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Complete Wreck Diving Guide: A Guide to Diving Wrecks, By Hank Keatts & Brian Skerry

March 23, 2011

If you really enjoy wreck-diving or have always wanted to find your own unexplored ship wreck, then a must have classic book that needs to find a place on your scuba diving bookshelf is the “Complete Wreck Diving Guide” by Hank Keatts & Brian Skerry. This 270 page paperback originally published by Aqua Quest Publications, [...]

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Dive Abu Nuhas the Ship Graveyard of the Red Sea – II

December 8, 2010

Sha’ab Abu Nuhas is a large triangular shaped submerged coral reef northwest of the Red Sea’s largest island, Shadwan Island in the northern Red Sea (Egypt). It is a navigation hazard because it projects into the nearby shipping channel that provides ships access to the Suez Canal. Here is the continuation of our article that [...]

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Dive Abu Nuhas the Ship Graveyard of the Red Sea – I

December 7, 2010

Sha’ab Abu Nuhas is a large triangular shaped submerged coral reef northwest of the Red Sea’s largest island, Shadwan Island in the northern Red Sea (Egypt). It is a navigation hazard because it projects into the nearby shipping channel that provides ships access to the Suez Canal. Abu Nuhas has seen its share of shipwrecks, [...]

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Wreck Diving: Dive The HMAS Hobart in South Australia

December 5, 2010

Known as one of South Australia’s premiere dive sites is the  HMAS Hobart, a World War II guided missile destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy. Decommissioned in 2000, the 133 meter (436 ft) long ship was strategically placed and well scuttled by controlled flooding into 30m of water, forming an artificial reef off the coast [...]

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Witness The Sinking Of The USS Kitiwake at Grand Cayman This December

November 30, 2010

If you’re planning a visit to the Grand Caymans this winter, make sure you don’t miss this once in a life-time opportunity to witness the creation of an artificial reef with the scheduled sinking of the USS Kittiwake on the 5th of December 2010. The USS Kittiwake was in service from 1945 to 1994 and [...]

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Scuba Dive at Canada’s Fathom Five National Marine Park

November 20, 2010

Located at the tip of the Bruce Peninsula, Fathom Five, Canada’s first national marine park, consists of 20 islands to the north and east of the Bruce Peninsula, and covers 130 square kilometers in roughly a triangular shaped area. The marine park covers the twenty islands, 22 shipwrecks and several lighthouses. Fathom Five Marine Park [...]

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Dive Chuuk the Wreck Diving Capital of the World

September 3, 2010

Chuuk, (formerly known as Truk till 1990) is an island group in the south western Pacific Ocean, and is one of the four states that make up the Island Republic of Micronesia. Chuuk has perhaps one of the most diverse and interesting histories for an Island of its size. Being colonized originally by the Spanish, [...]

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Unusual Wreckreational Diving: Boeing Aircraft Dive Sites

August 30, 2010

Tired of diving regular shipwrecks? Well, how about diving some planes instead, Boeing commercial aircrafts to be specific. Here’s a look at three pretty unusual dive sites that use old Boeing aircrafts to create artificial reefs and ofcourse cool dive sites! The first located of the coast of Miami in Florida, is a Boeing 727 [...]

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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 [...]

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