The Most Beautiful Shipwrecks From Around The World

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After 50 years of service as an ocean liner, the SS America was sold to transformed into a five-star hotel ship off of Phuket, Thailand. It was being towed from Greece by a Ukranian tugboat and hit a thunderstorm. The tow lines broke and couldn’t be reattached. The crew was rescued but the ship was left adrift, eventually running aground off the west coast of Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands. Two days later it broke in two and the stern sank into the water. In 2005 the port side collapsed and sank, and two years later, the entire ship was beneath the sea. Today it’s only visible at low tide.