wreck diving

Who, when kid, didn't dream in finding a sunked galleon, full of treasures, even if it was protected by starving sharks? 

It should be this the reason of the great fascination that shipwrecks cause in adults, divers or not. 

The relationship between shipwrecks and treasures is deep but now, for the divers, it is most of the time in second plan. 

The shipwreck has a mystery breeze and this impels us to this kind of dive. All the ones that are diving in a shipwreck try to reconstitute, starting from the wreckage, the image of the ship while it navigated. That is integral part of our imagination and it is essential for a good underwater orientation. 

Many of the ones that seek this activity are not satisfied in just dive and they look for, already in earth, new information on the shipwreck, trying to talk with people of the place as well as researching in newspapers and books of the time. 

Others start to photograph and to film;  some are looking for the relationships and integrations of the shipwreck with the environment and many are specializing in the technical dive, to make dives in deeper wrecks or to accomplish penetrations. 

Brazil, with his great coast extension supplies us a great potential for such activity, even if his history is recent and the sea conditions are not as the one of the Caribbean seas. 

With maybe more than 3000 shipwrecks, I believe that we have a vast spring of ships to be discovered and "dived." 

Many of the wrecks that we knew for historical sources were not still located but, with the current expansion of the diving activity in our country and with the improvement and larger accessibility to equipments, many of them will still be found in short period, creating new diving points in where we can develop one of our passions even that there, well in the bottom of our minds, we still dream in finding the old treasure.