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Ninety seconds on HMS Vixen
Swimming out to the Vixen is not advised: the water off Daniel's Head carries boat wake, a channel current and summer traffic. Take a glass-bottom cruise from Dockyard instead, which passes right over the hull.
The glass-bottom cruise from Dockyard takes an hour and a half. It crosses the reef, stops above the wreck, then pauses at the sea grass beds where turtles shelter, and the crew explain what passes under the glass.
On the jet ski tour the Vixen is a stop, not a swim, and fish crowd up to the skis as they arrive.
The hull lies in about ten metres of water, some 460 metres out, in a narrow gap in the reef. From the shore at Daniel's Head you can spot the bow above the water, and that is the closest view from land.
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