The Great Carrier Reef – Diving the USS Oriskany

USS Oriskany

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 [...]

Ready to Dive Florida’s Newest Artificial Reef?

General Hoyt S. Vandenberg

After a decade of planning and an $8.6 million, the General Hoyt S. Vandenberg was finally sunk on May 27 and is now a public dive site…

World’s Top 10 Wreck Dives (Part-I)

Umbria, Wingate Reef, Sudan

Nothing gets the attention of divers like a sunken wreck. The allure of wreck diving has drawn many divers into choosing it as a specialty….

World’s Top 10 Wreck Dives (Part-II)

Blackjack B17, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea

If you’ve missed numbers 10 to 6 of our World’s Top 10 Wreck Dives check it out here: World’s Top 10 Wreck Dives (Part-I) 5. Blackjack B17, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea The Blackjack, a B17 military bomber aircraft made by Boeing is not your usual wreck dive. The flying fortress that now lies about [...]