Dive Aggi Wreck, Santa Rosa Island, California

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Aggi (#102136) (1894-1915), 265-foot Scottish-built three-masted steel-hulled barkentine launched in 1894 as Aspice. The vessel had several owners during her first decade, and by 1909 she was under Norwegian ownership and named Aggie Norge. On May 3, 1915 she was under tow by the Edgar Vance, bound for Sweden from San Francisco, with a cargo of 600 tons of beans and 2500 tons of barley. Just out of San Francisco, the vessels encountered a storm, and the Edgar Vance released Aggi. In the next few days, Aggi’s cargo shifted, and on May 4, the storm tossed her on the shore off Santa Rosa Island. Captain Ira Eaton rescued the crew and brought them to Santa Barbara, while Aggi Captain Anskar Olsen remained aboard with his first mate. Santa Barbara’s Flying A Film Company was taken to the wreck site by Captain Rosaline Vasquez aboard Otter to film the shipwreck. Aggi was sold to the Universal Film Company, who in turn sold her salvage rights to the Newmark Grain Company of Los Angeles. The majority of the wreckage lies in 20 to 30 feet of water in Talcott shoals, with some debris reaching depths of 50'. Given its location on the island, visibility averages 25'+ and may even exceed 50'. The wreckage is heavily overgrown and hard to recognize. In 1967, one of her two large anchors was salvaged by Santa Barbara mariner, Glenn Miller, and donated the the Santa Barbara Historical Society where it is on display outside.

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