Shipwreck Central
Matt Haughey, August 24th, 2004
Shipwreck Central is a companion site for a team of divers that explore various shipwrecks around the world. They host live chats, teaching aids, and information about shows they’ve made from diving footage. For the bits of downloadable audio and video, they’ve chosen a Creative Commons license and their copyright page explains why, even though they are a somewhat commercial endeavor:
We have thought long and hard about copyright issues here at Shipwreck Central. As creators we spend a lot of time, effort and money recording and editing the material you see here, and of course we wish to protect our copyright from unfair and unlicensed commercial use. However we are also aware that there are new cultural and technological dynamics at play which may result in legitimate creative and educational uses of our video that would not be possible under strict copyright laws.
For this reason we have decided to go with a Creative Commons license for the video and audio available in the free areas of Shipwreck Central. Information about the Creative Commons License can be found below.
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For information: The site shown on Google Earth for the wreck of HMS Dasher is incorrect. The actual site lies midway between Ardrossan on the Ayrshire coast and Brodick on the Isle of Arran in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland.
The position of the shipwreck Jane Sea is incorrect (east of Bermuda) and also the story of the ship seems not complying with that told by other sources (http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8898). Anyway, the wreck of Jane Sea is here: gYdmIY6A.htm.part or: 12˚29’11,49″ N and 70˚1’49,66″ W
I’ve been in Aruba on November 26th 2010 and can swore that she’s still there. :-)
Some wrecks in SF bay say “off the coast of CA”.. In SF BAY would be better.
The location of the wreck of the Antilla is off by a few thousand km’s. You place her in the Alboran channel in between Tangier and Gibraltar, Mediterranean sea; in the text reference is made to it having sunk off Aruba, one of the dutch ABC Leewards in the caribbean sea.
Re; Antilla: and it’s misplaced in the med a second time: right off Malaga
The wreck of the USS Utah is shown off the southern coast of Oahu but it is most definitely still in Pearl Harbor. Most people don’t know that it is there because everyone is focused on the USS Arizona. A significant portion of the Utah actually protrudes from the surface and when I was living on Ford Island there were some grasses growing on it. There is also a small memorial and a flag pole that is maintained by the inmates at the Ford Island Brig which is nearby, as I recall the inmates are responsible for raising and lowering the flag there each day.
The wreck of the IJMN ship Yamato is incorrectly located near the island of Guam(?) It should be in the East China Sea SW of the island of Kyushu, Japan.
The Edmund Fitzgerald is not even listed on google earth
I am from Barbados, and over the years I have repeatedly heard of a ship that was torpedoed by a U-Boat through the anti-submarine nets in Carlisle Bay – that is between Bridgetown and Needham’s Point – during the second World War, and may still be a dive today (although I’m not sure how much is left of it). That is not marked as a shipwreck on Google Earth.
I also lived for 16 years in Antigua – the island north of Guadeloupe – and several of the old-timers occasionally spoke of a sunken U-Boat nearby which constantly leaked mercury and they would not eat fish caught north of the island. They all refused to divulge the location. And that is not marked as a shipwreck on Google Earth either, although there should be some record of the sinking somewhere other than in their memories.
Wilhelm Gustloff
Sunk: January 30, 1945
On ‘Google Earth’ the ‘Loss of life’ is stated as 0. Nothing could be farther from the truth – this is the wreck/sinking with the highest loss of life ever – over 10,000 German refugees, naval personnel, and wounded soldiers.
Correct this information immediately!
SS Atlantus isn’t on Google Earth. It’s offshore about 60-100 yards from Sunset Beach, NJ.
responce to jim lynch. book by axel niestle on german u-boat losses says U156 sunk east of barbados, 12*38n/54*39w. U162 sunk N.E of Trinidad 12*21n/59*29w. U572 sunk N.E of Trinidad 11*35n/54*05w. U615 sunk N.E of Curacao 12*38n/64*15w
The El Grillo shipwreck is showing in the middle of the Arabian Sea, yet the description says it sunk in the Seydisfjordur on the east coast of Iceland.
Wreck of TSS Kanowna shown in Bathurst Harbour which is about 600km from where it was actually wrecked off Wilsons Promontory. Are all your wrecks on Google Earth this porly placed? perhaps you should rectify the problem!!!!!
The wreck of the Rainbow Warrior is incorrectly placed. It is actually at 34º58.50′ S, 173º56.10′ E. Please correct.
you have the ‘el grillo’ listed as off e. coast of iceland but shown in indian ocean????
also the scrambled words to type out are impossible to decipher