Theos

There is one undeniable fact about divers that seems to be common to all - if you throw a coke can in the water, every diver that passes will pick it up to look at it. There seems to be a completely irrational mystique about anything once it is subsurface. Throw a school bus in and everybody will flock to it to swim through. Of course, this mystique is quadrupled if the sunken item is a ship (Second place goes to airplanes.). There are now so many wrecks or purposely sunken ships around the world, it’s hard to find a resort that doesn’t sport their own personal sunken ship. The claim is usually that we are creating ‘artificial reefs’ for marine life (Like they don’t have enough.) and this is in part true, but more often than not they are sunken to attract the air breathing forms of marine life - divers.

Now, don’t misunderstand me, I’m not complaining! I’ll be the first to hit the water and head straight for these underwater theme parks. I’ve lost track of the number of ships I’ve been on in my 59 years of diving, and I’m sure to keep diving them. There IS something truly fascinating about swimming through a ship like Theos which was purposely sunk and is at too deep a depth to be considered an artificial reef. Yes, it does attract a large contingent of sea life which gives it back a life of it’s own. Theos was sunk in 110 feet of water on a sand shelf which is only a short distance from the dropoff into deep water. Theos actually was almost lost over the edge when she was first sunk and last year during the hurricane which devastated a lot of Freeport, she moved closer. It’s possible she may be driven over the edge some day and lost to divers forever.

UNEXSO     Seastar     Ben’s Cave     Sharks     Dolphins

Reef     Invaders