At 3:30 the afternoon of June 7, 2005 - five years and a day after she was sunk - we dived down onto the wreck of Felipe Xicotencatl, sitting upright on the bottom - 184 feet long with a beam of 33 feet. Originally built in 1944, this minesweeper served with the US Navy for eighteen years as USS Scuffles. Purchased by Mexican navy in 1962, she was ...