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Now a recreational dive site; USS LST-507 – US Tank landing ship sunk off the south coast of England, now a dive site; HMS M2 – Royal Navy submarine monitor wrecked in Lyme Bay; SS Maine – British ship sunk in 1917 near Dartmouth, Devon. Now a recreational dive site; SS Maloja – UK registered passenger steamship sunk by a mine off Dover
The Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Michigan off the coast of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.It protects 38 known historically significant shipwrecks ranging from the 19th-century wooden schooners to 20th-century steel-hulled steamers, as well as an estimated 60 undiscovered shipwrecks.
Penetration diving, where the diver enters a shipwreck, is an activity exposing the diver to hazards of getting lost, entrapment and consequently running out of breathing gas. Management of these risks requires special skills and equipment. [6] Many attractive or well preserved wrecks are in deeper water requiring deep diving precautions ...
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The preserve has good visibility and offers deep water diving on a variety of shipwrecks. The preserve is one of the last places in the Great Lakes to observe shipwrecks without zebra mussel encrustation. [13] Dry suits are recommended due to cold temperatures and unprotected coves or bays. Most of the dive sites are deep and divers must be ...
For this reason, the Manitou Passage Underwater Preserve is rich in Lake freighter wrecks of all kinds. There are 33 recreational diving sites in the Manitou Preserve, almost all of which are also within the boundary of the National Lakeshore. The sites include shipwrecks and maritime-related facilities such as old docks. Popular dive sites ...
It lies in approximately 100 feet (30 m) of water and at 240 feet (73 m) in length provides ample scope for exploration. However, relatively little of the wreck involves penetration diving . The Hilma Hooker is regarded as one of the leading wreck diving sites in the Caribbean, according to Scuba Diving Travel Magazine .
The 40-foot-long wreck, which sits under just 6 feet of water, likely sank sometime around the fourth century A.D., making it about 1,700 years old.