Diving on the Thistlegorm. Thistlegorm- name means 'blue thistle' (thistle is the emblem of Scotland). The most popular Red Sea wreck.
The wreck lies evenly on the keel (with the exception of detached the stern). Built in 1940, the shipyard Sunderland (UK) was an English steam powered freighter operated by a crew of 39.
One of the most attractive shipwrecks in the world. Egyptian government reportedly earns him more than seeing the pyramids. Explorer and pioneer of scuba diving, Jacques Cousteau discover this wreck. The wreck lies on a sandy bottom, there are ocean currents, which in the morning rush in one direction and the other in the afternoon. Let's see here, a lot of big fish, turtles often. Herds barracuds, groupers, lionfish and many jackfishes.
Since 2008 has fixed of mooring buoys around the wreck. You see on the wreck jeeps, trucks, dozens of motorcycles, aircraft engines, two locomotives, lightweight tracked vehicles, tanks railway locomotive, ammunition. The first dive is usually a circumnavigation of the wreck, a second dive into the hold and compartments.
Be careful of your group on the wreck-divers, there are many groups and easily confused. Sometimes obstacles are strong currents. At the place we are in the morning. Red Sea rather quiet. Precise control equipment, briefing and distribution of the diving group. When you see a huge lump of submerged ship- is really great. Here an important remark- carefully control amount of air, because time passes quickly. Bottle of 15 liters and equal, quiet breath- you can dive almost the entire wreck. Depth of 15 to 30 meters, light does not interfere with the water current. After surfacing time to rest and filling cylinders. In the afternoon we dive into the hold. Still full of military equipment. It looks as if time has stood still ...
Amazing afternoon sunlight penetrates into the hold. At this depth is blue- deep blue. And this silence. Locomotive engine, gun, truck. See it at night-it must be a Dive.