Wreck Alley is an area a few miles off the coast of Mission Beach, San Diego, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

 with several ships intentionally sunk as artificial reefs

Sinking ships for wreck diving sites

Sinking ships for wreck diving sites is the practice of scuttling old ships to produce artificial reefs suitable for wreck diving, to benefit from commercial revenues from recreational diving of the shipwreck, or to produce a diver training site....

 and as SCUBA diving

Scuba diving

Scuba diving is a form of underwater diving in which a diver uses a scuba set to breathe underwater....

 attractions for wreck divers

Wreck diving

Wreck diving is a type of recreational diving where shipwrecks are explored. Although most wreck dive sites are at shipwrecks, there is an increasing trend to scuttle retired ships to create artificial reef sites...

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Wrecks

Six of these were intentionally sunk.

• Ruby E. – Coast Guard cutter
• El Rey – kelp harvester
• Yukon – a Canadian navy ship
• Shooter's Fantasy
• Barge #1
• Strider
• NOSC Tower – a research and communication platform that collapsed during a storm
• P-38

British Virgin Islands

In the British Virgin Islands

British Virgin Islands

The Virgin Islands, often called the British Virgin Islands , is a British overseas territory and overseas territory of the European Union, located in the Caribbean to the east of Puerto Rico. The islands make up part of the Virgin Islands archipelago, the remaining islands constituting the U.S...

, there is another collection of intentionally sunk wrecks for scuba divers, also referred to as "wreck alley", a couple of hundred yards offshore from Cooper Island

Cooper Island (British Virgin Islands)

The island lies adjacent to "wreck alley", a popular wreck diving site in the British Virgin Islands where a number of vessels have been deliberately sunk as dive sites. A local dive store near the beach club rents tanks to certified scuba divers.-External links:...

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