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Dive sites: Coral Encrusted

Coral Encrusted dive sites — depth, conditions, and required training level.

Aruba

Antilla Wreck

Palm Beach · Noord · Aruba

The Caribbean's largest accessible shipwreck -- a 122-metre German freighter scuttled in 1940, teeming with coral and fish life.

Barbados

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Stavronikita Wreck

Bridgetown · West Coast · Barbados

A 111-metre Greek freighter deliberately sunk in 1978 as an artificial reef, now draped in coral growth and home to massive schools of fish and sea turtles.

Bonaire

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Hilma Hooker

Kralendijk · Kralendijk · Bonaire

A mysterious 72-metre cargo ship resting on its side in warm clear water, encrusted with corals and surrounded by reef life.

British Virgin Islands

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RMS Rhone

Road Town · Salt Island · British Virgin Islands

A 19th-century Royal Mail steamer wrecked in an 1867 hurricane, now a coral-encrusted monument in crystal waters.

Curacao

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Tugboat

Willemstad · Caracas Bay · Curacao

A small, fully intact tugboat wreck resting in just 5 metres of water, beautifully encrusted with sponges and corals and accessible from shore.

Egypt

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Abu Nuhas - Giannis D Wreck

Hurghada · Red Sea Governorate · Egypt

A Greek cargo ship that sank in 1983 on the notorious Abu Nuhas reef, now broken in two with a dramatic bow section rising from the reef slope and an engine room open for penetration.

Saint Kitts and Nevis

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MV River Taw Wreck

Basseterre · Saint Kitts · Saint Kitts and Nevis

A deliberately sunk 44-metre freighter resting upright in just 12 metres of water off Basseterre, completely encrusted with coral and sponges, making it one of the Caribbean's most accessible and photogenic wreck dives.

St. Lucia

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Lesleen M Wreck

Soufriere · Soufriere · St. Lucia

A 50-metre freighter sunk as an artificial reef in 1986, now beautifully encrusted with corals and swarming with marine life.

Sudan

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SS Umbria Wreck

Port Sudan · Red Sea State · Sudan

A perfectly preserved 150-metre Italian cargo ship scuttled in 1940 with 360,000 bombs still in her holds, resting on Wingate Reef in the Sudanese Red Sea.