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Wreck Dive Kodiak Queen, Virgin Gorda, BVI
The Kodiak Queen, a former Navy fuel barge (YO-44) that survived the attack on Pearl Harbor was purposely sunk on March 2017 to become an underwater art installation and new dive site in the British Virgin Islands.
Historian Mike Cochran found the ship rusting in a Road Town junkyard in 2012. He set up a website in an effort to rescue the ship. British photographer Owen Buggy saw the site and then approached his former boss, Sir Richard Branson, with an idea: to create an artificial reef and art exhibit out of the abandoned barge.
Pior to her sinking artists created a kraken sculpture (a sea monster with 80-foot tentacles) out of mesh and rebar and attached it to the ship’s deck. The sculpture and the Kodiak Queen both survived the massive hurricanes of 2017 but were damaged in one of the biggest series of swells that’s ever occurred in the area.
Kodiak Queen sits in a maximum depth of 57ft off the shore of Virgin Gorda.
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