Index of recreational dive sites

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A

  • HMS A1 – The Royal Navy's first British-designed submarine
  • HMS A3 – A-class submarine of the Royal Navy
  • USS Aaron Ward – Gleaves-class destroyer of the United States Navy
  • Abessinia – German ship wrecked at the Farne Islands in 1921. Now a dive site
  • USS Accokeek – Auxiliary ocean tug of the United States Navy,
  • Addo Elephant National Park Marine Protected Area – Marine conservation area in the Eastern Cape in South Africa
  • HMAS Adelaide – Frigate of the Royal Australian Navy, lead ship of the class
  • SS Admiral Sampson – American-flagged cargo and passenger steamship
  • MV Adolphus Busch – Ship sunk off Looe Key, Florida, as an artificial reef and dive site
  • Aeolian Sky – Greek registered freighter sunk off Dorset after a collision
  • USS Aeolus – Attack cargo ship converted into a cable repair ship
  • Agat World War II Amtrac – Sunken amphibious tracked landing vehicle
  • SS Ajax – Cargo steamship that was built in Germany in 1923
  • Albert C. Field – Canadian cargo ship, sunk off the Needles during World War II
  • Akumal – Community in Quintana Roo state, Mexico
  • USS Algol – Andromeda-class attack cargo ship
  • SS Algoma – Screw steamer sunk on Lake Superior
  • Aliwal Shoal – A rocky reef off the coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  • Aliwal Shoal Marine Protected Area – Marine conservation area at Aliwal Shoal off the coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  • Alondra – English steamer wrecked off Ireland
  • Al Munassir – Amphibious warfare vessel operated by the Royal Navy of Oman
  • Alphard banks – Seamount on the Agulhas Bank
  • Amaryllis – Canadian cargo ship
  • Amed (Bali) – Group of fishing villages in Karangasem Regency on the north coast of Bali
  • SS America – Steam packet wrecked off Isle Royale in Lake Superior
  • USS Anderson – Sims-class destroyer
  • Andrea Doria – Genoa registered passenger liner of the Italian line sunk after a collision off Massachusetts
  • Anilao – Region popular for diving tourism – Marine protected sanctuary in Mabini, Batangas
  • Antilla – Hamburg America Line cargo ship scuttled in 1940 off Aruba
  • Antilles – French cruise ship that ran aground and sank off Mustique
  • Apo Island – Volcanic island in Visayas, Philippines
  • Apo Reef – Coral reef in the Philippines
  • USS Apogon – Balao-class submarine
  • SS Appomattox – Largest wooden steamship on the Great Lakes wrecked in 1905
  • Aquila – British built cargo ship sunk off Ambon
  • Aratama Maru – Japanese munitions transport ship sunk at Guam
  • Arctic – Tugboat used in the Great Lakes of North America
  • USS Arkansas – Dreadnought battleship of the United States Navy
  • SS Arratoon Apcar – 19th-century British steamship that is now a wreck in Florida
  • Arrecifes de Cozumel National Park – Marine protected area in the Cozumel reef system off Mexico
  • USS Arthur W. Radford – Spruance-class destroyer in the United States Navy
  • USS Atlanta – Atlanta-class light cruiser

B

  • Bangaram Atoll – Atoll in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep, India
  • Bay of Pigs – Bay on the island of Cuba
  • HMAS Bayonet – Attack-class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy
  • Belize Barrier Reef – Series of coral reefs straddling the coast of Belize
  • Bellubera – Ferry operated by the Port Jackson & Manly Steamship Company
  • SS Ben Doran – Steam fishing trawler that operated out of Aberdeen
  • SS Benwood – Steam cargo ship of the early twentieth century
  • Bianca C. – Passenger ship sunk off Grenada
  • USCGC Bibb – Secretary-Class Coast Guard ship
  • SS Binnendijk – Dutch cargo steamship sunk by a mine off Portland Bill in the English Channel
  • Biscayne National Park – American national park located south of Miami, Florida
  • HMSAS Bloemfontein – Algerine-class minesweeper built for the Royal Navy in Canada during World War II
  • Blue Grotto (Malta) – Sea caverns in Malta
  • Blue Hole (Red Sea) – Submarine sinkhole north of Dahab, Egypt
  • HMS Boadicea – B-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, sunk by enemy action in Lyme Bay
  • Boesmansgat – Sinkhole and dive site in South Africa
  • Bohol Sea – Marginal sea between the Visayas and Mindanao in the Philippines
  • Booya – Schooner wrecked in Darwin, Australia
  • BOS 400 – Recent wreck and dive site at Duiker Point on the Cape Peninsula west coast
  • Bottle Island – One of the Summer Isles in Loch Broom, Scotland
  • Bowie Seamount – Submarine volcano in the northeastern Pacific Ocean
  • Breda – Dutch ship sunk off Scotland in 1940, now a recreational dive site.
  • Brian Davis – Iris-class buoy tender
  • HMAS Brisbane – Perth-class guided missile destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy sunk as a dive site off the Queensland coast
  • HMHS Britannic – Olympic-class ocean liner and WWI hospital ship
  • Bud Bar – Artificial reef near Boynton Beach, Florida
  • Bullhead Point Historical and Archeological District – Historic district in Wisconsin, United States
  • Bulli Point – Diving location in Lake Taupō, New Zealand
  • Bunaken – Island at the northern tip of Sulawesi in Indonesia
  • Bunaken National Park – Marine park in the north of Sulawesi island, Indonesia
  • Bungsberg – German cargo ship sunk near Tallinn, Estonia
  • Byron – Schooner that sank in Lake Michigan

C

  • Cagdanao – Island in the province of Palawan in the Philippines
  • Cahuita National Park – Terrestrial and marine national park in Costa Rica
  • Calve Island – Uninhabited island on the west coast of Scotland
  • HMAS Canberra – Adelaide class guided missile frigate of the Royal Australian Navy scuttled as dive site off Barwon Heads, Victoria
  • Cancún Underwater Museum – Underwater display of sculpture in Cancún, Mexico
  • HMCS Cape Breton – Royal Canadian Navy Cape-class maintenance ship
  • USCGC Cape Henlopen – Type "C" Cape-class coast guard cutter
  • Capernwray Dive Centre – Flooded quarry in Lancashire, England, used as a recreational dive site.
  • Captain Keith Tibbetts – Former Cuban Navy Koni II-class frigate scuttled in shallow water in Cayman Brac
  • Capurganá – Tourist destination of Colombia
  • Carl D. Bradley – Self-unloading Great Lakes freighter that sank in a Lake Michigan storm
  • USS Carlisle – Attack transport sunk at Bikini atoll
  • Carnatic – British steamship wrecked in the gulf of Suez
  • Carthaginian II – Steel sailing vessel sunk as artificial reef
  • SS Cayuga – American freighter, in service 1889–1895
  • SS Cedarville – Great lakes bulk carrier wrecked in a collision
  • Cenote – Natural pit or sinkhole that exposes groundwater underneath
  • SS Charles S. Price – Ship sunk in Lake Huron in 1913
  • HMCS Chaudière – Restigouche-class destroyer of the Royal Canadian Navy
  • ROCS Chen Hai – Casa Grande-class dock landing ship
  • Chesil Cove – Massive curved slope of shingle, at Chesil Beach in Dorset, England
  • SS Chester A. Congdon – American Great Lakes freighter 1907-1918
  • Chinhoyi Caves – Group of caves in north central Zimbabwe
  • Christina Nilsson – Schooner that sank in Lake Michigan
  • Christ of the Abyss – Submerged statue of Jesus Christ
  • Chuuk Lagoon – A sheltered body of water in the central Pacific in the Federated States of Micronesia
  • Chuuk Lagoon – Atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia
  • Chuuk State – State in the Federated States of Micronesia
  • Circle of Heroes – Underwater military memorial in Florida
  • Ċirkewwa – Harbour in Malta
  • City of Bangor – Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior
  • SS City of Everett – American whaleback steamship
  • SS City of Launceston – Steamship operated by the Launceston and Melbourne Steam Navigation Company
  • SS Clan Ranald – Turret deck steamship that sank off the Yorke Peninsula, South Australia
  • SS Clifton – Whaleback Great Lakes freighter
  • Cliff Villa Peninsula – Promontory in Bandabou, Curaçao
  • Cobb Seamount – Underwater volcano west of Grays Harbor, Washington, United States
  • Cocklebiddy cave – Large flooded cave in Western Australia
  • Cod Hole – Dive site in Queensland, Australia
  • USCGC Comanche – Coast guard cutter
  • SS Comet – 1857 steamship, only treasure ship of Lake Superior
  • Constandis – Fishing vessel sunk as a recreational dive site in Limassol Bay, Cyprus
  • HMAS Coogee – Passenger ferry that briefly served as a Royal Australian Navy armed patrol vessel
  • SMS Cormoran – German armed merchant raider of WWI scuttled at Guam
  • HMS Coronation – 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy
  • Coron Bay – Bight in Palawan, Philippines
  • Coron Island – Island in the Calamian Islands in Palawan in the Philippines
  • Cozumel – Island in Quintana Roo, Mexico
  • Crusader – Australian Army amphibious operations support ship of World War II
  • USS Curb – Diver-class rescue and salvage ship
  • PS Cumberland – Wooden-hulled side paddlewheeler wrecked in Lake Superior
  • USCGC Cuyahoga – US Coast Guard Active-class patrol boat

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H

  • Hamilla Mitchell – Shipwreck and treasure recovery
  • Hand Deeps – Area of the English Channel off the south coast of Cornwall
  • Haql – City in Tabuk province, Saudi Arabia
  • MT Haven – Crude oil carrier that sank off the coast of Genoa, Italy in 1991
  • Heian Maru – Japanese ocean liner and auxiliary submarine tender.
  • SS Henry Chisholm – Wooden freighter wrecked in isle royale
  • MT Hephaestus – Bunkering oil tanker which ran aground off Qawra, Malta
  • Heron Island (Queensland) – Coral cay in Queensland, Australia
  • Hermann Künne – Type 1936-class destroyer
  • HMS Hermes – 1924 unique aircraft carrier
  • Herzogin Cecilie – German-built four-masted barque wrecked near Salcombe
  • SS Hesrer – Bulk-freighter steamship that sank in Lake Superior
  • Hilsea Point Rock – Group of pinnacles in the English Channel off Devon
  • Hilma Hooker – Shipwreck in Bonaire in the Caribbean Netherlands
  • Hispania – Swedish steamship wrecked in the Sound of Mull, now a dive site
  • Hluleka Marine Protected Area – Marine conservation area in the Eastern Cape in South Africa
  • HMAS Hobart – Former guided missile destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy scuttled off Yankalilla Bay in South Australia
  • Hoi Ha Wan – Bay in a marine park in Hong Kong
  • Hol Chan Marine Reserve – Marine reserve off the coast of Belize
  • Home – Two-masted schooner which sank in Lake Michigan
  • HMS Hood – Royal Sovereign-class battleship of the Royal Navy scuttled in Portland Harbour
  • Hotel Terme Millepini – Hotel with 40m deep underwater diving pool
  • Hranice Abyss – Flooded sinkhole near the town of Hranice, Czech Republic
  • SS Hydra – American steel-hulled Great Lakes bulk freighter,

I

  • Igara – Bulk carrier wrecked off the east coast of Malaysia and partly salvaged
  • USS Indra – Landing craft repair ship built for the United States Navy during World War II
  • Inland Sea, Gozo – Seawater lagoon on Gozo, Malta
  • SS Ironsides – Wooden-hulled American package freighter on Great Lakes service
  • SS Isaac M. Scott – American Great Lakes freighter
  • iSimangaliso Marine Protected Area – Marine conservation area in northern kwaZulu-Natal in South Africa
  • Island City – Schooner that sank in Lake Michigan

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M

  • HMS M2 – Royal Navy submarine monitor wrecked in Lyme Bay
  • HMCS Mackenzie
  • Madeira – Barge that sank in Lake Superior in 1905
  • Magic Point – Coastal headland in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  • Maine – British ship sunk in 1917 near Dartmouth, Devon. Now a recreational dive site
  • Major General Wallace F. Randolph – Mine planter of The US Army
  • Makna, Saudi Arabia – A town in Tabuk provence of Saudi Arabia
  • Malgas Island Marine Protected Area – Marine conservation area on the west coast in the Western Cape province in South Africa
  • Malapascua – Island in the Philippines
  • Maloja – UK registered passenger steamship sunk by a mine off Dover
  • Maltese patrol boat P29 – Ship scuttled as dive site off Malta
  • Maltese patrol boat P31 – Minesweeper/patrol boat scuttled for use as a recreational dive site
  • The Manacles – Set of treacherous rocks off The Lizard peninsula in Cornwall
  • Mantanani Islands – Group of three islands off the north-west coast of Sabah, Malaysia
  • HMS Maori – Royal Navy Tribal class destroyer sunk in Malta
  • SS Manasoo – Canadian steamship launched in 1888
  • SS Maori – Shoreline historical wreck in Leeugat Bay on the Cape Peninsula west coast
  • Marguerite – French ship sunk in Lyme Bay in 1917. Now a dive site
  • Maritime Heritage Trail – Battle of Saipan – A group of WWII wrecks in the lagoon at Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands
  • SMS Markgraf – German battleship scuttled in Scapa Flow
  • SS Marquette – Wooden-hulled, American Great Lakes freighter
  • Marsa Alam – Town in the Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
  • Martin's Haven – Bay in Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK,
  • SS Mauna Loa – Cargo steam-ship sunk in the bombing of Darwin
  • Mayflower – Wooden hulled scow schooner that sank in Lake Superior
  • USAT Meigs – United States Army transport ship sunk in Darwin Harbour
  • Memba Bay – Bay in Nampula Province, Mozambique
  • Mendi – Passenger steamship that sank after a collision south of the Isle of Wight
  • MV Mercedes I – Merchant ship built in 1952 in Hamburg, Germany
  • Merkanti Reef – Artificial reef at St. Julian's, Malta
  • USCGC Mesquite – Seagoing buoy tender scuttled in Lake Superior
  • Metamora – Wooden tug wrecked in the Georgian Bay area of Ontario
  • Michigan Underwater Preserves – Protected areas of the Great Lakes on Michigan's coast
  • SS Midland City – Canadian passenger and cargo vessel on the Great Lakes
  • Mikhail Lermontov – Soviet cruise liner wrecked in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand
  • SS Milwaukee – Great lakes train ferry that foundered in a storm
  • USS Mindanao – US Navy Luzon-class internal combustion engine repair ship in service 1943-1947
  • Minnedosa – Wooden Great Lakes schooner
  • SS Miowera – Passenger and refrigerated cargo liner
  • USS Mizpah – United States Navy patrol yacht
  • Miztac – Schooner barge sunk in Lake Superior
  • SS M.M. Drake – American steam barge that sank in Lake Superior
  • USCGC Mohawk – US Coastguard cutter sunk as artificial reef off south-west Florida
  • Mohegan – Steamer wrecked off the coast of the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall
  • Molasses Reef – Coral reef located within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
  • RMS Moldavia – British ship sunk in 1918 off Beachy Head, now a dive site
  • Molinere Underwater Sculpture Park – Collection of underwater contemporary art off Grenada in the Caribbean
  • Molnár János Cave – Water-filled cave in Budapest, Hungary
  • Molokini – Islet in Maui County, Hawaii
  • SS Monarch – Passenger-package freighter that sank in Lake Superior
  • USS Monitor – First ironclad of the US Navy, 1861–1862
  • SS Monrovia – French cargo ship
  • HMS Montagu – Pre-dreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy wrecked on Lundy Island
  • Mount Storm Lake – Cooling water reservoir in West Virginia, U.S.
  • MV RMS Mulheim – German owned container ship wrecked at Land's End, United Kingdom
  • USS Muliphen – Andromeda-class attack cargo ship
  • SS Myron – Wooden steamship that sank in Lake Superior

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O

  • Oceana – Cargo and passenger ship sunk off Beachy Head after a collision
  • Octopus Hole – A designated conservation area on the Washington's Hood Canal.
  • Octopus Hole Conservation Area – A designated conservation area on the Washington's Hood Canal.
  • Ogof Agen Allwedd – Cave in Llangattock, Powys, Wales
  • Oite – Kamikaze-class destroyer built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during the 1920s
  • SS Onoko – Iron hulled Great Lakes freighter.
  • USS Oriskany – Essex class aircraft carrier sunk to create an artificial reef
  • Osborne Reef – Artificial reef off Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US
  • Oslofjord – Ocean liner sunk after hitting a mine off the River Tyne
  • Osprey Reef – Submerged atoll northeast of Queensland, Australia
  • Ox Bel Ha – Flooded cave system in Quintana Roo, Mexico
  • Ozone – Paddle steamer built in Scotland in 1886

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  • Radaas – Ship sunk in 1917 near Portland Bill, now a dive site
  • Rainbow Warrior – Greenpeace vessel bombed by French intelligence service operatives in Auckland harbour, refloated and scuttled as a dive site
  • USS Rankin – US Navy Tolland-class attack cargo ship in service 1945-1947, 1952-1971
  • Rapid Bay jetty – Recreational dive site in South Australia
  • Ras Muhammad National Park – Egyptian national park in South Sinai
  • Red Sea – Arm of the Indian Ocean between Asia and Africa
  • SS Regina – Steel ship that foundered in Lake Huron in a storm
  • HMS Repulse – 1916 Renown-class battlecruiser of the Royal Navy
  • RMS Rhone – Royal Mail Ship wrecked off Salt Island in the British Virgin Islands in a hurricane
  • Richelieu Rock – Dive site in Thailand in the Andaman Sea
  • Risør Underwater Post Office – Norway tourist attraction
  • Riva Palacio – Admirable-class minesweeper built for the United States Navy
  • Robben Island Marine Protected Area – Marine conservation area in South Africa
  • Robberg Nature Reserve and Marine Protected Area – Conservation area at the Robberg peninsula in South Africa
  • Robert C. Pringle – Wooden-hulled American tugboat that sank in Lake Michigan
  • Robert Gaskin – Shipwreck in the St. Lawrence river
  • SS Robert Wallace – Wooden steamship wrecked in Lake Superior in 1902
  • Rocherpan Marine Protected Area – Marine conservation area on the west coast of the Western Cape in South Africa
  • USS Rochester – Second United States Navy armored cruiser so designated
  • Rondo – Ship sunk in Sound of Mull in 1935, now a recreational dive site
  • Rosehill – Steam collier torpedoed and sunk near Fowey, Cornwall
  • Rosinco – Diesel-powered luxury yacht that sank in Lake Michigan
  • SS Rotorua – New Zealand Shipping Company steam ocean liner and refrigerated cargo ship
  • Rouse Simmons – Three-masted schooner sunk in Lake Michigan
  • Roy A. Jodrey – Canadian bulk carrier sunk in the St Lawrence river
  • Royal Adelaide – Iron sailing ship wrecked on Chesil Beach
  • Royal Charter – Steam clipper wrecked off Porth Alerth on the coast of Anglesey
  • Rozi – Tugboat scuttled as a dive site off Malta
  • Rum Jungle Lake – Flooded open cast mine near Darwin, Australia

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U

  • U-40 – German submarine sunk by a mine in the English Channel
  • U-352 – German submarine sunk by depth charges south of Morehead City, North Carolina
  • U-1195 – German submarine sunk by antisubmarine mortar to the southeast of the Isle of Wight
  • Um El Faroud – Libyan owned tanker scuttled as dive site off Malta
  • Utila – Smallest of Islas de la Bahía, Honduras

V

  • Varvassi – Greek freighter wrecked at The Needles in a storm after engine failure
  • USS Vermilion – Tolland-class attack cargo ship
  • SS Vernon – American passenger and package freighter ship sunk in Lake Michigan
  • Ve Skerries – Small islands in the west of Shetland
  • SS Vienna – Steamship sunk after a collision in Lake Superior
  • Vortex Spring – Freshwater spring and recreational dive site in Florida

W

Y

  • USS Yancey – Andromeda-class attack cargo ship sunk as an artificial reef off North Carolina
  • YO-257 – US Navy yard oiler scuttled off Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii
  • Yongala – Australian registered passenger ship that sank off Cape Bowling Green, Queensland, Australia
  • HMCS Yukon – Mackenzie-class destroyer of the Royal Canadian Navy

Z

  • Zacatón – Water-filled sinkhole in Mexico
  • Zenobia – RO-RO ferry that capsized and sank near Larnaca, Cyprus
  • Zealandia – Australian cargo and passenger steamship sunk in the bombing of Darwin
  • Zingara – Cargo vessel wrecked in the Straits of Tiran in the Red Sea

See also

References

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