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September 2, 2006
Shipwrecks Around the Google Earth
The community of millions of Google Earth users are examining the Earth and finding many interesting things. Some people are making hobbies out of finding particular places or objects in the satellite or aerial photos in GE and putting them into collections. Today I was perusing a collection of visible shipwrecks 
(by visible they mean shipwrecks which are visible in GE). There is a thread of posts at the Google Earth Community which discusses and maintains the collection of visible shipwrecks which is maintained by someone called 'sasroodkapje' from Holland.
This collection not only shows the locations of shipwrecks as placemarks, but some of the placemark descriptions contain closeup photos of the shipwrecks seen from the shore, boats, or from planes. In some cases, links to more information are provided as well.
Check out some other interesting collections:
Posted by FrankTaylor at September 2, 2006 8:36 AM
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Posted by: Ian Coleman at March 22, 2008 6:25 PM
Ian
I would like to see the photos - do you also have the detail of the wrecks?
Regards
Fanus
Posted by: Fanus Engelbrecht at July 5, 2008 9:39 AM
Arundo's shipwreck is wrongly located inland, on the state of Bahia, Brazil,
latitude 10°25'47.07"S, longitude 40°57'28.81"W.
I was not sure how to communicate this, so, please relay this message to the people who could correct the location.
Thank you,
A. Durval
Posted by: A. Durval at June 6, 2009 11:22 AM
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On retirement from the Port of Maputo Mozambique, i was the Port Manager of the Port and in the years 2000-2006 have taken many photo images of 22 x wrecks visable in the inner anchorage of the Port. I have only just found this site recently but will gladly share the photos for those interested.
Regards
Ian Coleman