4,720 shipwrecks · one app
Pull the water away and the seabed is a museum. Wreck Lens puts 4,720 of its exhibits in your pocket, from a Bronze Age trader lost around 2150 BC to the liners, warships and U-boats of the last century.
For iPhone and iPad · iOS 17 or later · works offline
On the seabed tonight
Inside the app
This is a reference you read, not a chart you navigate by. One wreck per screen, then the whole story underneath.
The feed
A full-screen feed you swipe like any other, except every card is a ship that never came home. The photograph, the name, the date, the sea she went down in, what sank her and how many were lost. Swipe up for the next.
The dossier
Swipe left for the full entry. The ship: builder, yard, tonnage, length, owner and master. The loss: date, cause and who or what did it. The people: aboard, lost, saved, missing. Then the sources behind it, with links.
The map
Every wreck with a published position, plotted on a world map and coloured by period. The convoy routes of the North Atlantic fill with pins. Tap one for the full entry, or press Map on a card to fly straight to where she went down.
The wreck today
When was she found, by whom, on what expedition, and what is down there now. Where a diver or a survey has photographed the wreck, the photograph is in the dossier, next to the depth and the position.
Filters
Fourteen causes of loss in four families: enemy action, the sea, accident and unknown. Combine them with ship type, depth, period, war, region, protected status and the decade a wreck was found. The count updates as you tap.
Statistics
Wrecks by period, causes of loss, lives lost per decade, the deadliest wreck, the deepest located wreck and the longest wait for a discovery. All computed on your phone from the same 4,720 records.
Seven layers
The archive runs from a Bronze Age trader off Dokos to losses still being recorded. Each period keeps its own colour across the feed, the map and the statistics.
4,720 wrecks in all
Protected sites
Wrecks that are war graves, protected wreck sites or memorials are marked as such in the feed and in the dossier, with a note asking you to respect the site and those who were lost. Positions are shown only as published by official sources.
This app will not help you take anything off the seabed.
No signal needed
Nothing to sign up for. Open the app and read.
No analytics, no ads, no third-party code. Data Not Collected.
All 4,720 records and every photograph ship inside the app. Only the map's background tiles come from Apple Maps.
Pricing
The entire archive
One-time purchase · no subscription
US price shown. The App Store sets the price in your country.
4,720 of them are waiting on the seabed.
Coming soon to the App StoreMade in the Netherlands by Mircules
