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Divers who love wrecks and maritime history will enjoy this well-designed database and reference site for shipwrecks. Looking for info on a specific ship? This site will help you narrow your search to use the web most effectively. more...
PADI's Wreck Diving
Want to explore sunken ships, crashed planes and lost treasures beneath the surface? Then the PADI Wreck Diver program might be what you want.
To venture into PADI’s Wreck Diver program, you’ll need to be at least a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver, Advanced Plus or equivalent) and be at least 15. more...
German wrecks
The underwater war waged by these German subs in the six year period between 1939 and 1945 has long fascinated divers. This site contains everything U-boat from profiles on all 1,153 of the subs to news and events on U-boat discoveries and dive sites. more...
Andrea Doria: Mt. Everest of underwater expeditions
After it was struck by the Swedish liner Stockholm on July 25,1956, the Andrea Doria took 11 hours to sink. On the morning of July 26, it listed so severely that the set of lifeboats on the left side of the ship could not be used. Many survivors escaped using ropes hung from the ship's stern. Fifty-one people died in the disaster.
Andrea Doria sinks...
While the Andrea Doria sank under bizarre circumstances, its demise is not what enthralls today's top-rank scuba divers, who make pilgrimages each summer for the eight weeks when offshore weather allows them to descend to the wreck.
It's not the deepest wreck for scuba divers, nor even the largest. But it ranks high in every category they take into account when rating the world's scuba destinations. So it has become known as the sport's premier challenge, it's Mount Everest. The Doria's offshore location is remote yet reachable by an 11-hour trip from Montauk. It's deep, well beyond the suggested recreational diving limit of 130 feet. It's big, longer than two football fields. It still looks like a ship, not a pile of indistinct debris. Unpredictable ocean currents roar around the wreckage, kicking up blinding silt and often slowing divers to a crawl. And at 180 feet down, the summertime water temperature at the Doria remains in the mid-40s. You ready?
Wreck diving courses with Deep Blue Diving
This European company based in the UK offers training and worldwide expeditions worldwide guaranteed to challenge you to the bottom and satisfy your highest expectations...
Trimix diving in Scapa Flow
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Want to explore sunken ships, crashed planes and lost treasures beneath the surface? Wreck divers are known for their rugged activities of diving very deep, needing lots of equipment and bringing home artifacts - some rememberance of where they went and what they saw. For some it's a bottle or a piece of brass, for others it's china or crystal from the Andrea Doria, the Mt. Everest of dives. Many divers specialize in wreck diving while they become experienced in technical diving, or the other way around. Wrecks also make excellent underwater photography subjects.
Associations and Web sites
IANTD (The International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers)
Nitrox Divers
Wrecks Online
Wreck Diving Top Destinations
Truk Lagoon, Truk
Truk Lagoon is unquestionably one of the world's best shipwreck diving destination. The number, variety, and size of the wrecks and the spectacular marine life that grows on them are unequalled. In February of 1944, Japan's fortress of Truk Lagoon was attacked by the US Task Force 58. More than 400 Japanese planes were wiped out and some 50-60 ships were believed sunk. The two days of devastating air assault created what is today known as the "Ghost Fleet of Truk Lagoon." During the past 50 years, these lifeless hulks have been transformed into magnificent artificial reefs, some with greater concentrations of soft and hard corals, sponges, and marine life than the neighbouring coral reefs. Some of the 35 wrecks that have been charted & explored are the Fukikawa Maru, a 437-foot freighter that served as an aircraft ferry, the Shinkoku Maru, a 500-foot intact tanker, the Sankisan Maru, a 380-foot freighter, the Hino Maru No. 2, a 200-foot cargo vessel whose bow gun nearly reaches the surface, and several war planes. On these wrecks, you may find such wartime relics as military trucks, cases of ammunition, field artillery pieces, airplanes and propeller blades, sake bottles, and machine guns. more...
Scapa Flow, Scotland
Scapa Flow is in the Orkney Islands, and covers some of the best wreck diving sites in the world. During the armistice talks at the close of World War I, the German Navy was sent to Scapa Flow as a gesture of good faith. The ships were only allowed to have skeleton crews for basic maintenance. At one point the German admiralty feared a British trick to overwhelm the skeleton crews and steal the whole fleet. Upon a prearranged signal, the skeleton crews scuttled their ships by opening the seacocks. The German fleet was later salvaged, with the exception of 7 ships which were too damaged to re-float. These seven World War I wrecks became the core attraction for an area with many excellent wrecks to dive. more...
Red Sea, Egypt
The Red Sea is known for its fierce storms and chains of reefs and submerged islands. These can be a navigational nightmare for pilots who aren't paying attention or for those caught in one of the storms. The proof of this is scattered at the bottom. Many ships have gone down and are now famous dive sites. The Thislegorm, the Carnatic and the Umbria to name only a few, the Red Sea is a wreck divers paradise. The Egyptian Tourist office offers a very extensive Web site on her wrecks. more...
 Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands
Bikini Atoll opened to divers in June of 1996 to provide an economic base for a possible future resettlement of Bikini Atoll. Bikini was once the site of the postwar nuclear tests code named "Operation Crossroads" and its lagoon now offers a collection of wrecks with major historical significance. The sunken fleet includes battleships, destroyers, submarines, cruisers, attack transports and the only aircraft carrier wreck accessible to divers, the USS SARATOGA. At Bikini, you will witness firsthand the effects of a nuclear explosion on warships, as these are the only ships in the world ever sunk by an atomic bomb. more...
Labuan, Malaysia
Labuan is Malaysian Federal Territory located 62 miles (115km) south of Kota Kinabalu and lies 5 miles (8km) off the mainland of Sabah (northern part of Borneo) at the northern Brunei Bay. Since early times, it has been a pivoting point in the maritime history of Borneo, with the first record of trading being visits by Chinese Junks to the Sultanate of Brunei. In the 1800's, Britain and other Colonial powers used Labuan as a trading and coaling station. The Island saw a lot of action during World War II from both the Allies' and Japanese navies and airforces.
Up to now, Borneo Divers have identified four ship wrecks to dive on near Labuan; two from World War II and two from the 1980's. These ships lie in l00-115 feet (30-35m) of water, with the top portions at 25-70 feet (8-12m). Visibility varies greatly season to season (and even day to day) from 20 feet (6m) to 70 feet (20m). They have adopted the names these wrecks go by locally: "Cement" Wreck, "American" Wreck, "Australian" Wreck, and "Blue Water" Wreck. The "Cement" Wreck can be enjoyed by Open Water (novice) divers. For the "Blue Water" Wreck you must be an Advanced Diver with deeper diving experience logged. To penetrate and dive into the "American" or "Australian" Wreck, you must be certified as a Wreck Diver Specialty or have logged experience in wreck diving. more...
North Carolina, USA
Bathed by the clear, warm waters of the Gulf Stream, the coast of North Carolina offers some of the best wreck diving in the United States.
Whether interested in sight-seeing, underwater photography, maritime or military history, a technical diver or just beginning, from Cape
Hatteras to Cape Fear, the numerous shipwrecks of North Carolina offer something for scuba divers of all interests and skill levels. Whether
your into German U-boats or their victims, modern vessels or historical sites, you can find it here. more...
Lake Superior and Lake Michigan, USA
Wisconsin's great lakes shipwrecks. more...
Ocean Discovery
Complete Wreck Diving, Henry Keatts & Brian Skerry | Buy
Shipwreck Diving, A Complete Diver's Handbook to Mastering the Skills of Wreck Diving, Dan Berg | Buy
Advanced Wreck Diving Guide, Gary Gentile | Buy
World War II Wrecks of Palau, Dan E. Bailey | Buy
Diving to the Past: Recovering Ancient Wrecks, W. John Hackwell | Buy
WW II wrecks of the Kwajalein and Truk lagoons, Dan E. Bailey | Buy
The Lusitania Controversies: Book One: Atrocity of War and a Wreck-Diving History, Gary Gentile | Buy
Andrea Doria: Dive to an Era by Gary Gentile | Buy
Shipwrecks : Diving the Graveyard of the Atlantic
by Roderick M. Farb | Buy
Graveyard of the Atlantic : Shipwrecks of the North Carolina Coast
by David Stick, Frank Stick (Illustrator) | Buy
Wreck Valley, A Record of Shipwrecks off Long Island's South Shore and New Jersey by Daniel Berg | Buy
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