Name your best or favorite wreck dive

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nyresq:
the San Diego... but its starting to really collapse and break down, so a close second is the Stolt, third would be the Arundo

Once it fully collapses, it may become better.
I enjoy the Oregon and some lesser wrecks as the G&D, or Yankee.

Least favorate, Lizzie D, even though as of last count, I got the next to last intact bottle brought up from it.
 
The Benwood off Key Largo is a great shallow wreck. Lots of fun and sea life as well. I also like (as does Walter, his favorite wreck) The Eagle, off Islamorada in the Keys. Both great dives.
 
Thistlegorm...lots of details like wellies, motorcycles and trucks as well as a pretty "reefy" enviroment with plenty of fish and veggies...
what more can you ask fore?
last time I was there I helped the diveguide secure the line (because of currents) and so got a personally guided tour by a local without anyone disturbing the peace....going back there early april...(this time with a camera)
 
Spiegal Grove in the Keys. Looking forward to the Keith Tibbits dive in Caymans this coming May.
 
Amphibious:
Hard choice - I'd have to say the Snake Island Wrecks off Nanaimo BC, the HMCS Saskatchewan and the HMCS Cape Breton...

I especially liked the Cape Breton since I lived on board her for 6 months back in the 70s while the ship I served on, HMCS Mackenzie (also a cool artificial reef) was in drydock in Esquimalt. She is big and has a lot of passages. Saskatchewan has more life on it right now though.

cheers,
 
The USS New York in Subic Bay Philippines. Originally a Spanish American War battle cruiser and Admiral Sampsons flagship during the critical battle of Santiago de Cuba. Though decommissioned at the time (and renamed the USS Rochester), the American scuttled her to keep her guns from falling into Japanese hands before being overun at the start of the war. Big guns still intact, 5 minutes from shore in 85 degree water, and lots of history behind it, how can you beat it?
 
I had one of my best wreck dives on the "Eastcliff Hall", a freighter at the bottom of the St. Lawrence Seaway (Canada on one side, the US on the other). Current was strong, but once you got in the wreck it was awsome. This ship was carrying lead bars when it sunk and many bars remain. The top is all blown up, so you can swim in the hold of the ship from stern to stem. The top isn't completely gone, and you still have some stuff overhead. Once you get to the bow, there is a plaque in memory of the lost seamen. The current is still calm until you poke your head over the solid rail. The bow of the boat points directly upstream, so you can peek over and get your mask blown off if you aren't careful. Shimmy down the tip of the bow, letting the current hold you against the hull and down to the sand where the current is minimal. Let the current push you down the starboard (right) side and you will see a HUGE crack (where it hit the rocks) and you can actually swim inside (I didn't, but others in my dive did). The current takes you to the stern of the boat and almost whips you in behind the ship where there is no current. Ascend up the stern and do it all over again!

It may not be the blue warm carribbean, but this is GOOD diving!!!!
 
I hope that I've still to do my best ever wreck dive. I'd love to get out to the Carolinas' U Boats. That would be really cool.

Till then, I guess I have to say Key Largo's Spiegel Grove. I've been on that several times - there's always more to see and experience. Last time I was there a guide showed me some of the air pockets trapped in isolated sections of the ship - neat!
 
Even if it is a ship, if it was intentionally sunk as an artificial reef, is it technically a wreck?
Or is a wreck only something that made it to the bottom as the result of accident or combat.
 

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