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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 .
The sinking of MV Conception occurred on September 2, 2019, when the 75-foot (23 m) dive boat caught fire and eventually sank off the coast of Santa Cruz Island, California, United States. The boat was anchored overnight at Platts Harbor, a small undeveloped bay on the island's north shore, with 33 passengers and 1 crew member asleep below ...
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 ...
The reef is a navigation hazard because it projects into the shipping channel, as evidenced by (at least) four shipwrecks. This includes the SS Carnatic (1896), [1] Kimon M (1978), Chrisoula K (1981) [2] and Giannis D (1983). [3] The reef and the wrecks are popular for scuba diving; four of the wrecks are at a depth of more than 30 metres (98 ...
Unable to launch a lifeboat because of the surrounding ice, the crew were forced to leap for safety onto the ice floes, the ice boat sinking shortly thereafter, at about 6 am. USNS Mission San Francisco United States: 7 March 1957 A fleet oil tanker, collided with the Liberian freighter Elna II while passing New Castle, caught fire and exploded ...
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]
Fifi shipwreck. Fifi is a submerged tugboat shipwreck located approximately 8 km (5 mi) east of Al-Bander resort in Bahrain. [1] The vessel caught fire and sank in the early 1980s. The ship was owned by Shaheen Bin Saqer bin Shaheen, founder of Awalco Marine. It was named after his only daughter, who was better known as Fifi. [2]