Issue 40

Wreck Diving Magazine

Uncover the Past with Wreck Diving Magazine

Wreck Diving Magazine7 min read
WRECKommendations
Fatal Crossing: The Mysterious Disappearance of NWA Flight 2501 and the Quest for Answers Written by V.O. van Heest On the night of June 23, 1950, Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501, operating its daily transcontinental service between New York Ci
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PRESSReleases
RICHMOND, British Columbia – November 14, 2016 – Shearwater Research Inc. is proud to introduce the newest addition to the Shearwater family; the Perdix AI. Using its large, easy-to-read screen, the Perdix AI clearly displays the tank pressure as wel
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From the Debris Field...
In the late summer of 2016, Lake Superior’s most successful wreck hunters – Jerry Eliason, Ken Merryman, Kraig Smith, and Mike Stone (see Wreck Diving Magazine #31 for their discovery of the freighter, Henry B. Smith, deep in Lake Superior), found ye
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The Million-Dollar Dive
Not that I knew it at the time, but I was about to make the best dive of my life - a dive to a leviathan of a shipwreck! It was a wreck that would become not just an iconic legend but also the Mount Everest amongst technical divers. This was the lege
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Treasure Of The Sloop Washington
“The cargo of this ship includes a large quantity of valuable antique chinaware worth at least $100,000 in which some of the plates alone are worth $500 each. The strong box with gold bullion and coins are worth $100,000 to $250,000.” “WOW!” I said,
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Diving The Shipwrecks Of The Egyptian Red Sea
The Sinai Peninsula is a triangular land bridge located between the African and Asian continents, with the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Red Sea to the south. The Sinai Peninsula is the only Egyptian territory located in Asia as opposed to A
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The Tug, Tacoma
Tugboats are the energetic workhorses of maritime communities, engaging in activities ranging from towing log booms or rafts, sometimes great distances, upon the vast Great Lakes (see “Workhorse in the Wilderness” in WDM #38) and pulling larger vesse
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The All-Out Air and Sea Battle for Guadalcanal (Part 2)
Since the Pearl Harbor surprise raid by the Japanese on December 7, 1941, the United States military had yet to significantly enter the war in Europe or North Africa against Germany and Italy (the American invasion of Morocco, Oran and Algiers in Nor
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Azores: The Waypoint of the World
That was almost 30 years ago. In the years since then, my passion for wreck diving led to my getting a degree in history and I studied and researched the naval war of World War Two, in particular, the U-boat war in the North Atlantic. In fact, any st
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The EROS
This 914-ton yacht was launched in 1926 by the Ramages and Ferguson shipbuilders from Leith for Steam Yacht Ltd. of London. She was the fifth ship to bear the name, Eros. She was loaned to Baron Henri de Rothchild and le Havre became her home port. P

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