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Hilma Hooker – Shipwreck in Bonaire in the Caribbean Netherlands; SS Hispania – Swedish steamship wrecked in the Sound of Mull, now a dive site; HMS Hood – Royal Sovereign-class battleship of the Royal Navy scuttled in Portland Harbour; SS James Eagan Layne – Liberty ship sunk off Cornwall, now a dive site
On November 6, 1803, the Canadian sloop departed Niagara, Ontario, bound for Kingston, Ontario. She disappeared in a severe storm with the loss of all on board. Wreckage from Washington washed up on the coast of New York near Oswego on November 7. Her wreck, discovered near Oswego in June 2016, is the earliest known shipwreck in the sanctuary ...
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.
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.
Closest shipwreck to the mouth of the Buffalo River: Narragansett: 11 June 1880 A passenger paddle steamer of the Stonington Line that burned and sank on 11 June 1880, after a collision with her sister ship Stonington in heavy fog at 23:30 in Long Island Sound. Approximately 50 passengers, but only one crewman, died. Nisbet Grammer United Kingdom
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List of shipwrecks: 10 November 2024 Ship State Description Ukushima Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force: The 54-metre (177 ft), 510-ton minesweeper caught fire in the engine room 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) off Oshima Island, Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture. She capsized and sank on 11 November.
On April 1, 2011, Griffin Communications took over the operations of News Now 53 from Cox Communications, and both the Oklahoma City and Tulsa area feeds of News Now 53 were reformatted into two separate services: News 9 Now and News on 6 Now; along with the existing cable coverage, both feeds began to be broadcast over-the-air for the first ...