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15 Incredible Underwater Wrecks
The ocean is a treasure trove of history, with wrecks being discovered that are full artefacts, lost treasures and stories that we can only guess. Let’s delve to the bottom of the ocean and learn about some incredible wrecks.
15 - Graveyard of ships, Teriberka, Arctic Ocean
Teriberka is a small settlement on the northern shore of the Kola Peninsula,founded in the first half of the 17th Century as a seasonal fishing base. It soon became a major fishing center but started to decline in the 1960s, with the arrival of super-ships.
The residents had nowhere to register the arrivals and departures of fishing vessels, which forced fishermen to pull in at the nearby regional capital, Murmansk.
Today, the ‘Graveyard of ships’ is a tourist attraction in Russia.
14 – Sweepstakes, Tobermory, Ontario
Big Tub Harbor is the place to be if you're a diver. Just about three hours northwest of Toronto, this body of water is home to over 20 shipwrecks. It's sort of like the Bermuda Triangle of Ontario, Canada.
It's hard for photos to do this one justice, but the star shipwreck has to be "Sweepstakes," a Great Lakes Schooner built-in 1867 in Burlington, Ontario. In its heyday, it weighed 218 gross tons and was 119 feet long. 36-meters)
In the summer of 1885, “Sweepstakes” was hauling coal when it hit a rock in Cove Island. The ship eventually sank in the shallow waters. She was then towed to the nearby Big Tub harbor by a tugboat called Jessie. Sweepstakes, however, was beyond repair and she was eventually stripped of all her valuables. Today, you can take a boat to the wreckage which will allow you to view the ship from its “glass bottoms”.
13 – Truk Lagoon, Micronesia
This lagoon, just off the Caroline Islands in the South Pacific has a very rich military history which haunts Japan to this day. Hundreds of Japanese aircraft and other defense machines are lying at the bottom of this lagoon.
The lagoon, with its low coral islands, is surrounded by a remarkable sheltered reef making it ideal to house a navy.
On the 17th of February 1944, this lagoon became the setting of a surprise attack resulting in several fleet carriers, support ships and 500 aircraft descending on the island. A week before the attack the Japanese moved even more ships to the area, which resulted in an even greater loss for the country.
Today, hundreds of Japanese aircraft and other machines remain at the bottom of the lagoon, making it one of the world’s best dive sites to view wreckages from this crucial time in our world history.
Jacques Cousteau’s 1969 film Lagoon of Lost Ships explored the wreck-littered lagoon, and many of the sunken ships were where the remains of some of the victims were found.
As wreck divers brought attention to the site, Japan began recovery efforts, and remains had been removed and returned to Japan for proper burial.
Diving in this underwater graveyard is very dangerous though due to old oil and fuel that is in the water as well as the state of the wreckages which has been underwater for over half a century.
12 – Tangalooma Wrecks, Australia
A paradise and must-see for any scuba diver or snorkeling enthusiast. Here on the Moreton Islands in Australia, you can feast your eyes on the Tangalooma Wrecks which is a collection of fifteen vessels, deliberately sunk to form a break wall for small boats.
This was done in 1963 when recreational boat owners expressed the need for a safe anchorage.
Today you can even swim to these incredible wreckages as the area is close to the beach. What makes it extra special is the presence of unique marine life and different species of reef fish.
11 - HMS Vixen, Bermuda
Built in England in 1864, then launched to sea three years later, the HMS Vixen was a behemoth gunboat, deemed to be slow and unseaworthy.
Today, the Vixen is a well-known landmark as it’s bow sticks out of the narrow channel of Daniels’ Bay where it was positioned to prevent torpedo attacks.
In 1986, divers from the Bermuda Maritime Museum carried out an archaeological reconnaissance as they felt the vessels engineering features were worth the study.
Even though the ship was stripped of most of its valuable’s divers spent 13 weeks underwater to complete the project. During this time, they collected valuable data and incredible photographs.
10 – Jake Seaplane, Palau, Micronesia
The Jake Seaplane sits atop a reef, looking like it's ready for take-off. The plane, which seems to be still intact, allows divers to have a closer look at the cockpit to give you an idea what it was like to be a fighter pilot back in the day.
"Jake" was a long-range reconnaissance seaplane used by the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1941 to 1945.
