Alexander Mustard, an adventurous British photographer, has traveled the world photographing sunken wrecks. While observing these photos, note the clear water quality of the Caribbean and the Red Sea in contrast to the merky ambient of the bottom of an English quarry.
A diver approaches the bow of the former Navy ship, USS KITTIWAKE, built in 1945, decomissioned and sunk this year off the Cayman Islands, south of Cuba. The sunken vessel will serve as a tourist dive site and artificial reef.
A school of horse-eye jacks swims past the KITTIWAKE as a diver hovers above the wreck.
A diver "steers" the wheel in the wheelhouse of the KITTIWAKE on a trip to nowhere.
A pair of divers explores the 300 foot long Greek cargo ship, GIANNIS D, which struck Abu Nuhas Reef on the Red Sea, and floundered in 1983. This wreck is one of the largest found in the Red Sea. Observe the step ladder on the stern of the vessel to give a scale size of the vessel.
Holding an underwater camera, a diver looks through the port hole of the stricken Greek freighter, GIANNIS D, resting on the bottom of the Red Sea.
A barnacle covered motorcycle rests inside the cargo hold of the of the HMS THISTLEGORM, sunk in the Red Sea in 1941 by German bombers. The ship's carge hold contained motorcycles, army trucks, rifles, small arms ammunition and artillary shells destined for British troops, perhaps for the battle of Tubruk in the Western Egyptian Desert.
The shell of VW beetle that was purposely sunk in the flooded former Caperwray Quarry in Lancashire, England as an attraction for curious divers.
Story and photos by the Solent News for the Daily Mail, as presented by Lost Treasures of the Seven Seas. Courtesy of Crackers Nautical News
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