Superior Producer

Awesome shipwreck to explore! You can penetrate the wreck and enter the cargo hold and wheelhouse. The ship was sunk many years ago and has become a vibrant artificial reef with lots of life.

Visited Jan. 2024

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Great wreck dive accessible from shore. Wreck is still in good shape and there is a good amount of coral growth on it. You are able to penetrate the wreck and explore the cargo holds. The wheelhouse is at around 80ft. One of the best dives on Curacao.... Show More

Visited Jan. 2024

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Measuring 50.22m (165ft) in length and 7.79m (25½ft) in width with a total maximum draught of 2.58m (8½ft), this 400-ton freighter sits quietly upright on her keel with her bow facing west in roughly 30m (100ft) of water and about 150m (500ft) from the shoreline just west of the Curaçao Mega-pier. As an advanced shore or boat dive, the easiest approach is from the stern due to the possibility of the prevailing currents.

As you descend the fringing reef, an eerie dark shadow starts to appear. At first, you only see the stern, but then the entirety of this magnificent 50m (165ft) mass with it superstructure rising to within 21m (72ft) of the surface reveals itself, covered in a vast kaleidoscope of color. Now with roughly 30 years of growth, the MV Superior Producer is an amazing artificial reef site home to numerous colonies and different species of corals, sponges, gorgonians and sea whips. Because of this, it is a natural attraction for schools of predatory fish such as Tarpons, Barracudas, Snappers and Jacks.

This is also a heaven for macro photographers and anyone who likes to get a close look at smaller stuff too. Caribbean spiny lobsters, parrotfish, French and Queen angelfish, turtles, scorpionfish and even morays. Look even closer for banded coral shrimp, nudibranchs, flamingo-tongue shells and possibly even frogfish. Basket stars, octopus and large spider crabs catch the eye while night diving this beautiful shipwreck too.

With its wide-open cargo holds and accessible wheel house, the MV Superior Producer has become renowned as one of the Top Shipwrecks in the World rivaled only by the likes of the SS Thistlegorm in the Red Sea and the WWII wrecks in Palau but sadly a new chapter is scheduled to start. A new Mega-pier, larger than the existing one will be constructed virtually on top of this glorious shipwreck sometime soon.

Check out the full article: MV Superior Producer - Dive into History on Curaçao
https://www.divecuracao.info/single-post/2016/11/30/Superior-Producer-Curacao

Photo's courtesy of Turtle & Ray Productions HD... Show More

Visited Apr. 2017

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