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Artificial reefs – a ‘real’ wreck or not?

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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?

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Mark Saxby
Mark Saxby
1 year ago

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.

Neil Turton
Neil Turton
1 year ago

If a vessel has not been wrecked then it is not a wreck.

Mark Evans
Mark Evans
Scuba Diver's Editorial Director Mark Evans has been in the diving industry for nearly 25 years, and has been diving since he was just 12 years old. nearly 40-odd years later and he is still addicted to the underwater world.
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