All about boats
How many ships are in the wrecks?
What is 15?
How many fish species?
What is over 200 species?
What side of the island are the shipwrecks?
What kind of boats? (yachts, recreational boats, barges)
What is decommissioned vessels such as barges and dredges?
How many coral varieties?
What is 130 species?
What year were the first 5 boats placed?
What is 1963?
Which of the following is not a name of one of the boats?
a) seal
b) dugong
c) pelican
d) dolphin
What is dugong?
Which larger aquatic animals can be found?
What are dugongs, dolphins, Wobbegong sharks, stingrays and three types of sea turtles?
What is the range of depth of the wrecks?
What is 2-10 meters?
What rule was set in place by Queensland Government a few decades after the shipwrecks occurred?
What is public forbidden to swim within the boats?
What does "tangalooma" mean in Quandamooka language?
What is "where fish gather"?
What was the name of the first boat sunk?
a) Bundaberg the barge
b) Maryborough the suction dredge
c) Tasmania the flatboat
d) Minjerribah the barge
What is Maryborough the suction dredge?
What are the boats used for today?
What is an artificial reef, a breakwall and a calm place to drop anchor?
Which species were introduced to the area after the shipwrecks occurred?
What is wobbegong sharks?
How and why were the boats sunk?
a) a cargo ship crashed while carrying many boats, dropping them onto the sea floor
b) during WWII ships crashed on shore in a boating incident
c) the boats were sunk intentionally
What is intentionally sunk? The boats were sunk to create a reef for marine life and as a barrier for tidal waves. There was no reef or sand banks.