THE INSIDE SCOOP

➭ We dive because we want answers. We start with the need to know what lurks beneath the ocean’s surface. Then, as curiosities extend to wrecks and artificial reefs, the need quickly grows to exploring what lies inside, to witness firsthand the past, as told by the artifacts and stories that remain. Every room, hallway, hold and staircase reveals another layer of what a ship’s past life looked like, and tells how the ocean’s hand reshapes an environment. Some rooms become favorite haunts for goliath grouper. Sometimes dark hallways become synonymous with the eels that take up residence. Beyond the wildlife, the ships themselves corrode, shift, and evolve with time and weather. Storms have the capacity to alter the angle at which a wreck sits, as well as stir the sand