Baja Californian flora and fauna are also a great reason as to why American tourists come here, especially those that love the sea and underwater diving. This activity can be done in the state’s coasts to appreciate the amount of marine life variety that has sprung up due to projects like Francisco Ussel’s.

Ussel is President of Divers in Baja California, where he realized there was a lack of sea life in the coasts of Playas de Tijuana and its surroundings, a desert in comparison with Coronado Island (located in front of this area). Francisco ended up meeting the person in charge of sinking the Yukon ship in San Diego, which was used as an artificial marine habitat; this person was the same one who suggested to Ussel to do the same thing in the Baja Californian coast.

Thanks to cooperation by institutions like the Higher Learning Scientific and Education Research Center (CICESE), the creation of an artificial coral reef began to take shape so that sea life could live adequately in this area after the sinking of ship Uribe 121 in 2015. This vessel has bolstered the increase of several different species since its sinking.

Since 2015, Uribe 121 has become both a tourist attraction as well as home for more than 80 sea flora and fauna species. Every month a metallic plate is recollected from the sunken ship’s surface in order to discover, through a microscope, what new species have settled in the vessel.

This vessel has had an endless number of visits by people from Germany, Canada, the Middle East, and much more, making it a tourist attraction destination for expert scuba divers that wish to find out all about the mysterious, but beautiful depths of this artificial reef. Ussel said that his new project is currently the creation of the Artificial Reef Museum that will be located in Puerto Nuevo.

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