Egypt’s Most Controversial Wreck Dive: The Salem Express

Salem Express

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

dc3

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

Wreck Bow

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 [...]

Giant Cage to Protect Treasure of Croatian Shipwreck

cavtat

The Adriatic Sea is teeming with undiscovered ancient shipwrecks and untold treasures. Most recently an ancient Greek shipwreck estimated to contain a cargo of around $5-8 million was fitted with a large safe like metal cage that will protect the ship’s cargo from scuba looters who may be tempted to plunder the artifacts. The wreck [...]

Roatan a Diver’s Dream Come True

Roatan

Roatan is the largest of Honduras’ Bay Islands, located in the Caribbean just 40 miles north of the coast of Honduras. The Island which measures just 29 miles long and just 2 miles wide is located near the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef (also known as the Belize Barrier Reef) which is the second largest reef in [...]

Dive the Felipe Xicotencatl C-53 Shipwreck Cozumel

IMG_1778

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 [...]

Dive the MV Karwela in Malta

sinking the Karwela

The Island Republic of Malta is an archipelago in the central Mediterranean Sea just south of the Italian island of Sicily and north east of Tunisia on the African continent. Malta’s three largest islands — Malta, Gozo and Comino are inhabited.  The wreck of the MV Karwela rests on the sea bed just off the [...]

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

Chuuk Lagoon, Micronesia

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

Stolt Dagali

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

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 [...]