Navio do Cabo

Navio do Cabo is a wreck of unknown identity that fishermen in the region used as a fishing spot and knew by that name. Its position came from a fisherman in Macaé and was checked with side scan sonar during a pipeline survey heading to Barra do Furado, which showed an elongated echo about 80 m long and 10 m wide on an extensive sandy bottom. In January 2002, an expedition that left Macaé on a fishing boat dived on the target and confirmed it was the remains of a ship. The expedition wanted to find out whether it was the auxiliary ship Vital de Oliveira, torpedoed in 1944, but the features of the wreckage did not match and nothing military was found. One possibility, still unconfirmed, is that it is the steamship Itatiba, of the Costeira line, which disappeared in 1919 near Cabo de São Tomé; the ship's real name remains unknown.

The hull has completely collapsed, with a large boiler near amidships, a triple-expansion engine with its shaft and propeller half-buried, fallen hull plates and the lifeboat davits lying near the stern. There are fishing nets caught on the wreckage. On the January 2002 dive, the water was 21 °C at the surface and 17 °C at the bottom.

On that expedition, the divers saw schools of amberjack and a large grouper living on the wreck. All exposed parts were covered by a layer of pale, almost white anemones.