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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
Explosives detonating to sink the former HMNZS Wellington in 2005. Sinking ships for wreck diving sites is the practice of scuttling old ships to produce artificial reefs suitable for wreck diving, to benefit from commercial revenues from recreational diving of the shipwreck, or to produce a diver training site.
The Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Ontario off the coast of the U.S. state of New York.It protects 41 known historically significant shipwrecks spanning 200 years of American maritime history, as well as 19 potential shipwreck sites.
Professional divers, when diving on a shipwreck, generally refer to the specific task, such as salvage work, accident investigation or archaeological survey. Although most wreck dive sites are at shipwrecks, there is an increasing trend to scuttle retired ships to create artificial reef sites.
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 certain of their ability and their equipment before they attempt to dive in this preserve. [14]
Fujikawa Maru is regarded as the best scuba diving site in Chuuk Lagoon by both of the principal authors who have undertaken comprehensive surveys of the lagoon, Dan E. Bailey [2] and Klaus Lindemann. Amongst the more striking features on the wreck are at least nine disassembled Mitsubishi fighter aircraft in one of the forward holds.
Trevor Jackson returning from a dive on SS Kyogle. Captain Trevor Jackson (born 26 November 1965) is an Australian technical diver, shipwreck researcher, author and inventor.In 2002 he staged what became known as the "Centaur Dive", which subsequently led to the gazetted position of the sunken Hospital Ship AHS Centaur being questioned.
2 Dive site. 3 References. Toggle References subsection. ... The Hilma Hooker is a shipwreck in Bonaire in the Caribbean Netherlands. It is a popular wreck diving site.