---
title: "Rust and Reef: Exploring Underwater Car Ruins"
description: "Atlantis’s parking lot."
date: "2015-11-02"
modified: "2015-11-02"
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  - name: "The Drive Staff"
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url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/728/rust-and-reef-exploring-underwater-car-ruins"
categories:
  - "Culture"
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---

# Rust and Reef: Exploring Underwater Car Ruins

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![underwatercars\_ss\_1.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/underwatercars_ss_1.jpg>)
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![underwatercars\_ss\_2.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/underwatercars_ss_2.jpg>)
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![underwatercars\_ss\_3.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/underwatercars_ss_3.jpg>)
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![underwatercars\_ss\_4.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/underwatercars_ss_4.jpg>)

![underwatercars\_ss\_5.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/underwatercars_ss_5.jpg>)
*Moment Open/Getty Images*

![underwatercars\_ss\_6.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/underwatercars_ss_6.jpg>)
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![underwatercars\_ss\_7.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/underwatercars_ss_7.jpg>)
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![underwatercars\_ss\_8.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/underwatercars_ss_8.jpg>)
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![underwatercars\_ss\_9.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/underwatercars_ss_9.jpg>)
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![underwatercars\_ss\_10.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/underwatercars_ss_10.jpg>)
*Andrew Simpson/Getty Images*

![underwatercars\_ss\_11.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/underwatercars_ss_11.jpg>)
*Reinhard Dirscherl/Getty Images*

![underwatercars\_ss\_12.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/underwatercars_ss_12.jpg>)
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![underwatercars\_ss\_13.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/underwatercars_ss_13.jpg>)
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![underwatercars\_ss\_14.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/underwatercars_ss_14.jpg>)
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