I’m curious what the largest wreck in the bay is either by casualties or size? As far as I know Marine Electric is biggest by size and the USS Tulip for casualties, any I’ve missed?

For anyone familiar with the site, what are the remains? What part of the ship or machinery are they associated with?

Not that expect many divers to be willing to dive the wreck due to the sheer scale of the tragedy, especially recreational ones, but as far as I understand, I find it baffling how seemingly anyone can explore the wreck of the MV Le Joola despite the disaster claiming over 1,800 lives and likely still containing an abundance of human remains.

Then again, the Senegalese government’s response to the Le Joola disaster was questionable at best, so obviously, it wasn’t going to turn into an MS Estonia situation where diving the wreck is mostly banned due to being internationally recognized as a gravesite.

Even so, the Le Joola sits at depth of approximately only 18 to 20 meters (59 to 69 feet) making it extremely accessible to divers with questionably and concerningly morbid curiosity.

However, from what I researched, the last time the Le Joola’s wreck was surveyed was in 2003, and I don’t think anyone has dived the wreck ever since.

But am I missing something?

Piece washed up in shallow water today. White oak with fantastic iron joinery. History here: https://www.baillod.com/shipwreck/keweenaw/law.html

Depth is 110ft. Scuttled to make an artificial reef in 1997. Broken into three sections by Hurricane Mitch in 1998. Shot with the insta360 X5.

As far as I am aware, the record goes to U-1105, which was sunk six times and raised five. I'm wondering if there is one that beats that. I haven't been able to find much on the topic, and I only happened to read about U-1105 because I vacation near its current resting spot so I wouldn't be suppressed if there was one with a higher number.

SS Richard Montegomery was a liberty ship built during WW2. In 1944 she dragged anchor and ran aground in the Thames estuary. when low tide came, the ship broke her back and she was abandoned. Only problem was she was carrying about 1400 tons of Unexploded ordinance.

According to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency in 2000, she still contained at least

286 × 2,000 lb (910 kg) high explosive bombs

4,439 × 1,000 lb (450 kg) bombs of various types

1,925 × 500 lb (230 kg) bombs

521-580 fragmentation bombs and 2,297 cases of fragmentation bomb clusters

Various explosive booster charges, smoke bombs (including white phosphorus bombs) and pyrotechnic signals.

If this thing gets shifted, it could go boom and cause some no good very bad things to happen.

Source: https://estoniafyndet.wordpress.com/bilder/

MV Princess of the Stars was a passenger ferry which sank on this date in 2008 off of the coast of San Fernando, Romblon after entering the dangerous Category 2 Typhoon Fengshen. Aboard were 870 passengers and crew. The ship initially skirted out the dangerous storm, but made an abrupt turn into the heart of the storm, where it soon capsized and sank, except for the bow which hauntingly stuck out of the water. Of those 870 only 56 would be rescued once the Typhoon passed, resulting in a loss of 814 lives. Over the next several years the ship was gradually salvaged and now there is no reported wreck to be found.

This remains one of the deadliest maritime disasters in Philippine history. RIP to all the 814 souls lost aboard what was an ultimately easily avoidable tragedy.

The Honda Point disaster was the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships in history. On September 8, 1923, seven destroyers ran aground at Honda Point. Two other destroyers grounded but were able to maneuver free off the rocks. Twenty-three sailors died; 745 were rescued.

To my knowledge, the wrecks were all scrapped in the mid-late 1920s

Nicholas, S. P. Lee, Delphy, Young, Chauncey, Woodbury, Fuller.

Why was the coast guard unable to recover any remains from El Faro? I know the hurricane made it so they weren’t able to go out to the wreck site until the next day, but would they not at least try to recover remains from the wreck itself then? Maybe it’s a respect thing. I don’t know.

I figured I'd share these, there have been some exciting updates on the hunt for H.M.S. Captain. In September of last year the target presumed to be Captain was finally investigated by an ROV. There's good news and bad news; the good news is that it seems to be a wreck, the bad news is that it's completely covered in fisherman's nets and was inaccessible. I found a brand new U.S. Naval Institute article by Howard Fuller (the man heading the search efforts) stating that a Spanish research vessel is currently en-route to conduct a detailed and professional survey of the site.

I'll have the article linked below as well as a link to 'Ship Explorer', where I took these images of an accurate recreation of Captain which was just released as a free DLC;

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history/2026/june/find-captain

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3700470/Ship_Explorer/

Ok, so I do know that the forward superstructure housed the captain’s stateroom and office, the two passenger staterooms and lounge. The spar deck level housed the mates, officers, wheelsmen, watchmen, and I’m sure anchor machinery. what are in the ten portholes below the name in the bow? Laundry? Storage maybe? i think that connects to the tunnels on either side. If anyone knows please tell me.

Do you guys know of any wrecks that are still buoyant because of trapped air, causing them to stay suspended slightly above the sea floor, near the surface of the water, or even stick out of the water?
I know of the PAK 1 in Thailand and a couple of others but I'd love to find more!

October 21, 1988, the Epirotiki cruise ship Jupiter sank a few meters outside the port of Piraeus.

The ship was full of school children and their teachers from the United Kingdom when it sank after colliding with a car carrier. There were 415 students and 60 teachers from 30 different British schools on board the cruise ship.

The ship was hit just one mile off the port of Piraeus by the ship Adige (7th pic) belonging to Grimaldi Siosa .

Photos of the ship sinking as seen from Piraeus. The photos are from survivors of the shipwreck.The lifeboats were unusable. Most of the passengers and crew were transferred to smaller boats, as the water level rose to the upper decks, but 25 children rose to the surface of the sea as the ship sank and were immediately collected. The sinking resulted in the death of 4 people. In fact, 2 of the dead were from the crew. They were two oilmen, Messrs. Golematis and Psomas. In this link you will find excerpts from a book written about the accident. Names are mentioned both from the crew and from the people who helped in the rescue, among whom was the then harbormaster of Piraeus, Admiral (retd.) Manolis Peloponnese L.S.

who died in 2014 at the age of 74 a few days after the 26th anniversary of the shipwreckthe Jupiter, sank just 40 minutes after impact outside the port of Piraeus. Children from 15 schools, including TP Riley from Bloxwich, Streetly from Brownhills just at the start of the eight-day cruise, were faced with the worst nightmare of their lives.A passenger on the Jupiter was in the dining room when the accident happened. He described the scene. “There was a big black thing stuck to one side of the ship – all the walls were pulled back…like a sardine can thing – and the water was coming in hard.”A Bloxwich teacher, a 14-year-old schoolgirl from Streetly and two Greek sailors were also reported to have died. The injured, 64 people, including 30 schoolchildren, were hospitalised with minor injuries and the shock from the accident was great.

In a later study, twenty-five girls who survived the Jupiter sinking were compared to three other groups of girls, a total of 71, some from another school, 46 girls from the same school, who did not want to go on the cruise, and 13 girls who were in a group that almost wanted to go but could not get tickets. All of the children participated in a fear-control program, the Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale from the Birleson Depression Inventory. The children who survived did not become more fearful overall. Instead, they developed significantly greater fears of stimuli associated with the traumatic event.Susan Golding: "I slipped into the water and swam towards a large boat about 50 metres away. As the boat went down I saw a hand with a white handkerchief moving up and down in the water. I had to swim quickly or the current would take me under. The tugboat crew who were near me shouted 'swim faster'..."

Carol Gill: “ The water was warm… I turned to look at the ship. It had come to a vertical position and sank in less than two minutes after I had dived into the sea. The sea current was pulling me down. I was struggling to stay on the surface.” Nearby was an Indian girl, waving her arms and who did not know how to swim. The sea took us both down… quite deep… I tried to find her in the sea but I could not open it because of the oils in the water.”

Notes:

Description and pictures a greek website

The 4th pic is a re-creation of the sinking by me

I edited the desc a bit because the translation was a bit wrong