Shipwreck Dive Sites

This isn't a trail — it's a underwater graveyard spanning four centuries of maritime misfortune. You'll drop off a dive boat into the warm, impossibly clear waters of Biscayne's Maritime Heritage Trail, where six documented wrecks sit scattered across the park's shallow reef line. Depending on which site your operator runs, you might explore the Mandalay, a luxury schooner that ran aground in 1966, or the Lugano, a British freighter whose hull plates now serve as condominiums for parrotfish and lobster. Visibility regularly hits 40-plus feet, and the wrecks sit in relatively shallow water — most between 10 and 25 feet deep — making them accessible to newly certified divers without deep-dive credentials. Coral has colonized every surface, blurring the line between shipwreck and reef. This one is for certified divers who want history with their bottom time.