SS Lusitania

The dive site SS Lusitania or just The Lusi is a historical wreck at the reef Bellows Rock in the offshore area of the Cape Peninsula just outside False Bay, near Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The wreck of the Lusitania is considered by many Cape Town divers to be one of the top wreck dives of the region. It is fairly deep, the wreck is quite broken up, but still interesting, with a number of identifiable components, and the visibility is often quite good. Bellows Rock is a huge granite outcrop, probably about 200 m north to south, and over 100 m east to west, over 40 m high, and is probably part of the Cape Peninsula pluton. The top of the reef is exposed by swells, and breaks even in very low swell. The exposed section is very small compared to the extent of the massive bulk of the rock.