This is the information page about the shipwreck Arisan, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 62 23.912 N,5 31.532 E (62.183333333333, 5.6666666666667)

The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English 🇬🇧, as they are prepared by the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) based on data from UKHO and the hydrographic services of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, among others. They include the known details of the wreck and the comments of the cartographers who have checked the position and condition of the wreck over time.

Name: ARISAN

Length 273.1 meter, width: 44.2 meter, draught: 16.2, tonnage 75361 ton
Load: ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined,ore

Cause: 15.1.92 built in 1974 by kawasaki heavy industries ltd, kobe. owned at time of loss by first line corporation. passage narvik for rotterdam. drifted aground in heavy weather after sustaining an engine breakdown and complete blackout. severly cracked across the hull and abandoned. vessel had sunk by 15.1.92. (msd).

Year of registration: 1992

Water depth above wreck: 15 meter

Known since: 1992, last detected: 2021

Details measurements/cartography: HH308/350/02 31.1.92 HARD AGROUND IN 622500N, 053200E, APPROX, OFF RUNDE. HULL CRACKED AND VESSEL LIKELY TO BREAK IN TWO. (LL, 14, 15.1.92). NCA YET. HH308/350/02 3.3.92 STUATION UNCHANGED. VESSEL LIKELY TO BE BROKEN UP BY ACTION OF SEA. (LL, 21.2.92). NCA YET. HH308/350/02 11.3.92 FOR'D PART OF VESSEL NOW SUNK. AFTER PART STABILISED IN GROUNDING POSN. (LL, 27.2.92). AWAIT FURTHER. HH308/350/02 17.3.92 ONLY SMALL PART OF VESSEL'S STARBOARD SIDE AND STERN CAN NOW BE SEEN. (LL, 12.3.92). NCA YET. HH308/350/02 30.3.92 WK CAN NO LONGER BE SEEN. LARGE QUANTITIES OF WRECKAGE. (LL, 18.3.92). HH310/480/01 3.8.92 WK LIES IN 622356N, 053139E, OR 243DEGS, 3550MTRS FROM RUNDE LT. PARTS OF THE WRECK ARE OBSERVED WITHIN THE FOLLOWING POSNS: 622348N - 622412N, 053100E - 053212E. (NORWEGIAN NM 994/92). INS AS DW IN 622356N, 053139E.

- NM 2423/92. HH310/480/02 21.12.93 NDW SHOWN IN 622356N, 053138E WITH WRECKAGE LIMITS IN POSN: 622411.4N - 622352.2N & 053057.6E - 053212E ON NORWEGIAN 30 [1993 EDN, CORR TO 1.11.93].

- NM ACTION. SEP 2009/000014010 2.3.09 SHOWN AS DW IN 6223.912N, 0531.532E [WGD] ON NORWEGIAN 30 [CORR TO 18/08, 1:50,000]. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: SEE [73212] FOR AREA OF WRECKAGE

Position: 62 23.912 N,5 31.532 E

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