This is a pic I shot on the wreck of the Moody off the coast of Long Beach, California. As I recall, it is a WWI four stack steam destroyer that was sunk in the 1940's for a movie called Hell Below. It remained "hidden" for years up until the 1980's when the southern California Wreck Divers researched it and began 'secretly' diving it. I was lucky because I had connections and got to dive it several times before it became a publically visited site. It lies in 140 feet of water and ain't for everyone. On the day I shot this, we had 100 plus feet of viz. This shot, however was taken in the horizontal plane (not upwards toward the surface) so the blue is a rich, dark hue. But the M. Senile's were all open and beautiful. The metridiums in this shot were actually on the outer edge of one of the giant propeller blades. There have also been several deaths on this wreck, including Darren Douglass and his son. You must be skilled to dive the wreck because of its depth and the fact that if you miss the anchor line you better be excellent at controlling your buoyancy to decompress. The visibility isn't always 100 feet, more like 30 feet. The wreck became public when GPS units started to become commodity items. Someone would be invited to dive the wreck, lock in the coordinates and spill the beans to someone else. The rest is history.
