Wreck Dive
Cristobal Colon, Bermuda
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This 499-foot Spanish luxury liner is the largest known shipwreck in Bermuda’s waters. Launched in 1923, this transatlantic luxury liner was the most advanced design of her time. She was wrecked on October 25, 1936, when she wedged herself into a coral reef at a speed of 15 knots. It crashed into the coral reefs off the Bermuda’s North Shore as the captain wrongly interpreted an offshore communication tower as the Gibbs Hill Lighthouse.
Today, she lies in 30 to 55 feet of water with her wreckage scattered across 100,000 square feet of sea floor.
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