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The sinking of MV Conception occurred on September 2, 2019, after the 75-foot (23 m) dive boat caught fire and eventually sank off the coast of Santa Cruz Island, California, United States, killing 34 of the 39 aboard. The boat was anchored overnight at Platts Harbor, a small undeveloped bay on the island's north shore, when a fire broke out on ...
On 25 January 1998, the Lonergans were scuba diving with a group at St. Crispin's Reef [7] in Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The boat transporting the group to the dive site departed before the Lonergans returned from the water. None of the vessel's crew or passengers noticed that the two had not returned to the boat. [8]
A few years later, at a depth of 400 feet (120 m), he was the first diver to use rebreather diving technology on the wreck of HMHS Britannic, near the island of Kea in Greece. In 2006, Chatterton re-visited the wreck of Britannic in the History Channel documentary Titanic's Tragic Sister , to try to find out what sank the third Olympic-class ...
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.
Bill Nagle was one of the earliest divers to dive regularly beyond diver training agency specified depth limits for safe deep diving (normally 130 feet in sea water). [citation needed] Nagle regularly dived to greater depths, and engaged in hazardous shipwreck penetration, often on previously unexplored shipwrecks.
Sea Base, formerly known as Florida National High Adventure Sea Base, is a high adventure program base run by Scouting America in the Florida Keys.Its counterparts are Philmont Scout Ranch in northern New Mexico, the Northern Tier National High Adventure Bases in Ely, Minnesota, as well as Manitoba and Ontario in Canada, and Summit Bechtel Reserve near the New River Gorge National Park in ...
In 1981, the submersible was refitted with a titanium personnel hull to dive to 20,000 ft (6,100 m). [1] With the refit of DSV-4, the bathyscaphe DSV-1 (formerly known as Trieste II) was retired from service. In 1985 the Sea Cliff made a record dive for this vessel type by diving 20,000 feet off Guatemala's Pacific Coast. [2]
A shipwreck may be attractive to divers for several reasons: it serves as an artificial reef, which creates a habitat for many types of marine life [3]; it often is a large structure with many interesting parts and machinery, which is not normally accessible to casual observers on working, floating vessels [3]