Sunken steamers at Shipwreck Beach, a maritime graveyard on the Hawaiian island of Lāna`i, reveal the truth about ship groundings in Kaiolohia Bay.
In every major body of water in the world, there are sunken ships resting on the seafloor. Near the coast of North Carolina, for example, there is aThese wreckages, however, weren’t the intent of the captain or crew. Most ran into bad weather or enemy crosshairs. However, on the coast of a Hawaiian island, there is a ship graveyard where many of the groundings were intentional. Called Shipwreck Beach, this six-mile stretch of coastline is home to dozens of maritime skeletons.
“Anything that happened to accidentally come loose from the mooring or anchorage would be pushed on the north shore of Lāna`I,” Van Tilburg says. “The entire shoreline has not been surveyed. The water can be somewhat turbulent and cloudy. It’s not crystal clear visibility water,” he says. Problematically, the boats couldn’t simply land ashore so the cattle could load. “There weren’t harbors or safe landings in Hawaii,” Van Tilburg says. “They had to do it from the beach.”
Shipwreck Beach is open to hikers and explorers who wish to see the maritime graveyard for themselves. But Van Tilburg says what the wrecks mean to the area is a complex question.
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