The French cargo steamer SS Maine sank on 2 April 1914 and is known locally as the Perrier Wreck for the mineral water bottles still associated with the site.
Dive This Wreck The wreck at grid TR2872937867, off Dover, behaves like a suspect who cannot keep his story straight. The strongest named candidate for this exact grid is Helene. The…
Dive This Wreck There are wrecks that announce themselves. They arrive in the record with clean dates, tidy causes, and a clerk’s confidence. SM UB-78 did no such thing. She…
Friday 29th, Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st May 2026 Fancy three days of proper Dover wreck diving with free Nitrox thrown in? We’ve lined up a cracking five-dive weekender for…
Some wrecks come with a grand title, a tragic story and enough paperwork to keep a maritime historian quietly twitching for a week. Then there’s the Varne Wreck.It’s called the…
Dive This Wreck Lying around 5 miles south of Dover, the wrecks of SS Laristan and SV Denbighshire form one of the Channel’s more unusual dive sites. Two vessels, lost…
Dive This Wreck HMT Étoile Polaire had a short and brutal career. She was built by J. T. Eltringham & Co. at Willington Quay, yard number 308, launched on 4…
Dive This Wreck In 1864, the sailing vessel Mindora met her end in the busy waters of the English Channel, a stretch of sea that has claimed countless ships through…
Dive This Wreck On 24 May 1953, the Swedish motor vessel Andaman was on passage from Gothenburg to Calcutta when she collided in thick fog with the Panamanian freighter Fortune…
Dive This Wreck There are ships that become famous because they were large, modern, or victorious. HMS Flirt was none of those things. She was a small, hard-worked, pre-war destroyer,…
