Dry Tortugas, Florida, United States
The Windjammer Wreck is the popular name for the remains of the Avanti, a 76-metre Norwegian iron-hulled three-masted barque that ran aground on Loggerhead Reef in the Dry Tortugas in January 1907 while carrying timber from Pensacola to Montevideo, Uruguay. All hands made it to nearby Loggerhead Key and were eventually rescued. The wreck has broken up but the iron ribs, plating and the famous bow remain clearly recognisable in just 4 to 6 metres of water inside Dry Tortugas National Park. It is a popular snorkel-and-shallow-dive site on the Yankee Freedom day trip from Key West and on liveaboard itineraries. Marine life is dense: nurse sharks dozing under the plate sections, large jewfish (goliath grouper) over the sand, spotted eagle rays, large schools of grunts and schoolmasters, queen and grey angelfish, hawksbill turtles, and the occasional barracuda. Visibility regularly exceeds 25 metres. The site is inside a no-take park; nothing may be removed.
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