List of wreck diving sites explained

List of shipwreck sites which are popular amongst scuba divers for wreck diving, arranged by geographical distribution.

North Atlantic

• , Baltimore, County Cork

•  - The Royal Navy's first British-designed submarine
•  - A-class submarine of the Royal Navy
•  - German ship wrecked at the Farne Islands in 1921. Now a dive site
•  - Greek registered freighter sunk off Dorset after a collision
  •  - Canadian cargo ship, sunk off the Needles during World War II
    • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • , Cornwall, United Kingdom
                      • List of shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly, Cornwall

United States

• • , Nantucket Sound. This dive is becoming less common, as the rapid deterioration of the wreck is making diving more difficult on top of the already treacherous dive to reach the vessel.

Caribbean Sea

Aruba

Bonaire

British Virgin Islands

Cayman Islands

Curaçao

• ,^[1]

Grenada

Mexico

Mustique

Florida

• Eagle, Islamorada, Florida
• USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Key West, Florida
• USS Oriskany, Pensacola, Florida
• USS Spiegel Grove, Florida Keys, Florida

Mediterranean Sea

Adriatic

• SMS Zenta
• SS Tiffany

• Constandis
• Lady Thetis

• Haven

• • Cominoland Imperial Eagle
• Karwela
• HMS Maori
• P29
• P31
• Rozi
• St. Michael
• Tug No. 10
• Tug No. 2
• Um El Faroud
• X127
• Xlendi

North Carolina, Outer Banks

See also: Graveyard of the Atlantic.

• U-352
• USS Monitor
• USS Tarpon
• USS Yancey
• USS Schurz (SMS Geier)
• USCGC Spar
• USS Indra
• SS Papoose
• USS Aeolus

Scapa Flow, Scotland

• SMS Markgraf

South Atlantic

Brazil

• Pirapama, Vapor Bahia, Corveta Camacuã and other wrecks in Recife;Corveta Ipiranga in Fernando de Noronha; Buenos Aires at Rio de Janeiro; other wrecks along the coast of Brazil

East Pacific

• Wreck Alley, San Diego, California

West Pacific

• HMAS Adelaide, New South Wales, Australia
• HMAS Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• , Queensland, Australia
• HMAS Canberra, Victoria, Australia
• , Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia
• MS Mikhail Lermontov, New Zealand
• Rainbow Warrior, New Zealand
• HMNZS Wellington, New Zealand
• Toa Maru, Solomon Islands
• SS President Coolidge, Vanuatu

Bikini Atoll

• - aircraft carrier
• - battleship
• - attack transport
• - attack transport
• - destroyer
• - destroyer
• - submarine
• - submarine
• - battleship
• - light cruiser

Guam

• American Tanker, WWII American concrete barge in Apra Harbor^[2]
• Aratama Maru, a WWII Japanese military transport in Talofofo Bay^[3]
• , WWI German merchant raider in Apra Harbor^[3]
• Kitsugawa Maru, a WWII Japanese transport in Apra Harbor^[3]
• Tokai Maru, WWII Japanese passenger-cargo ship in Apra Harbor^[3]

Truk Lagoon

See main article: Truk Lagoon.

Indian Ocean

• Al Munassir, Muscat, Oman
• HMS Hermes, Sri Lanka
• Inket Wreck, World War II Japanese shipwreck, Andaman Islands, India

Red Sea

• SS Thistlegorm, Egypt
• SS Carnatic, Egypt
• Salem Express, Egypt
• Giannis D, Egypt
• Rosalie Moller, Egypt
• INS Sufa, Israel

Freshwater Shipwrecks

Great Lakes

• List of shipwrecks in the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary
• RMS Empress of Ireland, Saint Lawrence River
• SS America, Lake Superior
• SS Carl D. Bradley, Lake Michigan
• SS Cedarville, Lake Huron
• SS D.R.Hanna, Lake Huron
• SS Eber Ward, Lake Michigan
• SS Ironsides, Lake Michigan
• SS Isaac M. Scott, Lake Huron
• SS Pewabic, Lake Huron
• , Lake Michigan
• SS Regina, Lake Huron
• SS Vienna, Lake Superior

References

Notes

Notes and References

1. Web site: The History of the Superior Producer . Sawyer . Ty . 22 September 2005 . SportDiver.com . 6 January 2017 .
2. Web site: What Concrete Ships Lie at Guam? . ww2pacific.com . 7 March 2021 . September 7, 2006.
3. Web site: Diving in War in the Pacific National Historical Park . National Park Service . March 6, 2021 . October 30, 2012.