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A list of shipwrecks of Gibraltar. The vast majority of the shipwrecks are located near the west coast in or just outside the Gibraltar harbour area within the Bay of Gibraltar . In addition to the ships there are other items of interest on the seabed in the vicinity.
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
List of shipwrecks: 5 October 2024 Ship State Description HMNZS Manawanui Royal New Zealand Navy: The dive and survey vessel ran aground on a reef near the southern coast of Upolu, Samoa. The crew abandoned ship in liferafts. She caught fire, capsized and sank on 6 October. [185] [186]
A commercial steamboat that caught fire and sank in the Tombigbee River, and subsequently entered Alabama folklore as a ghost ship. [ 2 ] 32°14′37″N 88°00′45″W / 32.24359°N 88.01238°W / 32.24359; -88.01238 ( Eliza
List of shipwrecks of Cornwall; List of shipwrecks of Cornwall (19th century) List of shipwrecks of Cornwall (20th century) List of shipwrecks of Cornwall (1861–1870) List of shipwrecks of Cornwall (1881–1890) List of shipwrecks of the Seven Stones Reef; MV Lizzonia; USS LST-6; LT Cortesia
MS Zenobia was a Swedish-built Challenger-class RO-RO ferry launched in 1979 that capsized and sank in the Mediterranean Sea, close to Larnaca, Cyprus, in June 1980. [1] [4] She now rests on her port side in approximately 42 meters (138 ft) of water and was named by The Times, and many others, as one of the top ten wreck diving sites in the world.
For the record: 10:36 a.m. Dec. 22, 2022: An earlier headline on this story said 33 people died in the boat fire.The Conception boat fire killed 34. Following the horrific Conception boat fire in ...
Professional divers, when diving on a shipwreck, generally refer to the specific task, such as salvage work, accident investigation or archaeological survey. Although most wreck dive sites are at shipwrecks, there is an increasing trend to scuttle retired ships to create artificial reef sites .