The Wreck of the RMS Rhone - Salt Island, BVI |
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The Wreck of the RMS Rhone
The most popular and well known of all the BVI dive sites, the Royal Mail Steamer “Rhone” was also the setting for the movie “The Deep” with Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bissett. Parts of the shipwreck are still intact. The wreck is located near Salt Island in the British Virgin Islands.
The RMS Rhone sank during an 1867 hurricane and is lying in depths from 20 to 80 feet. Today, the wreck of the Rhone is decorated with a wide variety of corals and is home to several resident barracuda, sea turtles, stingrays, angelfish, yellowtail snappers and other colorful, Caribbean sea life.
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