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?
Artificial reefs – a ‘real’ wreck or not?
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Rork Media’s Editorial Director Mark Evans has been in the diving industry for 27 years, and has been diving since he was just 10 years old. Some 40+ years later and he is still addicted to the underwater world.
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.
If a vessel has not been wrecked then it is not a wreck.