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Uncommon Caribbean has a short article about the plane wreckage that sits on the south side of Great Dog:

http://www.uncommoncaribbean.com/2015/09/28/uncommon-attraction-great-dog-island-airplane-wreck-bvi/

We put that there , along with the Dive Operators, after it was used for a movie shoot on the north side of Tortola. Glad to hear it is still being enjoyed as a dive

A great dive and a great area. If you haven't seen garden eels in action, this area is the place to go.

There's a toilet in it and you can have your pic taken sitting on it <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" />

Umm - Tradewinds, have you ever actually dived that site?

I've dived wrecks that included a toilet, but I don't remember the sunken airplane being one of them... People get photographed on the pilot's seat, perhaps you're thinking of that.

I've done several dives on that plane (Coral Gardens) and have a lot of pictures from both inside and outside with nary a loo in sight.

Yes I have, and you're right. I'm thinking of a different one.

3 of my friends were on that flight, 2 of them have since been back to the current wreck site via a dive operator and had their pics taken in their original assigned seats.

Certainly not the way one wants to end a sail vacation, but very glad it did not end the enjoyment of BVI sailing.

How far and which direction from the mooring balls is the wreck??

The wreck is to the east of the mooring balls. How far is hard to say. Last time I was there it was a 10 minute swim east. Are the moorings still in the same place?

It is fairly deep for a snorkel - a better dive site. There are better wrecks to dive IMHO. Usually a big Moray in the instrument panel....

Our last dive there had very poor visibility.

From the moorings head generally east towards Spanish Town for perhaps 70-100m. Most of that trip is over rock and coral and once you hit sandy bottom you are quite close to the wreck.

the story that I was told by the locals and by a dive operation I did my dive master internship with, is that the plane that "crashed" was not the plane carrying passengers, yet was carrying the luggage behind another flight that was carrying the passengers. It essentially skidded off the end of the runway. The luggage recovered, no-one injured and then later moved to the site as a purpose sunk dive site. There are no seats in the interior of the plane.

I know that varies slightly from the story you tell and the story in the article, but are you sure they were on it and sat in their seats on a dive?

I'm almost positive that there was a "head" near that plane. It was in the sand a good distance from the wreck. This photo is from 2008.