The infamous Black Pearl, this one built as a steel-hulled prop for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, has been sunk as an artificial reef in nearly 22m of water off the coast of Panama City Beach.
The 30-metre vessel, which looks a little different now to the instantly recognisable pirate ship in the movies, was sent to the bottom about six nautical miles southwest of St Andrews Pass, joining a veritable fleet of some 800 purpose-sunk ships.
It was sunk with the assistance of students from Tom P Haney Technical College, who welded steel flags, cannons, ship’s wheel, treasure chest and more ‘booty’ to the vessel to give it more of a pirate-feel.
Visit PCB Artificial Reef Co-ordinator and Resource Manager Erin Graham commented: “This is going to be a great dive opportunity for people – it’s a very safe, easy swim with a shallow depth.
“This was designated for a movie prop, so it did not have a lot of the grease buildup, the engine, the fuel, everything that is required to remove for artificial reefs. So this was a prime artificial reef vessel.”
Photo credit: Tom P Haney Technical College
Someone will make a deal with Davy Jones to bring it back up.
The Pearl ended up in Davy Jones locker again.
I guess she just needs to wait for the green flash again.
Where is the bloody rum?
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I find this totally disgusting, if I THROW a bag of trash into the Ocean I would be finded and it would be polluting. The Government calls it a artificial reef and they are proud of it. This is BULL S– — T. Trash is Trash no matter how much Perfume dump on it!
You don’t get it…
This “vessel” has been cleaned from all of its polluting components and sank for the purpose of generating a new habitat for corals, fish and other sea creatures, when it’s not to try attracting animals who disappeared from an area because their habitat had been destroyed because of human activities.
It will also attract divers from all around the world who will want to safely visit a wreck l and the nature it will host in the future.
It’s a technique which is in use for decades and which proved to work extremely well for all (sea fauna, sea flora and tourists).
Your bag of trash, as you say, won’t be beneficial to that, plus, it will damage the ecosystem as it will poison the fauna and flea when it will decompose in microplastic,…
More responsible citizens need permit to carry legally, its a shooting gallery for the criminals if citizens can’t defend themselves.
Why I carry every day. What I carry for a pistol varies depending on what I am doing. At home a little 380, out and about either a Gold Cup or a Browning HiPower.. If I am about to start up a trail into the mountains I am wearing my Glock 40 MOS in10mm in a chest harness. Different jobs- different tools
Really. In the uk you dont need all those guns. You must live a scary life if you really need to carry arms in your own country.
Meanwhile the UK is experiencing all the heinous crimes due to mass immigration. Surely you’ve been aware of the happenings in your country?
Not to mention the UK government is trying to implement Digital ID, with the goal of censorship and control. UK citizens have been getting arrested and jailed over tweets on social media.
You get arrested over praying near baby murdering centers, which is very silly. An old person gets fined over spitting out a leaf.
Despite gun control, criminals in the UK have used machetes against UK people.
Honestly it’s very frustrating seeing people like you who think gun control really works, when in reality it doesn’t! Your useful to the government.
Plus the only way to enforce gun control is to use police force, who have guns, to take away good, law abiding people’s guns away from them, through the use of force with guns. Or using the Military to forcefully take away gun ownership with the threat of force via guns.
So it’s not that your against guns entirely, you just only want government officials such as the police or military to own guns. You don’t trust the majority of the public with handling guns safely, or to use them responsibly and morally.
You think the public are too incompetent to be allowed anywhere near guns. That they’ll hurt themselves or others unintentionally. You think gun owners don’t care for safety and just wave them around for fun?
If that were true, we should be seeing news about whole heaps of people dying everyday in USA due to gun related incidents, like a massive genocide.
But that’s not quite what we see…
DGU (Defense Gun Use) is about 2 million or higher each year in the USA IIRC. The CDC published it, but was then removed due to gun control activists pressuring them to remove it, as it countered the gun control narrative.
Even the author of the study said that they hid it for politically motivated reasons.
Not all DGU resulted in death either, just the sight deterred criminals.
Good people with guns is useful in protecting us from bad people with guns.
Had we had the 2nd amendment in Australia, the recent tragedy could have been stopped earlier, saving some lives. Sure, not everyone would carry a gun to the beach, however, there would have been some people in the area armed, who weren’t planning on going to the beach.
Gun control only affects innocents. Criminals by definition don’t follow the laws. You can restrict or outright ban guns, but they’ll find a way around the law to obtain illegal firearms anyway.
But also, it’ll just lead criminals into using other objects to kill us with, such as machetes, or other makeshift objects.
Pro Gun control people always blame the object, rather than the perpetrator welding the object in a evil way. The source of the problem isn’t the object, it’s the person.
As long as we don’t address the core problem, death will continue to happen in many other ways, weather it’s machetes, knives, fire, acid or cars and trucks.
If they want to kill us, they will find a way to do so. And if they really want guns, they will obtain them illegally.
I say all this, but unfortunately it won’t convince you or anyone who seem too afraid of guns. It’s like you treat them as ticking time bombs, ready to go off at any moment.
But you don’t have to fear them if you know how to handle them. The same with knives, or any other item that could kill.
Gun free zones I hear are hit badly with criminals, they’re unsafe places to be. Which makes sense. Criminals know everyone in the area are defenseless and vulnerable. Easy pickings for slaughter.
But not in areas where concealed carry is allowed. Criminals risk their lives in such areas, they have to be cautious.
You know what annoys me though? How almost no one in Australia seems interested in wanting the PAM (Port Arthur Massacre) documents released publicly. It’s been sealed for 75 years, practically a lifetime!
Doesn’t anyone find that suspicious? Why hide such documents? They allow us to watch documentaries on it, but we can’t read them???
Doesn’t anyone want to see it, at least for historical and teaching purposes?
There’s conspiracy theories surrounding the whole thing. If you wish for the conspiracy theories to be put to a stop once and for all, and to fully disprove them all wrong, and if the official narrative related to the massacre is true, there’s an easy simple way to end the debate forever.
Just release the documents. It should prove the official narrative true, and render all conspiracy theories to be just that, conspiracy theories.
So simple… Yet it’ll never happen, because no one cares apparently. The government wouldn’t dare release them either.
The only people living in fear are defenseless, vulnerable people, who can’t defend themselves or families effectively from Islamic terrorists invading every country.
There’s nothing wrong with wanting to own an effective self defense weapon, to keep yourself, friends and family safe from violent criminals. You may see it as living in fear, but I don’t see why that’s a problem? So what if that we’re the case? At least they can protect themselves if they ever need to.
In the UK and here, if we’re up against such criminals, there’s nothing we can do but run. And if they have a gun? We’re completely at their mercy.
When seconds count, and the police aren’t there to save you, what then?
Though personally, I’d love to die…
Anyway, as demonstrated by the recent tragedy, gun control failed. With how strict the laws are, they still committed a gun crime somehow!?
And now the PM wants more gun control? As if that’ll do anything, ehehe… It won’t, not for criminals anyways. For law abiding people? It will affect us negatively.
And then another fun crime will happen, more gun control, over and over, until the last straw would be to outright ban gun ownership altogether, that’s where it’ll lead to. Because if all the previous gun control laws didn’t prevent gun crimes, then they’ll just delete the guns outright.
But guess what? Criminals will ignore the law. They will still find a way to obtain illegal guns anyway, or kill us all with various other objects. The problem still persists…
Anyway, gun crimes still occur here in Australia despite the ban. More people now than before own guns too IIRC. There was even a gun crime that happened to one of my neighbors a dew months back.
I think it was bikie related? I remember hearing the gun shot sound, but thought it was something else. But it was a gun that fired. So even in my area there are people committing gun crimes.
I assume none of what I said has convinced you why gun control is bad. I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree.
I use to be anti gun, but now I’m pro 2A. If I were PM, I’d find a way to copy/paste the US constitution here.
Horseshit MAGA 2A nonsense. And what does this have to do with an article on artificial reefs?
Irrelevant to the article nutjob. I support responsible gun ownership but this is comment is, as I said before, irrelevant to the article
We need the 2A in Australia.