by Roger Blum
Explore the St George Shipwreck in Bayahibe
The crystal clear, calm waters of the Caribbean Sea are one of the best scuba diving destinations in the world. Bayahibe being the best location for scuba in the Dominican Republic. There are three shipwrecks in the area including the Atlantic Princess, Coco and St George.
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The St George Wreck is the most favorite dive site in the Bayahibe area. The wreck is located at a depth of 44 m / 144 ft, but the top of the wreck is only at 15 m / 50 ft.
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The ship was originally known as the M.V Norbrae and was built 1962 in Scotland to transport wheat and barley between Norway and Americas. It was used for 20 years and abandoned in Santo Domingo port after.
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The ship was renamed St George after the hurricane Georges that hit Dominican republic (and the whole Caribbean and the gulf of Mexico) in September 1998.
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In June 1999 the ship was sunk about a half mile (800 m) off the Viva Dominicus beach. Now it’s a great artificial reef, home to schools of many different fish, from lion fish to barracudas and huge green moray eels
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More experienced divers are swimming through St George wreck to explore the wreck and all its rooms.
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Meet The Bull Sharks
The real reason I went to Mexico was actually to photograph the fauna and flora in freshwater cavern areas far away from the ocean. Here in the jungle, there are colorful cichlids, tooth carp, catfish and tetrasa, all of which we know from our native aquariums, as well as blind cave fish and turtles. But I was drawn to the ocean when I was given the opportunity by a small group of adventurous divers to swim with bull sharks.
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The Airplane Wrecks of Renaissance Island (Aruba)
It is possible to find A Convair CV 240 lying some 300 meters off the shores of Aruba’s Renaissance Island at a depth of only 12 meters. This particular machine is said to have been confiscated at the end of the 1980s during a drug raid. Just a few breaststrokes away from the Convair wreck lies the remains of a former YS-11 passenger aircraft, one of three models employed by Air Aruba for scheduled flights in 1988. Following the bankruptcy of Air Aruba in October 2000, the YS-11 found a new purpose as an artificial reef.
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