wreck dives

Dive One of The World’s Best Wrecks, The Umbria in Sudan

June 25, 2010

Strange though it may seem, it’s true that one of the world’s best wreck dive sites is located just off Port Sudan. This dive site is classified as one of the world best for numerous reasons; wreck depth, condition, visibility, wreck penetration ease, history and intrigue as well as one explosive reason which we will [...]

Dive the Concrete Ship Atlantus for Cape May Diamonds

June 17, 2010

During the First World War as steel was becoming a scarce commodity, an experimental program sanctioned by President Woodrow Wilson approved the construction of an emergency fleet of 24 ships to be made out of concrete instead of steel. Of the 24 sanctioned a total of 12 were finally constructed towards the end of the [...]

Egypt’s Most Controversial Wreck Dive: The Salem Express

May 28, 2010

The Salem Express is arguably one of the most controversial wreck dives in the Red Sea due to the tragic loss of life which occurred in December 1991 when she sank just an hour away from its final destination, the Safaga Port. Originally built in the French shipyards of La Seyne in 1964 and known [...]

Dive Two Unique Airplane Wrecks in Aruba

May 19, 2010

Tired of diving shipwrecks and looking for something unique to pique your interest underwater? How about the opportunity to dive and explore not just one, but two airplane wrecks and be able to swim through them as well? Aruba, a 33-kilometer (21 mi) long Island of the Lesser Antilles in the southern Caribbean Sea, can [...]

Dive the Wreck of the Hilma Hooker Bonaire

May 12, 2010

If you’re in Bonaire, perhaps the best wreck dive you can do is that of the Hilma Hooker which is a cargo ship used for drug smuggling, sunk just off the shore resting on the sea bed in 90 feet of water completely intact. The ship itself is a spectacular dive site, and even more [...]

Dive the Felipe Xicotencatl C-53 Shipwreck Cozumel

March 17, 2010

Popularly known as “The Cozumel Wreck”, the Felipe Xicotencatl or C-53 is perhaps one of the most popular wrecks and dive site in Mexico. The Felipe Xicotencatl was a US Built Admirable-Class minesweeper formerly known as the USS Scuffle built in 1944 for the Navy during World War II. In 1962 she was decommissioned and [...]

Best Wreck Diving in the World: Truk (Chuuk) Lagoon, Micronesia

November 19, 2009

Chuuk Lagoon formerly known as Truk Lagoon is Micronesia’s incredible undersea phenomena and the finest wreck diving destination in the World. Located in between Hawaii and the Philippines, Micronesia consists of over 2000 tiny tropical islands covering over 3 million square miles of the Pacific Ocean. Micronesia is the collective name for the 8 island [...]

Dive the Stolt Dagali Wreck New Jersey

October 6, 2009

Lying 18 miles east of Point Pleasant beach New Jersey, half of the Stolt Dagali a 583 foot, 19,150 ton Norwegian steel hulled tanker lies at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and attracts thousands of Scuba divers each year and is considered one of the best Jersey Shore wreck dives. In November 1964 while carrying [...]

The Great Carrier Reef – Diving the USS Oriskany

September 3, 2009

Off the coast of Pensacola Florida, lies the former US Navy Aircraft carrier the USS Oriskany, after having served the US Navy in both Korea and Vietnam, the 900 foot, 30,000 ton carrier decommissioned in 1976 was deliberately sunk in the Gulf of Mexico in 2006 as part of a pilot program which aimed to [...]

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