Issue 43

Wreck Diving Magazine

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WRECKommendations
If We Make It ‘til Daylight The Story of Frank Mays As told to Pat and Jim Stayer and Tim Juhl Jim and Pat Stayer are very good friends of Wreck Diving Magazine and, for more than 34 years, have been underwater filmmakers, lecturers, presenters, and
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PRESS Release
Klein Marine Systems, the world leading manufacturer of high-quality side scan sonars, will be hosting a three (3) day side scan sonar training at the Seacoast Science Center in Rye Beach, NH. Practical sessions on UNH Gulf Challenger, based in Newca
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Historic Australian Submarine Located!
Australia’s first submarine, the 181-foot-(55-metre)-long, 800-ton, British-built HMAS AE1, lost with its entire 35-man crew on September 14, 1914, during the early days of World War One, while on a routine patrol, has been found in approximately 1,0
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From the Debris Field…
Wreck divers are invited to submit short pieces of timely information about a shipwreck in their general area. Perhaps there is not enough information, or not enough archival and/or underwater images, to submit it as a full-length article, so this Fr
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Shipwreck from the Arctic’s Other Side!
Somewhere halfway between northern Russia and the North Pole, off a location on the Franz Josef Land archipelago called Cape Flora, lies the historic British, Arctic-research vessel named the Eira that sank on its maiden voyage – and researchers on b
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The Dean Richmond
The Dean Richmond was a spectacular sight when she was built. She was hailed by the press as a magnificent vessel. The press was infatuated with the steamer. However, she was fraught with bad luck and had a long history of mishaps prior to her founde
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Treasure In The English Channel!
During the years that I have been doing research in the archives, I have stumbled several times on some very interesting stories and wrecks by coincidence. One of them was the Dutch steamer, S.S. Castor. Since I found out about her story, the wreck w
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Solomon Islands Dive “Fest”
There are many destinations around the world that both recreational and technical divers routinely visit to dive a treasure-trove of shipwrecks, such as Truk Lagoon, North Carolina, Scapa Flow, the Red Sea, and more. Now the Visitors Bureau of the So
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Superior’s Hart
Take a look and “judge” for yourself. This wreck will capture your “hart.” Ok, ok, forgive all of the puns, but they are completely true! The wreck of the Judge Hart truly captured my heart for many reasons. I’ve never seen a more spectacular wheelho
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The Irony of Fate
Lying almost 40 miles due south of Brighton, deep in the English Channel, is a large steamer known as the Warilda. British divers from South London had searched for the wreck for many years during the 1980s. At that time, the SS Warilda was regarded
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Uss Conestoga : Once Lost, Now Found
On March 25, 1921, the fleet tug USS Conestoga steamed out past the Golden Gate on the first, long leg of an extended voyage to Pearl Harbor, and from there to American Samoa. The eighteen-year-old veteran tugboat, fresh from repairs at Mare Island N
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The Shipwrecks of Roi-Namur
In the years following the publication of three editions of my book, World War II Wrecks of the Kwajalein and Truk Lagoons, new information has become available that either adds to or revamps previous observations and knowledge. This article should p
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Deathblow on Lake Superior!
Captain Alexander McDougall (1845-1923), between 1888 and 1898, a time when steel gradually replaced wood as the material of choice for shipbuilding on the Great Lakes, constructed 40 steel vessels of a rather unique and revolutionary design. Proudly

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