E44 - Diving Australia's Most Remote Shipwreck, RMS Quetta, Cape York Australia

After waiting several days at Pioneer Bay, Albany Island at the top of Cape York Australia, we get a weather window to dive the RMS Quetta shipwreck. This is such an isolated location, almost a thousand kilometres by air from the nearest real city and approximately 600 kilometres from the last real town Cooktown, as such the wreck rarely gets dived. It is subject to very strong tidal currents and requires careful planning to execute a safe dive. The RMS Quetta sunk on the 28th February 1890 after leaving Cooktown destined for Thursday Island, hitting an uncharted rock in the middle of the channel near Albany Island at 9:14pm. The Quetta sunk rapidly within 5 minutes and sending 134 of her 292 passengers and crew, to their deaths.