News Travel & Events

Staff · Issue 92, Sep/Oct 2016 · pp. 4–11

Editorial Peter Rowlands peter@uwpmag.com New wrecks Augusto Salgado’s excellent article on the new wreck off Porto Santo, the second biggest island off Madeira, is yet another reminder of how a €345,000 investment in cleaning and making a ship safe to dive will turn into a multi million Euro boost to an island’s economy. It’s not rocket science, really. Everyone wins and there’s now a mature science on how and where to sink these ships upright. I fully accept that they don’t have the history and none of the ‘mystique’ of a traditional wreck but they are a magnet to visiting divers. In addition we have to realise that the wreck diving world is past its prime. In the UK, for example, the James Egan Layne in Whitsand Bay, Cornwall was once the UK equivalent of the SS Thiselgorm in the Red Sea. A World War 11 multi cargo vessel sunk in an easily accessible 25 metres of water with little or …