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MS World Discover: Since the cruise ship MS World Discoverer struck something hard, and half-sank off the shores of Roderick Bay in the Solomon Islands in 2000, it’s become a tourist attraction for passing ships (all passengers, it should be pointed out, were helped to safety). Gently rusting away, the ship looks like it turned on its side, and went to sleep.Santa Maria: A rigged model of Christopher Columbus’ Santa Maria, which sank off the coast of Haiti on Christmas Eve, 1492. The wreck is still down there, somewhere.Flor de la Mar: A replica of the Portuguese ship, the Flor de la Mar, stands in front of the Maritime Museum in Malacca, Malaysia. This 16th-century merchant ship shuttled between India and its home in Portugal. Laden with treasures, it went down in a heavy storm off Sumatra, Indonesia in 1511.SS Waratah: The SS Waratah is known as ‘Australia’s Titanic.’ A passenger cargo ship built to travel between Europe and Australia, it disappeared shortly after steaming off from the city of Durban in present-day South Africa in 1909. The entire liner, which was carrying 211 passengers and crew, has never been found.USS Indianapolis: The Indianapolis was chosen to transport the uranium core of the ‘Little Boy’ nuclear bomb to Tinian Island, where the weapon was assembled shortly before being used to devastating effect on Hiroshima. On its return journey, the Indianapolis was hit by a Japanese sub. It was finally located in 2017 — 18,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific.São José: A man takes a picture of a pulley block, one of several recovered artifacts brought up from the sunken São José slave ship at the Slave Lodge Museum in Cape Town. The ship went down off the coast of South Africa in 1794.Uluburun: Mehmed Çakir was diving for sponges off the coast of Yalıkavak, Turkey in 1982 when he happened upon the remains of a trading ship that had sunk 3,000 years ago. Since then, over 22,400 dives have taken place to recover the long-lost treasures of the Uluburun. Some of the horde can now be seen at the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology.The Vasa: Eerily intact, the 17th-century warship Vasa first set sail in 1628. The Swedish behemoth made it about 1,300 meters out of port before it went down, and was only pulled from its silty grave some 333 years later. It now sits in a dedicated museum that opened in Stockholm in 1990.MV Captayannis: Spied from the banks of the River Clyde at Greenock in Scotland, you might mistake the wreck of the MV Captayannis for a recently demised whale. The ship went down in a squall in January 1974. It’s said no one took responsibility for the so-called ‘sugar boat,’ hence why it’s still wedged into a sandbank.Chuuk Lagoon: On this sprinkling of islands 1,000 miles northeast of Papua New Guinea, the Japanese set up their most formidable World War II naval base — that is, until Operation Hailstone was launched in 1944, with Allied forces sending some 60 Japanese ships and aircraft to a watery grave. With most of them still down there, Chuuk Lagoon has become a subaquatic museum for divers.
