🇨🇦Canada
The most famous Great Lakes wreck, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, lies in deep water and is a designated grave site. While it's beyond the reach of all but the most extreme technical divers, its story and legend are a huge part of the region's diving culture.
🇳🇴Norway
The SS Gudrun is another huge and well-preserved wreck in the Gulen area. This deep, technical wreck dive is for experienced trimix divers, but offers a stunning view of a historic vessel sitting perfectly upright on the fjord floor.
🇭🇷Croatia
The SS Lina was an Italian steel freighter that ran aground and sank in WWI. The large wreck slopes down a steep wall, with the bow intact and picturesque, while the stern is deeper and more broken up. A classic Croatian wreck.
🇦🇺Australia
The SS Maheno is a famous shipwreck that rests on the beach of Fraser Island. While not a dive site, this rusting, skeletal wreck is an iconic and highly photogenic landmark, a must-see for visitors to the world's largest sand island.
🇬🇧United Kingdom
The SS Mohegan was a luxury liner that sank in 1898 on the treacherous Manacles reef. The wreck is now very broken up but is a beautiful dive, covered in jewel anemones and home to a huge amount of marine life.
🇧🇶Bonaire
The SS Oranje is a small tugboat that was sunk in very shallow water. It's an easy and fun wreck dive, perfect for beginners and snorkelers, and has become a nice little artificial reef.
🇬🇷Greece
The SS Oria was an Italian steamship that sank in a storm during WWII with thousands of prisoners of war on board, one of the worst maritime disasters in history. The wreck is a poignant and challenging dive for experienced divers.
🇲🇹Malta
The SS Polynesien was a French passenger liner that was torpedoed in WWI. This huge wreck is a spectacular and historic technical dive, sitting upright in deep water and full of interesting artifacts.
🇻🇺Vanuatu
The SS President Coolidge is a massive former luxury liner and troopship that sank after hitting mines. At 200 meters long, it's the largest, most accessible shipwreck in the world. It offers a huge range of dives, from shallow decks to deep, technical penetrations.
🇬🇧United Kingdom
The SS Schiller was a German transatlantic liner that sank in 1875 with a huge loss of life. The wreck is now very broken up in shallow water, but the massive boilers are still an impressive sight, on a reef covered in kelp.
🇪🇸Spain
The SS Sirio was an Italian passenger liner that sank in 1906 with a huge loss of life. It's a massive and historic deep wreck, often called the 'Titanic of the Mediterranean', offering a spectacular dive for qualified technical divers.
🇧🇧Barbados
The SS Stavronikita is a massive 365-foot Greek freighter that was sunk to become an artificial reef. It sits upright in deep water and is a spectacular wreck dive for advanced divers, now covered in a stunning array of corals and sponges.
🇭🇷Croatia
The SS Teti is an Italian freighter that ran aground in 1930. The wreck now lies on a steep slope, with parts as shallow as 10m and the stern at 34m. It's a beautiful artificial reef, swarming with fish.
🇪🇬Egypt
The SS Thistlegorm is arguably the most famous shipwreck dive in the world. This British WWII vessel was sunk in 1941 and remains a time capsule of history on the seabed, its cargo holds still packed with motorcycles, trucks, rifles, and munitions.
🇨🇾Cyprus
The SS Tiflis was a Swedish cargo ship that was torpedoed in WWI. The wreck sits upright and is a fascinating historical dive for advanced divers, with its boilers and engine clearly visible.
🇪🇬Egypt
The SS Turkia is a remarkably intact cargo ship that sank in 1941. It sits perfectly upright in the Gulf of Suez and is full of fascinating cargo, including cars, explosives, and tires. A fantastic but remote wreck for advanced divers.
🇦🇺Australia
The SS Yongala is a world-famous shipwreck that sank in 1911. Today, it is an artificial reef teeming with life, including giant groupers, eagle rays, turtles, and vast schools of pelagic fish. It's a truly spectacular dive into history.
🇬🇧United Kingdom
St Abbs is a voluntary marine reserve with some of the most beautiful and colorful cold-water diving in Europe. The rock walls are covered in a dense carpet of 'dead man's fingers' soft corals, and it's a great place to find the elusive wolf fish.
🇩🇴Dominican Republic
The St. George was a large freighter that was sunk as an artificial reef. At 240 feet long, it's an impressive wreck for advanced divers, sitting upright and allowing for penetration for those with the proper training.
🇪🇬Egypt
St. Johns is a collection of reefs in the deep south of the Egyptian Red Sea, near the Sudanese border. The area is known for its pristine condition, beautiful hard coral gardens, and a labyrinth of tunnels, caverns, and swim-throughs.
🇪🇬Egypt
St. Johns is a collection of reefs in the deep south of the Egyptian Red Sea, near the Sudanese border. The area is known for its pristine condition, beautiful hard coral gardens, and a labyrinth of tunnels, caverns, and swim-throughs.
🇬🇧United Kingdom
St Kilda is a remote, uninhabited archipelago and UNESCO World Heritage site far off the west coast of Scotland. The diving here is spectacular, with incredibly clear water, dramatic underwater cliffs, deep caves, and abundant marine life.
🇲🇿Mozambique
St. Lazarus Bank is a massive, remote offshore seamount that is a magnet for big fish. It's a world-class destination for seeing sharks, marlin, sailfish, and huge schools of tuna and barracuda. A true big-game fishing and diving hotspot.
🇫🇲Micronesia
Stammtisch is one of Yap's famous manta ray cleaning stations. Located inside the calm Mi'il Channel, it's a very easy and reliable dive where divers can settle on the sandy bottom and watch as multiple manta rays come in to be cleaned.
🇻🇺Vanuatu
The Star of Russia is a historic, three-masted sailing ship that now rests in Port Vila harbor. Built in the same shipyard as the Titanic's sister ship, it's a beautiful and remarkably intact wreck for advanced divers.