With wreck diving being a fasctinating facet for any diver, having a wreck to explore makes any dive region more attractive.

While it takes a while for marine life to take over a wreck, the long-term rewards are major. Countless purposely-sunk wrecks dot the divespots of the world and this latest addition is no slouch, given that it is a large warship.

USS Kittiwake was sunk off the waters of the Cayman Islands to create an artificial reef.

Site of numerous atomic-bomb tests, the Bikini Atoll has been “cleaned up” and opened as a unique wreck-dive site including the retired aircraft carrier USS Saratoga used as a A-bomb test candidate resting at the bottom, along with WWII planes.

With local produce and seafood still being contaminated and dive-boats being required to be self-contained – including fuel – I assume that the time at which any divers in quantity will be able and willing to reach this site is still decades away. Unfortunately.

The Baker test which sunk the ships: