Malakoff wreck

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In bad weather, the ocean-going, French-owned cargo steamer ‘Malakoff’ hit a submerged rock formation in January 1929 and sank within only 7 minutes. Today this famous wreck stands upright on a sandy bottom at some 130 ft. / 40 m. depth, the deck level being at 105 ft. / 32 m. In the Fifties, all of the ship’s structures above deck level have been blown up by salvage divers. Nowadays, the ‘Malakoff’ forms a fully colonized artificial reef some 105 metres long, home to an outstanding fish life a…

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