures. Enjoy every minute and please, keep sharing it with us. x

The pics are so cool and very clear. I just dived this dive side last week and saw everything same pics that your show.