SS Umhlali

The dive site SS Umhlali is an inshore rocky reef with historical wreck in the South Peninsula area on the Atlantic Seaboard of the Cape Peninsula, near Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. S34°16.435' E18°22.487' (somewhere on the wreckage) This site is in the Table Mountain National Park Marine Protected Area since 2004. A permit is required. The site is a moderate to low profile sandstone reef with widely scattered wreckage of a steel ship. The wreckage is heavily encrusted with corallines and other marine growth common in the area and most of the wreckage is very low and not easy to identify. Geology: Ordovician sandstone of the Peninsula formation. The site is exposed to swell and wind waves from the south west and north west, so should be dived in very low swell, and is often good in south easterly winds as long as they are not too strong.