Scuba Diver Editor-in-Chief Mark Evans is a dedicated wreckhead, and here he talks about wrecks – both genuine shipwrecks (maritime accidents and wartime incidents) and artificial reefs – and discusses why purpose-sunk wrecks are sometimes derided as not being ‘genuine' wrecks. But is this fair?
Surely the point of artificial reefs is first to be a reef.
The fact that they are wrecks that attract divers is a positive side-effect, not their purpose.
If a vessel has not been wrecked then it is not a wreck.