The Most Dangerous Shipwreck Dive Site on Earth

This is the Andrea Doria. Or, at least it was, when it was still floating. Three years after it was launched in 1956, it collided with another ship and sank to the bottom of the ocean. Unlike the Titanic decades earlier, though, almost all of the ship's 1706 passengers and crew were saved. 46 people would end up dying in the sinking, but a much worse disaster was ultimately averted.

That is not the end of the story, though. After sinking, the ship would come to rest over 200 feet (60 meters) deep on the ocean floor, in remarkably good condition. Divers who explored it in the following few years said it was much the same as when it was on the surface, almost like a time capsule. For this reason, it became popular as a dive destination. But it didn’t stay pristine forever. Salt water and ocean currents have been wearing away at it ever since, breaking it down and making it more dangerous. Sections are collapsing, it’s filled with rope and cables, and it’s impossibly dark in its mazelike corridors, not to mention the depth to reach it and the strong currents in the area. It’s for these reasons that the Andrea Doria Shipwreck has been slowly accumulating a second death toll, possibly making it, the most dangerous shipwreck on earth. These are some of those incidents. As always, viewer discretion is advised.

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