Bianca C

180-meter Italian Costa Line cruise liner that caught fire and exploded in her boiler room on October 22, 1961 while anchored off St. George's; a Royal Navy frigate tried to tow her clear but the line parted in a squall and she sank on October 24 about a mile off Grand Anse Beach. The largest diveable wreck in the Caribbean lies upright on sand with her bow at roughly 27 m and the stern at 50 m, the hull split aft of midships in 1992 by Hurricane Lenny. Divers descend a shotline straight onto the bridge and superstructure, swim past the swimming pool deck draped in black coral and gorgonians, and drift along the hull as eagle rays, horse eye jacks, barracuda, and occasional reef sharks pass overhead. The Times has named it one of the top ten wreck dives in the world.