Friday, November 16, 2007

Wreck Dive


Wreck diving is one of the most adventurous dive anyone could do. My first wreck dive was in August of summer 2007 after I finished my third course, my instructor Linda M convinced me before going back to Cairo to go on a wreck dive as my final dive to Dunraven in the Red Sea. The Dunraven was used to transport spices and timber, went down in March 1876 during a trip from Bombay to Newcastle.

This wreck was discovered in 1979, and then it became one of the best diving sites in the Red Sea. In this dive we were 14 divers on the boat to Dunraven, we were divided into 3 groups with each instructor, we prepared our gears on, the boat dropped us off away from the wreck, swimming up a sandy hill, and then the Dunraven appeared I took a deep breath as I saw the Dunraven my very first wreck to see, we swam around the wreck saw all the coral reefs stuck to it, a lot of beautiful fish.

A part of the wreck’s propeller was broken so we dived through it pretty amazing, we swam inside the it was very scary as it was a bit dark inside but we managed to lit up a torch, then I spotted 2 huge moray eels inside a broken part of the wreck. It was about 55 minute dives, really a very magnificent experience.

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