Mexican Navy ship on the rocks on the way to Ensenada - anyone remember it?

[Marcus von W.]

I think this was the former USS Belet, then in service with the Mexican Navy as the ARM California.

http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/04/04109.htm

http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/04/100410902.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Belet_(APD-109)

I wonder if there is anything visible remaining in the water on the rocks or washed ashore, and if anything remains in the water, whether or not it might make a half-@ss decent wreck dive.

[JohnnyMtn]

"Mexican warship" ???? I didn't know men could build such things.

[DEFCON ZERO]

It was the Titanic, it ran aground in Rosarito.

lol, I hear they left a ton of huge trash after they made that movie and the Mexicans were all pissed.

So my crazy buddy figures he'll just go down and salvage some stuff and put it on Ebay for all teenie-boppers to buy. "actually touched by Lenardo De Caprio" etc.

Some Mexicans figured he was the guy who owed them for the big mess and he barely got out of there in one piece.

[Low Light]

^I hear DiCaprio is starring in the Hollywood version.

[librarian72]

Hmmm... no don't remember that one. The only ship accident I remember is the Sansinena. Couldn't miss it if you were anywhere near it, and by near I mean like 10 miles.

EDIT: It was Liberian, not Mexican. http://www.lafire.com/famous_fires/1..._Sansinena.htm

[sealocan]

Okay you got me.

It was the very first real
"tragic boating accident"

before I figured what phrase really meant.

[Satex]

SS Monte Carlo?