Hog Heaven

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Avg Depth: 50 ft. / 15m

Max Depth: 65 ft. / 20m

Skill Level: Intermediate

Features:

• Artificial Reef

• Wreck Site

Hog Heaven is a 180-foot barge that lies upside down in 64 feet of water. While traveling to be sunk as an artificial reef, this ship flipped upside down. The barge was owned by Western Contractors Company of Iowa and was sunk in 1986. In 1988, a dredge pipe and concrete bridge beams were added to the site to help foster the formation of an artificial reef. In the same area is the 70-foot barge, Wayne, about 200 feet northeast. (N26 08.102 W080 04.833) The remains of the Pacific Reef Lighthouse are also nearby. This debris was sunk in 1989 to form an artificial reef.