Wreck Alley is an area a few miles off the coast of Mission Beach, San Diego, California with several ships intentionally sunk as artificial reefs and as Scuba diving attractions for wreck divers.
Metridium Anemone on the wreck of HMCS Yukon
Aggregating Anemone
Electrical Panel in the Yukon wreck
Strawberry Anemones on Ruby E
Sinking ships for wreck diving sites
Sinking ships for wreck diving sites is the practice of scuttling old ships to produce artificial reefs suitable for wreck diving, to benefit from commercial revenues from recreational diving of the shipwreck, or to produce a diver training site.
Explosives detonating to sink the former HMNZS Wellington (F69) in 2005
Scuttling of MT Hephaestus off Xatt l-Aħmar, Gozo, Malta on 29 August 2022