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HMS Port Napier – British World War II auxiliary minesweeper that caught fire and exploded; Preußen – German steel-hulled five-masted ship-rigged windjammer sunk in Crab Bay after a collision; SS Radaas – Ship sunk in 1917 near Portland Bill, now a dive site; SS Rondo – Ship sunk in Sound of Mull in 1935, now a recreational dive site
The list of shipwrecks in 2024 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 2024. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
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. [3]
The environment of wreck diving is sunken shipwrecks and other vehicles and structures, either sunk by misfortune, acts of war, or intentionally, as targets in military exercises, to serve as artificial reefs, or as recreational dive sites for the diving tourism industry. Wrecks sunk as tourist dive sites are usually cleaned up and have many ...
List of shipwrecks of Cornwall; List of shipwrecks of Cornwall (19th century) List of shipwrecks of Cornwall (20th century) List of shipwrecks of Cornwall (1861–1870) List of shipwrecks of Cornwall (1881–1890) List of shipwrecks of the Seven Stones Reef; MV Lizzonia; USS LST-6; LT Cortesia
The wreck has been a popular dive site for many years. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] James Eagan Layne is situated 540 metres (1,770 ft) east of the wreck of HMS Scylla - in 22m of water with her bows at 50°19.602′N 4°14.714′W / 50.326700°N 4.245233°W / 50.326700; -4.245233
For the record: 10:36 a.m. Dec. 22, 2022: An earlier headline on this story said 33 people died in the boat fire.The Conception boat fire killed 34. Following the horrific Conception boat fire in ...
MS Zenobia was a Swedish-built Challenger-class RO-RO ferry launched in 1979 that capsized and sank in the Mediterranean Sea, close to Larnaca, Cyprus, in June 1980. [1] [4] She now rests on her port side in approximately 42 meters (138 ft) of water and was named by The Times, and many others, as one of the top ten wreck diving sites in the world.