La Famille Express Shipwreck

The history of the La Famille Express began in 1953 in the Soviet Union. The vessel started life as an oil rig service ship, transferring supplies to remote offshore oil wells. Decades later in 1992, the Fort Shevchenko was decommissioned. At this point in its life, the La Famille Express was in poor condition and being used to transport bulk rock, not something that a valued freighter ship would be used for. The La Famille Express became firmly planted in the shallow waters of the Caicos Banks during Hurricane Frances in 2004. 15 Years later we would board as passengers only to throw ourselves off our own plank into the waters below.

Atmosphere: The water is so amazing, really cool thing to see!

Crowd: No crowd usually

Recommendations: Water can sometimes be choppy. The ship is kinda rusty though so use extreme caution. Its 2 miles out, you have to take a jet ski or boat there. Water is only about 8 feet deep so use caution when jumping

Staff: Id recommend getting a guide

Location: off the coast 2 miles

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Worth visiting if you are risk adverse. Recommend wearing water shoes because there is too many exposed rusty nails and debris to cut your feet. Also, ensure you have decent upper body strength. The ladder from the water is old, broken and extremely rusty. You will need to pull yourself up the first three steps of the ladder from either a Jet Ski or boat. Also, if you jump from the top of the ship, be extremely careful with your form. The distance is significant enough to damage your lungs, face, hips and stomach depending on how you hit the water. If you’re not a professional jumper highly recommend jumping lower back or side of ship. You’ve been warned, also if you get hurt there is no one you can sue or claim liability. Travel at your own risk. Lastly, I think it’s haunted 👻, my Go Pro caught some weird sounds and glowing orbs when I visited the lower...

My experience on the La Familla sunken ship was amazing!!! We took a 4 hour private boat to it and boy it was really fun for me well that’s because I’m the only one that went on it. Also make sure that you have water shoes lots of glass and debris. I had jumped off the wrecked ship make sure you take off or leave behind any valuables that you don’t want to lose before jumping. I had lost my turtle bracelet that I got from the fish fry that wasn’t even a day that I had it. I would love to come back to this historic location in the future hopefully with...