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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.
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.
List of shipwrecks: unknown date Ship State Description Unknown submarine People's Liberation Army Navy: A new Type 041, NATO designation Zhou-class attack submarine, sank in dock on the Yangtze River at the Wuchang Shipyard near Wuhan, China. The ship was observed fitting out in late May and crane barges arrived in early June to attempt salvage.
Wrecks may present a variety of site-specific hazards to divers. Wrecks are often fouled by fishing lines or nets and the structure may be fragile and break without notice. 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.
The locations of three boats used in the Dunkirk evacuation in the Second World War have been uncovered for the first time by a detailed survey of 30 shipwrecks off the French coast.
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 Vamar is a shipwreck (which sank on March 21, 1942) near Mexico Beach, Florida, United States. [2] It is located 3.7 miles offshore from Mexico Beach. It became the ninth Florida Underwater Archaeological Preserve when it was dedicated in 2004. [2] On April 10, 2006, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. [3]