By Kevin

About ten years ago a cruising sailboat sunk while on its mooring ball at Warderick Wells. The story I heard was that the couple living on the boat left their generator running while they went to dinner on another nearby boat. A fire broke out while the generator was running unattended and they lost the boat. Here is a picture of that boat still sitting in 30 feet of water.  

One thing I’ve noticed through the snorkeling that we are doing is that underwater life will claim anything that sinks to the ocean floor. Whether it is a boat, a 50 gallon drum, or anything else, once it has been sitting on the bottom for a few months, nature takes up roost and plants and fish begin to occupy the new artificial reef.

Warderick has some of the best snorkeling we’ve experienced. The fact that it is a zero-tolerance protected area shows in the number of different wildlife species that are present. And the sheer quantity.