Cristobal Colon

Bermuda's biggest shipwreck is less a hull than a debris field the size of a village. The Cristóbal Colón, a Spanish transatlantic liner, ran hard onto the northern barrier reef in 1936, and wartime target practice plus eighty years of storms have spread her boilers, propellers, and hull plates across a broad reach of coral heads and sand gullies in mostly shallow water. Divers navigate from set piece to set piece, each colonized into reef, with parrotfish and barracuda supervising. One dive samples her; a second, on the far side of the field, still shows you new machinery.

اللحظة التي جئت من أجلها: Vast scattered liner wreckage, shallow bright conditions, machinery turned reef

التضاريس: Coral heads and sand gullies across the northern barrier reef

نقطة الدخول: A long boat run across the lagoon to the northern barrier reef; dived in settled weather.

المخاطر: Breaking seas over the barrier reef in swell; sharp plating in the shallows.

الحفاظ على البيئة البحرية: Bermuda's historic wrecks are legally protected; artifacts stay where they lie.