"Let Her Rip": The 1853 Gold Rush Shipwreck of Anacapa Island

The Channel Islands lie in one of the most hazardous shipping channels in the world. While telling the story of the crash of the paddle wheel steamer Winfield Scott into middle Anacapa Island in 1853, Bob Schwemmer of NOAA and others also describe some of the more than 500 other wrecks in Marine Sanctuary Waters. Many of which can be dived on today in this “underwater museum.”  West of the West series available on DvD. https://thecifilm.com