300 Wrecks
In fact, the water bodies of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, as well as the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, are estimated to contain around 300 crashes. As per records, the San Agustin – a Spanish galleon that sank after colliding with the shore in the 16th century – seems to be the oldest. The Puerto Rican, on the other hand, was a tanker that blew up spectacularly off the coast of San Francisco in the 1980s.
300 Wrecks
S.S. City Of Chester
Although many of the wrecks are still to be explored by researchers, NOAA is working to change that. For instance, just a few months before the September 2014 survey, researchers made some other startling discoveries. They had discovered the wreck of the S.S. City of Chester, which had already been lost for well over a century, almost just underneath San Francisco’s popular bridge.
S.S. City Of Chester
