| Waa Wreck - The H.M.S Hildasay: "H.M.S Hildasay" and her sister ship "H.M.S Shapinsay" were armed steam trawlers based at Mombasa and allocated to the Kenya Royal Navy volunteer reserve in the latter part of World War II. Built in 1941 these two vessels had been used as mine sweepers off the East African coast. On June 21, 1945 H.M.S Hildasay was summoned to the assistance of her sister ship in difficulty while towing lighter vessel from Tanga to Mombasa. In the struggle to keep the other two vessels off the reef, H.M.S Hildasay ran aground and became a total loss. Captain "Pip" Wilkinson and his crew were all rescued. Today one can occasionally boiler lying on the reef amid the pounding surf. Part of the bridge superstructure was later washed ashore and built into a house on Sand Island overlooking the site. “Mission Apachy Down”Nyuki (“bee”) a 5 seater Piper Apache160 was built in 1962 and decommissioned in 1987. The plane was sunk by Diving The Crab as a third artificial reef on the 21st of March 2004. She lies on a small table reef 35 meters deep; this is an incredible dive site for experienced divers. Repetitive dives on Nyuki revealed that the plane has a wealth of marine life in the form of Lion fish, ten observed on the second day after she was sunk, schools of glass fish and Barracuda. The variety and sheer volume of fish that have inhabited the wreck always makes for an incredible dive, not to mention the resident Moray Eels, Giant Rays and Whale Sharks which feature regularly.
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| MFV Alpha Funguo - MV Alpha Funguo MFV Alpha Funguo, a 44.5-meter steel tuna long line fishing vessel with a gross tonnage of 385 tons was built in 1980 at Donghae Shipbuilding yard in Ulsan, South Korea. She arrived in Mombasa by sea from South Korea in March 1980 where she started long lining for tuna along the East African coastline generally within a 200-mile radius of Mombasa. In June 1997 she ran aground, after a fire, on a reef just outside the harbour of mombasa at shelly Beach. Southern Engineering Co. LTD. then salvaged her bring her into the harbour. She then sat in dock till Diving The Crab and Dream Diving bought her in 2001 for use as an artificial reef. On the 21st of February, her 22nd birthday, and after being thoroughly cleaned of oil and fiberglass, MFV Alpha Funguo became the first artificial reef to be created for the purpose of diving tourism on the Kenyan Coast. MFV Alpha Funguo was sunk adjacent to a small isolated reef only 50 meters from the main barrier reef. The small reef had very little life apart from the coral and a few odd hangers around. It was hopped that with the addition of the artificial reef, the amount and variety of life would increase. Arriving with MFV Funguo from the Mombasa Harbor were a small school of Sergeant Major's. These were not known to exist south of Mombasa Island. Their numbers have now increased and are a common sight around the anchor line and have been known to accompany divers during the ascent and decent. In one year we witnessed a huge increase in life, not only on the wreck it's self but also on the nearby reef and the surrounding sandy floor. Polyps of soft coral are growing and we have seen the wreck used as a nursery for a school of baby barracuda that are now almost adult size. They are still using the wreck for shelter. There are resident schools of batfish, glassfish and sweetlips. The Ocean's loners are also well represented with lobsters, lionfish, and nudibracs. There are a whole host of exciting critters arriving, passing by or moving on daily.
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