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Bare granite slabs above a sheltered bay, with red wooden huts, a jetty and moored sailing yachts among wooded islands — Planet, Åland Islands

Åland Islands · Finland · Wreck

Planet

Sheltered schooner wreck in the Rödhamn archipelago, out of the wind

Photo: Håkan Skogsjö · CC BY-SA 4.0

The Planet was a wooden-hulled, two-masted schooner about 25 m long, built in 1898 on Ösel and registered to Parainen in the Finnish archipelago. It sank in the Rödhamn archipelago in 1922 and now lies at a very sheltered spot on the seabed.

Where it is and how deep

Depth profile of Planet: typical dive to 15 m (to 50 ft) 18 m · Open Water30 m · Advanced40 m · Recreational limit15 mtypical dive
Depths on a shared scale to 40 m (130 ft); dashed lines mark common certification limits.

59.9855° N, 20.1026° EApproximate position — the dashed circle shows where the site lies; your operator's briefing has the mooring.

The dive

The Planet rests on a clay seabed in the Rödhamn archipelago, its deepest point at 15 m. The site is protected from the wind, but the clay bottom can cut the visibility around the schooner. Many details survive, among them the wooden anchor windlass, the ship's railings and the decking, where the mast holes are still visible.

The wreck

Vessel
Planet
Type
Two-masted wooden schooner
Length
25 m (82 ft)
Built
1898
Sunk
1922
Cause
Not recorded
Lies
On a sheltered clay seabed in the Rödhamn archipelago, at no more than 15 m

Marine life and season

The sources we used don't single out particular species here.

Month-by-month season rating for Planet
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Season follows Åland Islands: Boats run from May to mid-September, with August the warmest month; nothing runs from October to April.

Know before you go

  • The clay seabed around the wreck can leave visibility poor, especially once it is disturbed.

Sources

  1. Wrecks of Åland — The Baltic Sea (itameri.fi)
  2. OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap

Photo credits

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