EXPLORING THE SAPONA SHIPWRECK | Sailboat Story 104
March 14, 2019 by Sailboat Story | Language: EN Play Time: 00:13:02 | SAILING YOUTUBERS
We’ve wanted to snorkel the shipwreck of the SS Sapona ever since learning about it 3 years ago. Our time has finally come to explore this nearly 100 year old wreck so we sail our sailboat right up along next to the Sapona and we lay anchor.
This shipwreck is located about 2 miles South of Bimini and is sitting in 15 feet of water. It’s a concrete hulled steam ship that ran aground during a hurricane in 1926.
In addition to being smashed by nearly 100 years of storms and hurricanes, the SS Sapona shipwreck was used for target practice by the US military! Suffice it to say that this wreck has had a HARD life. All things considered, it’s truly amazing that so much of it is left standing after all this time.
We loved snorkeling the Sapona. It was also really cool that we were able to row our dinghy right inside it despite the winds blowing 15 knots and the conditions being quite choppy.
Hopefully the drone footage of the SS Sapona wreck throughout this video helps to communicate how large and intact the vessel still is. It’s a very impressive shipwreck and we thoroughly enjoyed our time with the SS Sapona.
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