Issue 42

Wreck Diving Magazine

Uncover the Past with Wreck Diving Magazine

Wreck Diving Magazine5 min read
WRECKommendations
The Lost Intruder The Search for a Missing Navy Jet Written by Peter M. Hunt On November 6, 1989, a US Navy Grumman A-6E Intruder, a twinjet, mid-wing, all-weather, attack aircraft, based at NAS Whidbey Island, Washington, experienced a total hydraul
Wreck Diving Magazine2 min readPhysics
Introducing JW Fishers’ New Proton 5 Marine Magnetometer
JW Fishers has specialized in the design and manufacture of underwater search equipment for almost 50 years. We’re proud to be releasing our new magnetometer in early 2018. We listened to our customers and have designed a 5th generation magnetometer
Wreck Diving Magazine6 min read
From the Debris Field...
Wreck divers are invited to submit short pieces of timely information about a shipwreck in their area. Perhaps there is not enough information, or enough archival and/or underwater images, to submit it as a full-length article, so this From the Debri
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“The Weight Belt” -- Cargo from Ancient Times!
In April 2011, I was invited for the first time to dive with Eddie Huzzey and Tony Goodfellow, who had found a virgin shipwreck in the Dover Straits. It was a wooden sailing ship, laden with a rich cargo from ancient times. They called it the “Weight
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The Atomic Ghost Fleet: The Wrecks Of Operation Crossroads
The first shots of the Cold War were two atomic blasts at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands in 1946, 2500 miles west of Honolulu. The blasts, Able and Baker, were part of a planned, three-detonation test of the atomic bomb. Designated Operation Cr
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A Bad Omen: The Tragic Twists of HMS Olympus
For as long as people have set out upon the water, seafarers have been a superstitious lot, wary of bad omens, and blaming ill fortune on powers beyond the realm of mere mortals. Inexplicable events meld with nautical lore, serving as explanations wh
Wreck Diving Magazine12 min read
Vanderbilt’s Warrior
The Warrior II, sunk off Portland Bill in the English Channel, has been a magnet for deep divers since the early 1980s. Leigh Bishop investigated a wreck that, during the heyday of Edwardian splendour, entertained the world’s wealthiest and most famo
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The Three Princesses of Pelee Passage
Three historic shipwrecks lie along a straight line running the seven miles (11 kilometres) between the actual “point” of Point Pelee on the Canadian mainland and the northeastern tip of Pelee Island. These three sidewheel steamers, used by railroads
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Wrecks Of The Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands consist of a chain of lush, reef-fringed islands stretching for more than 600 miles from Papua New Guinea, through the southwest Pacific, towards Vanuatu. The land area of the Solomon Islands is around 11,000 square miles comprise
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Bell Island Wrecks: Tragedy on the Homefront
In late summer and early fall of 1942, as World War II raged in Europe and the Pacific, the men and women of Bell Island, Newfoundland seemed far from the front lines. The Bell Island iron mines, which opened in the early 1900s, continued to support

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