SA Moorings Program

South Australian Moorings Program to Protect Sensitive Marine Sites
Orange Buoys
Yellow Buoys

Gulf St Vincent Sites

South Australian Moorings Program to Protect Sensitive Marine Sites

Mooring buoys, fitted with a yellow St Andrews Cross topmark and a flashing light, have been installed at the shipwreck sites listed below. Mooring bridles are fitted to each buoy to facilitate recreational and charter vessels up to12 metres length or 15 tonnes displacement (maximum wind speed 20 knots). Only one vessel can make fast at any one time. Caution should be used in the vicinity of all buoys due to wreck and reef hazards and strong tides. Coordinates for the buoys are in GPS datum-WGS 84.

Orange Buoys

Orange buoys, with a yellow St Andrews Cross and a flashing white light every 5 seconds, have been installed at:

Wardang Island Wrecks

Star of Greece wrecksite, Port Willunga

Songvaar
Investigator
Australian
MacIntyre
Moorara

Kangaroo Island

Portland Maru

Mooring at Zanoni wrecksite

Yellow Buoys

Yellow buoys, with a yellow St Andrews Cross and a flashing amber light every 4 seconds, have been installed at:

Gulf St Vincent Sites

Zanoni
Ardrossan Barge

See South Australian Wreck Location Map (Image supplied by Channel 10)

Wardang Island Sites

Songvaar	Lat. 34 degrees 27 mins 34.8 secs South Long. 137 degrees 23 mins 15.8 secs East
15 metres from wreck on the north-east side. Water depth 8 metres. The buoy can be approached from all directions. The site can be affected by strong flood and ebb tides.

Investigator	Lat. 34 degrees 31 mins 36.5 secs South Long. 137 degrees 20 mins 05.0 secs East
15 metres from wreck on the north-west side. Water depth 5 metres. Generally approach the buoy from the northwest Depending on tides some sections of the wreck are elevated to just below the water surface. The site can be affected by large swells and waves breaking over the wreck and reef, as well as by strong flood and ebb tides.

Australian	Lat. 34 degrees 32 mins 04.3 secs South Long. 137 degrees 21 mins 51.9 secs East
15 metres from wreck on the south-east side. Water depth 8 metres. Generally approach the buoy from the southeast Site can be affected by large swells and waves breaking over reef and rocks.

MacIntyre	Lat. 34 degrees 32 mins 04.8 secs South Long. 137 degrees 21 mins 59.0 secs East.
10 metres from wreck on the northeast side. Water depth 8 metres. Generally approach the buoy from the northeast Depending on tides the reef and bow sections of the wreck are lying in less than 2 metres of water. Site can be affected by large swells and waves breaking over reef.

Moorara	Lat. 34 degrees 28 mins 40.0 secs South Long. 137 degrees 23 mins 03.0 secs East
10 metres from wreck on the east side. Water depth 4 metres. Generally approach the buoy from the east. Depending on tides some sections of the wreck are elevated to just under the water surface.

Kangaroo Island Site

Portland Maru	Lat. 35 degrees 43 mins 45.1 secs South Long. 136 degrees 42 mins 33.3 secs East
40 metres from wreck on the east side. Water depth 15 metres. The buoy can be approached from all directions.

Gulf St Vincent Sites

Norma	Lat. 34 degrees 49 mins 17.3 secs South Long. 138 degrees 25 mins 04.2 secs East
20 metres from wreck on the west side. Water depth 14 metres. The buoy can be approached from all directions. The site can be affected by strong flood and ebb tides.

Star of Greece	Lat. 35 degrees 15 mins 08.6 secs South Long. 138 degrees 27 mins 33.7 secs East
30 metres from wreck on the west side. Water depth 5 metres. Generally approach the buoy from the west. Depending on tides some sections of the wreck are lying in 3 metres of water and are elevated to just under the water surface and sometimes expose at low tides. Site can be affected by large swells and breaking waves.

Zanoni	Lat. 34 degrees 30 mins 42.4 secs South Long. 138 degrees 03 mins 49.4 secs East
A Protected Zone having a 550 metres radius from the buoy is in force under Section 7(1) of the Historic Shipwrecks Act 1981. Entry to the Protected Zone is prohibited without a permit issued by Heritage SA. Water depth 18 metres. The site can be affected by strong flood and ebb tides

Ardrossan Barge	Lat. 34 degrees 31mins 50.9 secs South Long. 138 degrees 03 mins 43.3 secs East
20 metres from wreck on the east side. Water depth 16 metres. The buoy can be approached from all directions. The site can be affected by strong flood and ebb tides.


	This page was last modified 2006-07-01