![]() Pass some ballast stones, the large boiler room and several breaks in the hull until you reach the bow at 15m. The cavernous hull of the Dunraven is adorned with soft corals and black corals and is full of schooling goatfish and glassfish, squirrelfish and a few groupers and moray eels. It's possible to dive the entire length of the ship's interior so enter at the deepest section - the stern. The wreck was only rediscovered in 1979 and now lies in 2 pieces, with its stern and large brass propeller to the north and the reef of the Sinai Peninsula to the west. The crew were eventually rescued by local fishermen. The crew worked frantically for 14 hours to dislodge her but she capsized and sank to the seabed at 30m with her cargo of cotton and wool. In March 1876, on her voyage up the Suez from India to the UK, she ran on to the reef and stuck fast off Shaab Mahmoud, south of Sharm El Sheikh. The 80m long Dunraven steamship was built in Newcastle, England in 1873. With nightlife, choice restaurants, shopping opportunities and desert safaris, scuba diving in Sharm El Sheikh is convenient, varied and great value for money.ĭive Site Descriptions for Sinai Peninsula Dunraven Wreck This resort town is Egypt's premiere dive destination and offers its tourists everything they could wish for. It should not be forgotten too that Sharm El Sheikh isn't so far from the dive sites of northern Hurghada so wrecks such as the Rosalie Moller and the Abu Nuhas family of wrecks are often visited by Sinai liveaboards departing from Sharm. No trip to the Red Sea would be complete without a dive or two here. And over on the west coast of the Sinai Peninsula but still easily accessed on diving day trips from Sharm El Sheikh, is the Dunraven and the world famous SS Thistlegorm World War II shipwreck. To the south lies Egypt's first marine protected area and national park, Ras Mohammed, with its colourful soft coral walls and buzzing marine life. To the east at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba lies Tiran Island and the Straits of Tiran, famed for their superb reefs and large fish and shark action. However, you don't need to travel far before you reach the exciting stuff. The local sites are often used for student training and for introduction dives. Located quite close to the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, Sharm El Sheikh is the most popular dive destination in the Red Sea and is the departure port for many liveaboard safaris around the peninsula and the northern Red Sea, as well as for diving day trips from the local holiday resorts. This area has had a rather bloody past but that doesn't stop scuba divers flocking to see this underwater wonderland now. ![]() The historic peninsula of Sinai lies at the extreme northern end of the Red Sea, cut off on its west coast from the Egyptian mainland by the Gulf of Suez, and from the Arabian peninsula on its east coast by the Gulf of Aqaba. Sharm El Sheikh's diving environment: wreck diving, wall diving, drift diving, beginner and advanced divers, very popular. Highlights: turtles, schooling fish & big pelagics, non diving activities.
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