Northwest Wreck Dives

Northwest Wreck Dives by Scott Boyd. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780982151013.

Hidden beneath the dark waters of Puget Sound lays a rich maritime history waiting to be discovered by adventurous divers. Shipwrecks from the Mosquito Fleet and the glory days of sail are fascinating journeys back into history. The authors have compiled and released the history and GPS locations of more than one hundred northwest wrecks. Northwest Wreck Dives provides fascinating historical backgrounds, maps and the precise positions of clipper ships, tramp steamers, passenger ferries and many of the grand vessels that plied the waters of the Inland Sea. The oldest wreck in the book sank more than 125 years ago after the clipper ship had made more than ten runs "round the horn" from New York to San Francisco and back. "The 7,700 ton, Panamanian-flagged tramp streamer Andalusia was west bound in the Strait of Juan de Fuca with a cargo of 5 million board feet of lumber from British Columbia. Captain George Lemos was soundly sleeping in his bed when he was awakened at 4:25 AM on November 4th, 1949 with word that there was fire in the engine room. Fearing for the lives of his crew, the captain turned south and headed for a nice looking beach about 3 miles east of Neah Bay";. --- Excerpt from the book Northwest Wreck Dives, by Scott Boyd and Jeff Carr, 2008.