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2. Tangalooma, Queensland - Wikipedia

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   Aerial view of the wrecks. Located to the north of Tangalooma Island Resort is a total of 15 vessels that were deliberately scuttled between the 1960s through to the 1980s. These wrecks have now become a man-made ecosystem providing a haven for local marine life including dolphins, sea turtles, wobbegongs and over 200 species of fish.

3. 11 of the World's Most Amazing Shipwrecks - AOL

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   Just off the coast of Brisbane, the Tangalooma Wrecks on Moreton Island are a hidden gem for adventure seekers. This site features 15 ships that were deliberately sunk in the 1960s and 1970s to ...

4. The sunken ships of Moreton Island - AOL

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   Just off the coast of Queensland, Australia is Moreton Island, the third largest sand island in the world and home to the amazing Tangalooma Wrecks site. In 1963, a group of boat owners asked that ...

5. Moreton Bay - Wikipedia

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   Commercial tour operators offer whale watching cruises between June and September each year. [40] Most of larger cetaceans observed in the bay are humpbacks, and several smaller dolphins live or regularly visit the bay. The Moreton Bay bug (Thenus orientalis) is a species of slipper lobster found throughout the waters of Australia's north coast ...

6. Ship graveyard - Wikipedia

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   Tangalooma Wrecks near Moreton Island, Queensland, Australia. A ship graveyard, ship cemetery or breaking yard is a location where the hulls of scrapped ships are left to decay and disintegrate, or left in reserve.

7. How investigators, prosecutors bungled probe of boat crash ...

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   The day after the crash, 61 empty bottles and cans were found by investigators on the boat. And the night of the crash, blood alcohol results from Katy Puig's toxicology report showed her blood ...

8. Tourism in Brisbane - Wikipedia

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   These wrecks provide some of the best diving and snorkeling on the east coast of Australia. [42] Tangalooma can be accessed via a 75 minute boat ride [43] from the Brisbane River with Tangalooma Island Resort operating 4 passenger ferries per day departing Pinkenba. [44]

9. Moreton Island - Wikipedia

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   Between 1952 and 1962, Tangalooma, on the western side of the island, was the site of Queensland's only whaling station, with humpback whales being harvested on their annual migration north. Each season up to 600 whales were processed with a maximum of 11 whales per day. [9] The site of the whaling station is now the Tangalooma Island Resort.