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Shipwreck Trail
Explore a trail of historic shipwrecks scattered along the coral reefs of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and buried in the sandy shallows a few miles offshore. These wrecks are strewn over several miles and offer days of adventures as well as lessons in maritime history. The nine ships along this Shipwreck Trail span three centuries represent three broad periods of Keys maritime history: European Colonial, American and Modern.
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Underwater Archaeological Park of Baia
At this submerged archaeological park, visit the wonders of the classical city of Baia – which was an ancient Roman town situated on the northwest shore of the Gulf of Naples, and now in the comune of Bacoli. Previously a prominent resort city for centuries, Baia was abandoned in the 8th century and then submerged underwater. Today the ancient remains of this city can be explored through one of the world’s few underwater archaeological parks. Visitors can view the crumbled structures and amazingly preserved statuary of the city through glass-bottomed boats, while snorkelling, or even during their scuba dives.
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The Underwater Museum of Art
This underwater contemporary art museum is located in the National Marine Park in Cancun and Isla Mujeres area and composed of over 500 submerged sculpted figures based on real people. These sculptures are gathered about ten meters below the sea’s surface in the waters surrounding Cancun, Isla Mujeres, and Punta Nizuc. The museum includes four installations by artist Jason deCaires Taylor and can be seen via glass-bottomed boat tours, snorkelling plus diving routes.
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Museo Atlántico Lanzarote
The underwater Museum Lanzarote “Museo Atlántico” was opened just recently in 2016 to promote education and preserve and protect the marine and natural environment as an integral part of the system of human values. The museum is located 12 metres deep in the pristine waters near the south coast of Lanzarote, in the Bahía de Las Coloradas and hosts 300 individually designed sculptures by British artist Jason de Caires Taylor. Known to be Europe’s first underwater museum, the Museo Atlántico Lanzarote covers a 2,500-square-metre surface that divers and scuba divers have access.
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Herod’s Harbor
The city of Caesarea in Israel that once served as one of the most sophisticated trade ports for the Roman Empire now lies 20 feet below sea level. Opened in 2006, the new underwater museum at Caeserea called the “Herod’s Harbor” focuses one of the largest ports of the Roman Empire, inaugurated in 10 BCE. Visitors float their way through 36 different sign-posted sites to examine different artefacts such as marble columns, anchors, and shipwrecks from Phoenician and Byzantine eras.
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