Red Island
Nice volcanic reef with often the presence of devil rays.
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Nice volcanic reef with often the presence of devil rays.
Just in front of Jamestown in the north of Saint Helena Island
Anchored in James Bay from August 6th, 1941 and torpedoed October 22nd, 1941. Sunk by German U-boat U-68 during WWII. Oil still leaks from tanks (2012 survey). Many casualties who are remembered on the Cenotaph on the wharf, the vessel is a War Grave. In front of jamestown
Drug-running fishing boat, confiscated, then sunk as artificial reef. Fishing trawler was caught smuggling a large amount of drugs. During the subsequent court case and imprisonment of the captain and crew it was anchored in James Bay, then, in 1994 the St. Helena government finally decided to sink it. It now lies in approximately 30 metres in its starboard side.