Yes I understand that storms that go through dive sites are just part of the natural process that exists.   But, I sometimes have mixed emotions when I see just how powerful some storms are and the damage they do.  

Recently I dove a site off Grand Bahama that I dove a couple of years ago called the Chamber.   The chamber is an old recompression chamber that was sunk after it failed inspection. I wrote about the dive a couple of years ago particularly  since it was close to shark junction which is one of my favorite sites because of all the grey reef sharks.  

The last time I saw the chamber it was sitting on the side of the site that was closest to shore.   This time it was on the opposite side of the site.  I am told that the chamber was found after the storm about a half mile away from where it had been originally.  The dive shop Unesco used lift bags to pick up the chamber and move it back on to the site it had been on before.  The chamber is probably close to 20 feet long and 6 to 8 feet across.  I couldn’t guess how much it weighs  but we would be talking about tonnage not pounds or kilograms.  

To me it is hard to imagine moving such an object, let alone moving it hundreds of meters underwater.  

The more interesting changes occurred with what is often referred to as the Papa Doc wreck.  Two years ago the hull of the wreck was still pretty much intact and even at the stern you could see places where fish hid inside crawl spaces in the hull. 

Now the sea life that was growing on the wreck looks like it had been sand blasted off the wreck and the stern of the ship is largely demolished.  

Not surprisingly, even the wheel house took a pretty good beating.   

The sand surrounding the wreck is probably two feet deeper than before the storm.   So I can only imaging what the swirl of sand must have looked like when the hurricane came through in December 2016.