wreck-intelligence/shipwreck-records-sample

Wreck Intelligence: sample of shipwreck records (UK and Ireland), v1.0

Canonical, citable version: Zenodo, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23187882. This Hugging Face copy is a mirror; please cite the Zenodo DOI.

Wreck Intelligence is a global interactive shipwreck map with detailed, sourced information on every wreck: history, position, and depth.

Map: https://wreckintelligence.com Contact: [email protected]

For interest and initial research only. Not a dive plan or dive guidance.

About Wreck Intelligence

Wreck Intelligence is a free, global interactive shipwreck map. Every wreck on the map opens a detailed record compiled from published sources: vessel identity, loss history, position, depth, and reported conditions, with each claim cited. Coverage starts with the United Kingdom and Ireland and is expanding worldwide. It is built for interest and initial research, not dive planning; anyone considering a dive should rely on local professionals and current conditions.

What this dataset is

A small, openly licensed sample of 50 wreck records from the Wreck Intelligence map, covering all 26 regions currently on the map (33 United Kingdom, 17 Ireland). Each row links to the full public record on wreckintelligence.com. That record has the history, the position (where shown), depth, conditions, and the per-field source citations.

This is a metadata-only sample. It contains no coordinates. The reasons are in "Why no coordinates" below.

Files

File	Description
wreck-intelligence-sample.csv	50 records, UTF-8, comma-separated, header row
README.md	This description

Fields

Column	Type	Description
name	string	Wreck name as shown on the map
vessel_type	string	Vessel type as shown on the record (blank if not recorded)
loss_year	integer	Year the vessel was lost
depth_max_m	number	Maximum recorded depth of the wreck, metres (blank if not recorded)
region	string	Map region (e.g. Orkney, Cork)
country	string	United Kingdom or Ireland
record_url	URL	Full public record on wreckintelligence.com, with sourced history and per-field citations
cited_source_domains	string	Semicolon-separated domains of the sources cited on the record page. Filled only where the record page was captured for this release (2 of 50). For the rest, see record_url.

Completeness in v1.0: name 50/50, loss_year 50/50, region 50/50, country 50/50, record_url 50/50, vessel_type 48/50, depth_max_m 48/50, cited_source_domains 2/50.

How it was made

• Values are copied verbatim from what wreckintelligence.com shows publicly, as captured on 6 Oct 2026. Nothing was estimated or filled in. A blank means the map shows no value.
• Selection: round-robin across all 26 map regions (largest regions first, records in map order) until 50 records were reached, plus two well-documented records (RMS Lusitania, SS Kyarra).
• Left out on purpose: coordinates (see below), the site's own narrative summaries, and dive difficulty or certification fields. This sample is for interest and research, not dive planning.
• Wreck records are compiled from published sources, and sources sometimes disagree. Where they do, the record page shows both values. Treat this sample as a starting point and check the record page and its cited sources.

Why no coordinates

Positions on the map come from a mix of sources under different terms. Some are open (e.g. UK Hydrographic Office wrecks data under the Open Government Licence v3.0, the Wreck Inventory of Ireland under CC BY 4.0). Others are not licensed for redistribution (e.g. some heritage-portal records and commercial wreck sites). Some wrecks are also protected sites or war graves. Coordinates are therefore left out of this static, permanent file. Where the map shows a position, it is on the record_url page, under the map's coordinate-visibility rules.

Licence and attribution

The dataset is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Please attribute as:

Source: Wreck Intelligence (https://wreckintelligence.com), CC BY 4.0

The facts in each record come from published sources cited on each record page. Where a value comes from open public-sector data, that source's own attribution applies too. For example: "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0" (UK), or "© Government of Ireland, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0" (Ireland).

Disclaimer

For interest and initial research only. Not a dive plan or dive guidance.

Depths, positions and conditions change, and legal protection of wreck sites changes. Anyone considering a dive should rely on local professionals and current conditions. Respect war graves and protected wreck designations.

Citation

Wreck Intelligence (2026). Wreck Intelligence: sample of shipwreck records (UK and Ireland) (Version 1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23187882