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HMCS MacKenzie
Artificial Reef Project





HMCS MacKenzie The HMCS MacKenzie is a 110-metre (366 foot) destroyer from the Canadian Navy and was sunk on September 16, 1995, by the Artificial Reef Society of British Columbia.


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Left: Looking forward from atop the radar tower. Notice the people beside the guns for scale.

Right: Looking forward from the mortar well at the rear of the ship.


HMCS MacKenzie
Right: This is a picture of the radar tower which is now covered in kelp and various other forms of marine life.

Below: A ling cod hanging around the deck.Ling Cod - HMCS MacKenzie


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Getting around the MacKenzie. There are a myriad of hatches and doorways on this ship.


HMCS MacKenzieNudibranch - HMCS MacKenzieLeft: My buddy Mike peering into one of the room with the guns overhead.
Right: A beautiful nundbranch inching its way across an exterior deck.


Wolf Eel - HMCS MacKenzie
A wolf eel cruising the ship. We followed this wolf eel as it made his way around the ship. We saw it serveral times during our dive. (Wolf eels are not actually eels, they are fish.)




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