Western Area

Western Area Rural

Sierra Leone

Diemermeer shipwrek is an old Dutch East Indiaman wrecked on the Banana Islands in 1747.

This is Sierra Leone's most impressive dive site and arguably in of West Africa's best dive site. The name is misleading because it is actually not Spanish but a Dutch ship and despite the 29 large cannons on the sea bed the ship was purely a commercial one carrying pottery between Sri Lanka and Java in the 1700s. On its rout back to Europe it sunk off Banana Island leaving all its pottery cargo on the sea bed. 
The visibility on the dive site has to be one of West Africa's best exceeding to 10m on average dive. The currents can be an issue especially at the beginning of the dive but an experience dive guide can make them truly insignificant. The site is 20m ride form Banana-Divers.



Diemermeer shipwreck is also known as Cannons wreck.