Blue Hole


Finally, the ship approached the wider stretches of the Straits of Gubal and the Sinai started to fall away to the east and the Egyptian mainland even further away to the west. Satisfied that the more dangerous stretches had been safely negotiated, the Captain finally handed over management of his ship to considered one of his officers and went beneath. The ship did not change her name throughout her career – though the “M” was added some years later by her last house owners – the Ianissos Shipping Company of Panama.
The primary physique is usually upright with her cargo of Italian floor tiles nonetheless in place. Not far from the Chrisoula K is another wreck which is of comparable size, tonnage and age.
We arrived on the wreck above the port aspect and dropped into the outlet reduce by the salvage group. The view from here – forward through what stays of No 2 Hold, was breathtaking.

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The gap in the port facet is at 17m from where every little thing gets gradually deeper until one reaches the strict the place the seabed is at 32m. Exiting the wreck from the hole, we then adopted the port side all the best way down in direction of the stern the place we found a large single propeller and rudder. From right here we made our means across the very distinctive and pointed stern to the rear decks.
  • The wreck of the Giannes D is probably essentially the most well-known and photogenic amongst the wrecks of Abu Nuhas.

It was not lengthy, nonetheless, earlier than he was very rudely awoken. On December twelfth 1978, with engines at Full Speed the Kimon M drove exhausting onto the north east corner of Shab Abu Nuhas Reef. A passing cargo ship – the “Interasja,” immediately responded to the misery name and picked up all the crew and delivered them safely to Suez two days later.
Turning to look the other means, we found the remains of the engine room. The elimination of the primary engine has created quick access to all parts and there may be nonetheless a great deal for the Diver to see and explore. There are strain valves, gate valves, vents, dials and gauges of all sizes on each facet. dive sites hurghada map There are pipes and railings stretching in each course, metal ladders – now canted over on the mistaken angle, and metal walk-ways now on their facet. Altogether, they add to the expertise as the Diver tries to visualise what it was like when the Chief Engineer and his employees went about their work.
Swimming via that giant “tear,” the Diver is ready to enter one of the holds immediately above the cargo of enormous flooring tiles – with every package deal of twenty or so tiles still rigorously sure together. With wave action having now lowered the Bows even further, it's the the rest of this fabulous wreck that attracts most curiosity.

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It was like trying by way of a big rectangular box with these Divers who were right on the break, neatly framed within the sunlight against the Reef. between us, contained in the maintain have been a small number of Batfish. The one last indignity to befall this ship was the salvage of enormous components of the primary engines. With a Salvage Tug firmly secured above the upper, port facet, of the Kimon M a large gap was cut into the vessel and the primary bulk of the engine removed.