Bishop Upright


Local Name:

Bishop Upright

Depth:

About 50 feet.

Anchoring:

As of 1/20/2006 there is a buoy on this wreck. Use the tag line that should be attached to the surface float as your first tie point. I'd recommend dropping an anchor very close to the sub-surface buoy and letting out a little slack. After rolling in, secure the anchor in the wreck as a backup. Just be sure to free the anchor before ascending!

Location:

Latitude Longitude
Degrees Minutes Seconds Degrees Minutes Seconds
8 43 48.660 167 43 20.880
8 43.81100 --------- 167 43.34800 ---------
8.73018 --------- --------- 167.72246 --------- ---------

Notes:

This wreck was discovered by Jim Bishop. Jim got very lucky that day and also discovered Bishop Inverted which is just a few feet away and easily seen from this wreck.

Photos:

Here's a shot of the bow. You can just barely see Blair Barnett posing in the middle of the front ramp.
Here's a little closer shot of Blair. Now we can see the Coke bottles that he picked up on the way here. This area is famous for bottles. Blair looked up the book value on these bottles and tells me that we are going to be Millionaires! We just need 2 million bottles!
I thought this was interesting. After all these years the glass on the guages is still intact.
Here's Blair standing on what I guess is part of the wheelhouse that has landed in the hold.

Nearby Attractions:


A few words of caution are due here!

While I believe that this data is fairly accurate, one must apply some common sense when using this data. If the point of origin is a coral head, you may have anchored at a slightly different spot than I did and your bearing to the next attraction could be slightly different than mine. I suggest checking with your own GPS before rolling in!

Also, know roughly how fast you swim so that you know approximately how long it should take to reach the next attraction. You can (and likely will) miss things from time-to-time and you should know when to abort and turn around before you are too far from your boat.

I strongly urge you to try the shorter swims first and build your navigation skills. I have set the cutoff distance for this table to 750 feet, but that is a considerable challenge even for the best navigators. An error of more than a few degrees in poor visibility and you can easily miss your destination at the extreme ranges!

From: Bishop Upright
AttractionDistance (feet)Bearing (deg mag)
MAR Fill Coral Head 614 157
Fischer Rubble Wreck #1 533 87
Phu Maru 710 245
GBR Rubble Wreck #2 365 266
Curry/Zurick LCM 728 311
Hamel/Bishop Inverted 310 200
Bishop Inverted 44 237



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Created by Dave Fortin

Tue May 21 07:06:56 UTC 2013