More rusting metal in the Caymans
Jun. 5th, 2019 05:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tiggymalvern
Another completely different kind of wreck, this time the Oro Verde, once the 171-foot long USS Palm Beach that went into private hands after she was decommisioned as a spy vessel. She ended her life as a banana transport ship with a side in marijuana smuggling, and she grounded on a Grand Cayman reef in 1976.
Four years later, she was towed off the reef and sunk in a sandy area. Since 1980, various hurricanes moved her back towards the reef and bashed her to pieces on it. She's now a scattered debris field alongside a beautiful section of reef, and a really nice, varied dive. Oh, and someone put some bicycles down there too, because it seemed like a good idea at the time?
Four years later, she was towed off the reef and sunk in a sandy area. Since 1980, various hurricanes moved her back towards the reef and bashed her to pieces on it. She's now a scattered debris field alongside a beautiful section of reef, and a really nice, varied dive. Oh, and someone put some bicycles down there too, because it seemed like a good idea at the time?
