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SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10,1975,with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7,1958,she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes and remains the largest to have sunk there. She was located in deep water on November 14,1975,by a U.S. Navy aircraft detecting magnetic anomalies,and found soon afterwards to be in two large pieces.
A shipwreck is the wreckage of a ship that is located either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water. Shipwrecking may be intentional or unintentional. There were approximately three million shipwrecks worldwide as of January 1999,according to Angela Croome,a science writer and author who specialized in the history of underwater archaeology.
Little Cayman is one of three Islands that make up the Cayman Islands. It is located in the Caribbean Sea,approximately 60 miles (96 km) northeast of East End,Grand Cayman and five miles (8 km) west of West End,Cayman Brac. Little Cayman is the least populous island of the three,with a permanent population of about 160 (2021) including seasonal residents/homeowners. The majority of the population are expatriate workers from Jamaica,the Philippines,and Honduras and from other Latin American countries as well as Canada,the USA,India,Australia,Scotland,England,and South Africa. There are a handful of local Caymanians estimated as fewer than 20. It is about 10 miles (16 km) long with an average width of 1 mile (1600 m) and most of the island is undeveloped. Almost the entire island is at sea level. The highest elevation is about 40 feet. The rainy season,which consists of mostly light showers,occurs in Mid-April until June and again in mid-September to mid-October. There will be occasional quick rain showers in the early morning hours. The coolest months are from End of November until Mid March as the cold fronts coming in from the North which the temperature can drop into the low'70s. The Hottest and dryest months are in Summer starting mid-June to mid-September with temperatures between the mid-80s and high 90s. There are no large or predatory or venomous animals that pose a threat to humans.
Cayman Brac is an island that is part of the Cayman Islands. It lies in the Caribbean Sea about 145 km (90 mi) north-east of Grand Cayman and 8 km (5.0 mi) east of Little Cayman. It is about 19 km (12 mi) long,with an average width of 2 km (1.2 mi). Its terrain is the most prominent of the three Cayman Islands due to "The Bluff",a limestone outcrop that rises steadily along the length of the island up to 43 m (141 ft) above sea level at the eastern end. The island is named after this prominent feature,as "brac" is a Gaelic name for a bluff.
USS Spiegel Grove (LSD-32) was a Thomaston-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She was named for Spiegel Grove,the home and estate in Fremont,Ohio,of Rutherford B. Hayes,the 19th President of the United States.
RMS Rhone was a UK Royal Mail Ship owned by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSP). She was wrecked off the coast of Salt Island in the British Virgin Islands on 29 October 1867 in a hurricane,killing 123 people. She is now a popular Caribbean wreck dive site.
The Aeolian Sky was a Greek-run freighter built in 1978,which collided with another ship near the Channel Islands and after a failed attempt at salvage sank off the coast of Dorset,England in a storm in late 1979.
USS Kittiwake (ASR-13) was a United States Navy Chanticleer-class submarine rescue vessel in commission from 1946 to 1994.
Wreck Alley is an area a few miles off the coast of Mission Beach,San Diego,California with several ships intentionally sunk as artificial reefs and as Scuba diving attractions for wreck divers.
Sinking ships for wreck diving sites is the practice of scuttling old ships to produce artificial reefs suitable for wreck diving,to benefit from commercial revenues from recreational diving of the shipwreck,or to produce a diver training site.
The SS Samuel Mather was the first of seven U.S. merchant ships to bear that name. The wooden Mather sank in 1891 after she was rammed by the steel freighter Brazil in heavy fog in Whitefish Bay 8 miles (13 km) from Point Iroquois,ending the Mather's 4-year career. Her intact wreck is a rare of example of wooden freighters that plied the Great Lakes and she is a popular scuba diving site. Although there was no loss of life when the Mather sank,her wreck claimed the lives of three scuba divers more than 100 years after she sank. Artifacts from her wreck were illegally removed in the 1980s by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society. The artifacts are now the property of the State of Michigan and are on display as a loan to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. The wreck of the Mather is protected as part of an underwater museum in the Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve.
The Hilma Hooker is a shipwreck in Bonaire in the Caribbean Netherlands. It is a popular wreck diving site.
America was a packet boat transporting passengers,mail,and packages between settlements along the North Shore of Lake Superior,an inland sea in central North America. Built in 1898,America sank in Washington Harbor off the shore of Isle Royale in 1928,where the hull still remains. The wreck was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
The Henry Chisholm was a wooden freighter that sank off the shore of Isle Royale in Lake Superior in 1898 and the remains are still on the lake bottom. The wreck was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
The Florida Public Archaeology Network,or FPAN,is a state supported organization of regional centers dedicated to public outreach and assisting Florida municipalities and the Florida Division of Historical Resources "to promote the stewardship and protection of Florida's archaeological resources." FPAN was established in 2004,upon legislation that sought to establish a "Florida network of public archaeology centers to help stem the rapid deterioration of this state's buried past and to expand public interest in archaeology."
The SS Lakeland was an early steel-hulled Great Lakes freighter that sank on December 3,1924,into 205 feet (62 m) of water on Lake Michigan near Sturgeon Bay,Door County,Wisconsin,United States,after she sprang a leak. On July 7,2015,the wreck of the Lakeland was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
The following index is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Wikipedia's articles on recreational dive sites. The level of coverage may vary:
Recreational dive sites are specific places that recreational scuba divers go to enjoy the underwater environment or for training purposes. They include technical diving sites beyond the range generally accepted for recreational diving. In this context all diving done for recreational purposes is included. Professional diving tends to be done where the job is,and with the exception of diver training and leading groups of recreational divers,does not generally occur at specific sites chosen for their easy access,pleasant conditions or interesting features.
SS Hudson was a steel-hulled package freighter that served on the Great Lakes from her construction in 1887 to her sinking in 1901. On September 16,1901,while heading across Lake Superior with a cargo of wheat and flax,she ran into a storm and sank with the loss of all 25 crew off Eagle Harbor,Michigan. For nearly 118 years the location of Hudson's wreck remained unknown,until in July 2019 her wreck was found in 825 feet (251 m) of water,completely intact.
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