The above picture is the wreck that I returned to Dahab to explore. After two days of waiting for the weather to calm down on the Red Sea, we met at 11pm and took a mini bus to Sharm (a nearby dive town that is much more touristy than Dahab). We boarded the boat, had a briefing, and I made my way to the top deck to get some sleep. At about 4 in the morning the boat left the marnina. I woke to the boat rocking back and forth and hearing someone downstairs securing the tanks which sounded like they were all going to fall off the boat one way or another every time we went over a wave. At 7am we all woke up and went downstairs for breakfast. After some trouble getting the boat tied to the moorings, we just hopped in a little motor boat and went over to another dive boat who had a rope tied with which would could use to descend onto the wreck.
I look like I just woke up in the above picture because I did. So, we boated over to our drop in spot, put our regulators in our mouths and rolled off the side of the boat. On the first dive we circled around the boat, checking out the big gun on the front of the boat the propellers and where the bomb hit the boat. On the second dive we entered and explored the boat. Some of the cool things we saw were the motorcycles, cars, and bathrooms that were all still in tact. I had a camera but in so many words, well, it sucked, so I stole some pictures from google images.
Diving this wreck was probably one of the coolest things I have ever done….and I have done some pretty cool shit. After our second dive we took a few hour surface interval as we made our way to a third dive which was a drift dive at Ras Mohammed reef.
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