On August 22nd, the Palm Beach County Department of Environmental Resource Management (E.R.M.) sent the 150' coastal freighter "United Caribbean" to the sea floor near the Noula Express and the Sea Emperor. She sits upright in 73' with her superstructure topping out above 45'. It's an ideal wreck for the novice. The "United Caribbean" was also scuttled as opposed to blowing her up. As she was filled with water from the attending tugboat and a Coast Guard cutter, the ship listed hard to starboard. Apparently, as her stern hit first, it caused her to come back to portside for the final ride down. in 1993 the ship, then known as the "Golden Venture" ran aground on a sandbar 200 yards off the New York coastline.

Ten of the 228 Chinese nationals aboard, who paid an estimated $30,000 each to be smuggled into the country, drowned when they jumped ship and tried to swim ashore. The saga received national attention at the time and resulted in a massive smuggling ring being brought to justice. The vessel changed hands and names, becoming the "United Caribbean" and eventually winding up as a rusting hulk on the Miami River after failing to make a profitable venture running goods between Florida and Haiti. "Impounded" by her crew for unpaid back wages and abandoned by her owner who would not pay those wages, her salvation came at the hands of the Palm Beach County E.R.M.