sentences:  The island is also popular with scuba divers, who come to explore the many wrecked ships in the surrounding waters.Richard Branson crashed his hot air balloon into the sea off Rathlin Island in 1987 after his record-breaking cross-Atlantic flight from Maine.On 29 January 2008, the RNLI Portrush lifeboat "Katie Hannan" grounded after a swell hit its stern on breakwater rocks just outside the harbour on Rathlin while trying to refloat an islander's RIB.