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SMS Cöln

Scapa Flow (Orkney), United Kingdom

A German light cruiser on its starboard side in 36 m, home to shoaling pollock, cod, lobsters and crabs.

SMS Dresden

Scapa Flow (Orkney), United Kingdom

A German wreck lying on its port side at 38 m, with pollock schooling over it in summer and crabs and lobsters in the hull.

SMS König

Scapa Flow (Orkney), United Kingdom

The battleship that led the German line at Jutland, nearly overturned in 38 m, with salvage exposing areas hidden on the others.

SMS Kronprinz Wilhelm

Scapa Flow (Orkney), United Kingdom

A German battleship from 12 m at the hull to 38 m, with half of its 12-inch guns still visible.

SMS Markgraf

Scapa Flow (Orkney), United Kingdom

A 175 m König-class battleship lying almost completely upturned in 45 m and still in superb condition.

SS Conch

Sri Lanka West & South (Colombo to Unawatuna), Sri Lanka

One of the world's first oil tankers, built in 1892 and sunk off Hikkaduwa in 1903, with sweetlips, groupers and Napoleon wrasse.

SS Copenhagen

Southeast Florida (Palm Beach to Miami), United States

A 325 ft steel cargo ship wrecked in 1900 in 6–9 m off Pompano Beach, a State underwater archaeological preserve since 1994.

SS Lady McCullam (Kayankerni Reef)

Trincomalee & East Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka

A 1908 passenger-cargo ship that sank on Kayankerni Reef in 1926, now a 13-15 m wreck popular with new divers.

SS Lord Strathcona

Conception Bay & Bell Island (Newfoundland), Canada

Bell Island wreck with many open swim-throughs, a stern superstructure and a sizeable stern gun.

Sugar Wreck

Bahamas

1800s sugar-ship wreck in 6 m near Tiger Beach, covered in snappers and sweetlips, with resting stingrays and visiting lemon sharks.

Sweepstakes

Tobermory (Fathom Five), Canada

A two-masted 1867 schooner with an intact hull, windlass and part of its bow rail, lying at 7 m in Big Tub Harbour.

The Dredger (Portland Harbour)

Dorset (Portland & Swanage), United Kingdom

A small, broken bucket-dredger wreck in 10-12 m at the foot of Portland's inner breakwater, a habitat for fish, squid and spider crabs.

Thermopylae Sierra Wreck

Sri Lanka West & South (Colombo to Unawatuna), Sri Lanka

Colombo's biggest wreck, a 155 m ship sunk in 2012, with its main deck at 7-12 m and schools of parrotfish, surgeonfish and fusiliers.

USS Emmons

Okinawa & Yonaguni, Japan

106 m WWII warship sunk after five kamikaze hits, resting at 36-45 m off Kouri Island.

Veleiro Yemanjá

Recife & Pernambuco Wrecks, Brazil

Iron sailboat sunk on purpose in May 1999 in front of Pina Beach, lying at 19 m.

W. L. Wetmore

Tobermory (Fathom Five), Canada

A 1901 steamer wreck in 7 m with an impressive boiler, anchor, chain and rudder to find.

Welheim

Gulen (Western Norway), Norway

A 135 m WWII freighter torpedoed in 1944, sloping from her bow at 14 m to the bridge wing at 36 m.

Delsan Wreck

Tubbataha, Philippines

Grey reef sharks hunt fish schools in 'The Cut', a 30 m deep crevasse, when the current runs.

Bristol Blenheim Bomber

Malta, Gozo & Comino, Malta

MV Captain Keith Tibbetts

Cayman Islands

Sankisan Maru

Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia

Shinkoku Maru

Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia

Spiegel Grove

Florida Keys, United States

Tambuli Plane Wreck

Mactan (Cebu), Philippines