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Fujikawa Maru

Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia

Akitsushima

Coron, Philippines

MS Zenobia

Larnaca, Cyprus

Rio de Janeiro Maru

Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia

Amoco Cadiz

Finistère (Brest, Crozon & Glénan), France

The 334 m supertanker Amoco Cadiz lies broken across 600 m of seabed off Portsall, its rudder, winches and decks draped in kelp.

City of Westminster (Runnel Stone)

Plymouth & South Cornwall, United Kingdom

A 1923 wreck on the Runnel Stone off Land's End, plastered with miniature plumose anemones and home to huge ballan wrasse.

Glen Strathallan

Plymouth & South Cornwall, United Kingdom

A ship deliberately sunk for divers, now a 15 m debris field around an upright boiler with cuttlefish, tompot blennies and octopus.

HMT Elk

Plymouth & South Cornwall, United Kingdom

A small 1902 trawler sunk in 30 m, compact enough to swim around twice, with congers and lobsters in the wreckage.

Le Dellec

Finistère (Brest, Crozon & Glénan), France

A wreck lying flat on a sandy bottom at around 15 m, among the many wrecks between the Brest roadstead and Le Conquet.

Sea Tiger Wreck

Oahu, United States

A 190-foot cargo ship sitting upright in 100 feet of water a short boat ride from Waikiki, visited by turtles, eagle rays and reef sharks.

SS Somali

Farne Islands & St Abbs, United Kingdom

A WWII cargo ship lying in 30 m off Beadnell, where a large shoal of pollack can often be seen swimming above the engine.

Superior Producer

Curaçao

A cargo ship sunk in 1977 that sits upright at 30 m and draws schools of tarpon, barracuda and jacks.

Swansea Vale

Finistère (Brest, Crozon & Glénan), France

An English cargo ship lost in 1918, now a wreck dive in the Brest area at around 28-31 m.

Themis Wreck (Croker Rock)

Port Hardy & God's Pocket, Canada

Broken wreck of the 270-foot freighter Themis on Croker Rock, sheltering octopuses, giant lingcod, king crabs and wolf eels.

YO-257

Oahu, United States

A former Navy Yard Oiler that served in WWII and the Korean War, sunk off Waikiki in 1989 and visited by turtles, eagle rays and reef sharks.

Bianca C

Grenada, Italy

The 'Titanic of the Caribbean': the region's largest wreck, where divers can float around the liner's on-deck swimming pool.

Bristol Beaufighter

Malta, Gozo & Comino, Malta

WWII Beaufighter lying upside down on sand at 38 m, about 900 m off St Julian's Point, ditched in March 1943.

C-58 Wreck (General Pedro María Anaya)

Cancún & Isla Mujeres, Mexico

Former US minesweeper Harlequin, scuttled off Cancún in two pieces, where eagle rays shelter during winter.

Carthaginian II

Maui, United States

A former Lahaina whaling-museum ship scuttled in 2005 at 30 m, now a reef where frogfish can be found all over the hull.

Chief Dragon (Car Wreck)

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

A 112 m car carrier sunk in 1983, with coral-covered car chassis on its deck at 24-28 m and trevally and barracuda around it.

Churchill Barrier 2 blockships

Scapa Flow (Orkney), United Kingdom

Shallow shore dive (1-10 m) among about eleven blockships beside Churchill Barrier 2, best at high tide.

Corsair

Oahu, United States

WWII Vought F4U Corsair fighter at about 33 m, Oahu's most famous true wreck.

Dalarö Wreck (Bodekull)

Stockholm Archipelago & Dalarö, Sweden

Wreck at about 30 m with its rudder still in place and one of its two masts still standing.

Doña Marilyn Wreck

Malapascua, Philippines

Inter-island ferry lost in a 1988 storm, lying on its starboard side at up to 32 m; partly broken up by salvagers in 2018.