Got the following email from American Diving regarding the sinking of the Texas Clipper.
The Texas Clipper
The reefing of the Texas Clipper press event will be held at South Padre Island Convention Center on March 30, 2007. The planned reefing of the Texas Clipper will take place on March 31st, 2007.
The Texas Clipper is a decommissioned troop transport ship (USS Queens) some 480 feet long and will lay in 135 feet of water with the wheel house sitting on 45 feet of water. This premiere dive location will be 17 miles dead east of the South Padre Island jetties in blue water.
From 1965 to 1996 she served as a the Texas A&M Training Academy ship at Texas A&M Galveston. To view the Texas Clipper coming into the South Padre Island jetties, see http://www.divesouthpadre.com/.
The Texas Clipper can be reached within a one hour run from the jetties of South Padre Island aboard the M.V. Diver I.
The Texas Clipper
The reefing of the Texas Clipper press event will be held at South Padre Island Convention Center on March 30, 2007. The planned reefing of the Texas Clipper will take place on March 31st, 2007.
The Texas Clipper is a decommissioned troop transport ship (USS Queens) some 480 feet long and will lay in 135 feet of water with the wheel house sitting on 45 feet of water. This premiere dive location will be 17 miles dead east of the South Padre Island jetties in blue water.
From 1965 to 1996 she served as a the Texas A&M Training Academy ship at Texas A&M Galveston. To view the Texas Clipper coming into the South Padre Island jetties, see http://www.divesouthpadre.com/.
The Texas Clipper can be reached within a one hour run from the jetties of South Padre Island aboard the M.V. Diver I.