Now you can take home a piece of this island's remarkable shipwreck history. Come to Bermuda, dive our best wrecks and you'll earn our Bermuda Shipwreck Certificates mementos of your diving experiences.

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The Blanche King was the classic American schooner, a design in wide use at the turn of the century.The Iristo was a most unlucky ship, wrecked because of another shipwreck. Bermuda's most impressive warship wreck is the L'Herminie, a 60 gun French frigate that sank in 1838. The Lartington was an early vintage freighter that crashed into Bermuda reefs on December 14, 1879. The One of Bermuda's most historic shipwrecks is the Mary Celestia – a side paddlewheel steamer chartered by the Confederacy during America's Civil War. The Blanche King was the classic American schooner, a design in wide use at the turn of the century.The Caraquet was a combination British mail packet and passenger steamer of 350 feet.The Constellation was a four-masted, wooden hulled schooner originally built in 1918 and measuring 192 feet in length. The Cristobal Colon is Bermuda's largest shipwreck, measuring 499 feet in length and three decks high.The Darlington was a sturdy iron hulled steamer built in 1881, at the beginning of the age of steam driven ships. The Minnie Breslauer is one of the unluckiest ships to sink in Bermuda waters. She was an English steamer built in 1872.The Montana was an elusive ship of multiple identities, often operating under the name of Nola, Gloria, Paramount and Montana. The Pelinaion was a large cargo steamer, 385 feet long with a 50 foot beam and a displacement of 4,291 tons.Built in 1890 in Hamburg, Germany, the Pollockshields was a 323 foot cargo steamer.The 5,107-ton steamship Rita Zovetta is sunk in 20 to 70 feet of water off St. David's Island at the northeastern end of Bermuda. The Taunton was a turn of century Danish cargo steamer that fell victim to Bermuda's tricky reefs and sank on November 24, 1920. A 200-foot English Brigantine Rig with an iron propeller, this iron steamer was en route from Galveston, Texas to Le Havre, France when she struck a reef 22 miles northwest of Gibbs Hill Lighthouse on December 1, 1878.The Madiana was a 345-foot long passenger ship operating under the Canadian flag. This 221 foot freighter became the target of a US Immigration sting operation to capture those trying to smuggle illegal immigrants into the United States.The Hermes is Bermuda's most popular wreck dive because this USCG buoy tender is still fully intact.

The Bermuda dive operators, in cooperation with the Bermuda Department of Tourism, are offering absolutely free a set of 20 beautifully designed certificates printed on parchment paper, suitable for framing. Each certificate documents your dive and provides a brief history of the wreck. Start with one and collect them all!

Download the 2006 Bermuda Dive Guide