

Cape Lookout

Cassimer Wreck is also known as Cassimir, WR-2.

Cassimer Wreck





Porta Allegra Wreck is also known as Lobster Wreck.

Porta Allegra Wreck

Normannia Wreck is a 0-star rated scuba dive and snorkel destination in USA, North Carolina, Cape Fear, North which is accessible from shore based on 0 ratings.

Normannia Wreck



3.5 nm from the Masonboro Inlet sea buoy

AR-370 - 2 90' barges is also known as Meares Harriss Reef AR-370 - 2 90' barges.

AR-370 - 2 90' barges

The USS Naeco was sunk by U-124 in 1942. Great dive full of sand tiger sharks, barracuda, and lionfish. Very great wreck. Hard to penetrate though.

The USS Naeco is only avalible by a 3 hour boat ride from Morehead City

USS Naeco

Great dive! The Papoose is lying almost upside down with only the tip of her port deck sticking up from the sand. Not only is the wreck massive and amazing, but barracuda, sand tiger sharks, and reef sharks are constantly in the area.

SS Papoose was a oil tanker built in 1921 by the Southwestern Shipbuilding in San Pedro, California as SS Silvanus. As Silvanus, the ship was under Dutch ownership in 1926 when it collided with the tanker Thomas H. Wheeler in the Mississippi River, resulting in the death of 26 seamen. The Silvanus was declared a total loss and rebuilt in Beaumont, Texas. It started operating as the Papoose for the Petroleum Navigation Company in Houston, Texas in March 1927. In March 1942, it was attacked by German U-boat U-124 off the coast of Cape Lookout, North Carolina. 

NOTE: The shipwreck described here is actually W. E. HUTTON. SIDCO research divers proved this by archival research in early 1998 using research materials provide to us by Paul Branch, Historian, Fort Macon State Park. The original war diaries from U-124 (Mohr)state that her bridge crew watched the tanker they had just torpedoed, which had identified herself as HUTTON on 600 meter band distress freq, sink in "30-40 meters". A second tanker that was originally called "hutton" lies in 72 feet of water. In 2013, SIDCO divers located the third mast on this wreck, proving it is not "hutton", but in fact, S. S. ARIO.

The only way to get to the Papoose is a 3 hour boat ride from Morehead City.

Papoose Wreck



15.5 nm from the New Topsail Inlet sea buoy

AR-368 - 10 Railroad boxcars

Scattered rubble
34° 09.583' / 077° 25.933' 
34° 09.583' / 077° 25.883' 
34° 09.567' / 077° 25.967'

Concrete pipe: 130 tons Topsail Beach Offshore Fishing Club
34° 09.667' / 077° 25.832' 
34° 09.694' / 077° 25.807' 
34° 09.690' / 077° 25.817' 
34° 09.684' / 077° 25.828'

15.5 nm from the New Topsail Inlet sea buoy

AR-368 - Buoy

241' barge "LC-16"
34° 09.583' / 077° 25.917' 
34° 09.583' / 077° 25.933' 
34° 09.583' / 077° 25.883'

15.5 nm from the New Topsail Inlet sea buoy

AR-368 - 241' barge "LC-16"

Railroad boxcars: 10
34° 12.898' / 077° 25.330' 
34° 12.911' / 077° 25.332' 
34° 12.883' / 077° 25.310' 
34° 12.832' / 077° 25.275'

Concrete pipe: 850 pieces, 48" by 8'
34° 12.983' / 077° 25.267' 
34° 12.950' / 077° 25.233'

Concrete pipe: 260 Tons 
34° 13.018' / 077° 25.160'

Concrete box culvert: 66 Pieces 
34° 12.873' / 077° 25.230' 
34° 12.879' / 077° 25.235' 
34° 12.885' / 077° 25.256'

Manhole sections: 61 Pieces 
34° 12.921' / 077° 25.255'

Manhole sections: 38 
Concrete box culverts: 39 
34° 12.888' / 077° 25.261' 
34° 12.833' / 077° 25.264'

30.0 nm from the Masonboro Inlet sea buoy

AR-366 - Buoy

Schurz Wreck is a 0-star rated scuba dive and snorkel destination in USA, North Carolina, Cape Lookout which is accessible from shore based on 0 ratings.

Cassimer Wreck

Snorkeling and Scuba Diving at Cassimer Wreck