Wreck
Presently off the Florida Keys, the ship continues to serve society, however, as an artificial reef. The Wilkes-Barre is a popular deep wreck diving site that is split into two sections. The bow rests on the starboard side with the gun turrets resting at 253 feet. The stern rests upright with the deck at 200 feet. Visibility on the wreck can range from 20 feet to over 100 feet though it is normally only 40 feet. This huge wreck abounds with marine life, artifacts and a fascinating history.
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Famous quotes containing the word wreck:
“Perchance the time will come when we shall not be content to go back and forth upon a raft to some huge Homeric or Shakespearean Indiaman that lies upon the reef, but build a bark out of that wreck and others that are buried in the sands of this desolate island, and such new timber as may be required, in which to sail away to whole new worlds of light and life, where our friends are.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.”
—June Jordan (b. 1939)
“And such the trust that still were mine,
Though stormy winds swept o’er the brine,
Or though the tempest’s fiery breath
Roused me from sleep to wreck and death.
In ocean cave, still safe with Thee
The germ of immortality!
And calm and peaceful shall I sleep,
Rocked in the cradle of the deep.”
—Emma Hart Willard (1787–1870)