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Wreck Dive: The Hilma Hooker
P erhaps it was just the name that made someone suspicious shore by the authorities. All of this immediately induced Bonaire
or perhaps an inside tip. Regardless, when she lost power dive operators to appeal to the government. They wanted the
just off the coast of Bonaire and was towed to the main pier on ship to be purposely sunk as a dive site. Hopes ran high as eve-
the island, it was not too long before a search was conducted. ryone wrote letters and called meetings to discuss a location for
Soon after that the cargo ship Hilma Hooker went into the history the sinking and what would be necessary to make the ship safe
books as a drug smuggler: 25,000 pounds of marijuana were for diving once it was sunk.
removed from between a real and a false bulkhead and placed on
