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Shipwreck Diving

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If you travel for a great wreck diving adventure, there are plenty dive sites offering real great dive trips.

The red sea around Hurghada - Sharm el Sheikh is a prime dive site to explore some sunken shipwreck. You can do this via a red sea diving holiday based on a dive resort or liveaboard, the best is via a diving package.

Check for a excellent yachts if you opt for a liveaboard trips, this is very important it wont matter where you dive trip will lead you. Scuba diving holidays become more and more popular and what could be better as to do some scuba adventure via a wreck diving trip.

Of course you can opt for other dive vacation such as Galapagos diving, diving Coron Palawan, dive Sipadan, the Caribbean or maybe the Similan Islands in Thailand and the Myeik or Mergui archipelago in Myanmar.

Actually in the Myanmar Andaman Sea are still plenty of wrecks of English, Portuguese and Chinese vessels sunk by pirates, The Myanmar islands in the Mergui archipelago were a busy trading route during colonial times, many ships from British India to Georgetown Penang went this route and there were lot of pirates waiting. 

There are countless of wreck dive sites around the world with plenty to see underwater and to explore.

Very interesting wreck diving could be a lake dive, there are plenty of shipwreck around in lakes all over the world, if the area is suitable combine it with some cave diving.

On your wreck diving trip you may find some sunken treasures, a very interesting area for a wreck dive trip is off the west and east coast of the Malay Peninsular, today Malaysia. In that area several sunken treasure ships have been discovered in the last two decades.

Check here about what sunken treasures were recovered from old ship wrecks there. Actually the whole strait of Malacca, around Indonesia, the Philippines and Florida are El Dorado for wreck diving

Before the wreck diving trip get as much as possible information about the wreck dive site as possible, especially related to safety. The best beside collecting information in the internet go to a local dive shop and ask if they have dive packages for the particular wreck dive site.

The best for sure is either take a dive package from a local dive tour operator or book a dive liveaboard tour, this way you have a experienced dive instructor, diving equipments and dive accessories on your side and you can concentrate on your wreck dive only.

A wreck dive is never without some danger and your live should be worth this few extra dollars to be on the safe side. If you don’t want to go on a wreck diving trip in a group of scuba divers just hire a experienced dive instructor at a local dive shop and he or she will tell and show you what’s on.

Since the local dive master already know the wreck dive site you also wont waste time on your dive holiday with a lot of checking and maybe just missing this particular great dive location for a great dive picture or video. You are just there and will enjoy the under water attractions without problems. You also wont need any special scuba training or classes on your scuba dive holiday.

Wreck dive sites are mostly further out in the ocean boat dives or liveaboard diving trip are needed. The local dive instructor also make sure the wreck dive trip wont end up in a unpleasant shark scuba and maybe some coral diving will be included in the trip.

At most wreck dive sites some hazards are waiting. This can be anything from strong currents, poisonous fish and other marine life such as sharks, the local dive instructor has the knowledge to avoid this problems.

To complement all this you could do an advanced diver training course or class to get a better understanding how to diving deeper, some navigation skills and buoyancy control.

Since you probably are an open water diver some specialty classes wont hurt. Providing you with a better understanding of wreck diving, underwater photography and video plus maybe night diving and cave diving.

Watch out, maybe you find a hidden ship wreck like this wreck of sunken Netherland and Chinese ships in the Strait of Malacca and off the east coast of Malaysia in the South China Sea. Also in Indonesian and Philippine waters are plenty of sunken ship wrecks.

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Wreck dive site
Wreck dive site in Malaysia
Sunken Treasure

Sunken Treasure at a wreck site in Malaysia
Treasure Ship
Treasure Ship remains from a Malaysian wreck dive site.

In 1916, the British submarine HMS E18 disappeared, now the wreck was discovered at the bottom of the Baltic Sea.

Dispatched by Winston Churchill, the then First Lord of the British Admiralty, with the purpose to make problems to the iron supply from Sweden to Germany in the first WW and supply some marine support to Russia.

The "E18" (photo) had been sunk by a mine at 2. June 1916. The Swedish Marine Exploration Company MMT found the 55-meter-long submarine near the Estonian island of Hiiumaa in good conditions.


 


British Submarines - E18

Ten years scuba diving search for the Soviet submarine S-2 " sunk in World War II finally came to an end.

Swedish and Finnish scuba divers discovered the WW 2 submarine wreck in the Baltic Sea after 70 years laying on the seabed. in the vicinity of the Åland Islands between Sweden and Finland.

Sunken Submarine
Sunken Submarine
Sunken Russian Submarine
Sunken Russian Submarine

A freight sailing ship wa found in Lake Constance or Bodensee, Germany.

A sunken ship wreck over 600 years old has been discovered by archaeologists in Lake Constance, Germany, near the island of Reichenau. Probably a fishing boat from the 14 Century. Only the nine-meter-long vessel skeleton is was has been recovered of the medieval ship.

The ship wreck shows a slim, box-shaped hull with a flat bottom, far towering bow and wide stern was indicative of the medieval 
shipbuilding. All remaining constructive links between the wood components were made of wood and without the use of any iron
parts.

Freight sailing ship wreck
Freight sailing ship wreck
freight sailing ship wreck artifact
Freight sailing ship wreck artifact

Wreck diving at Sharm el Sheikh

The  Sharm el Sheikh area is home to some of the most magnificent diving spots in the world plus great beaches. Not only

that, but its streets are also bursting with vibrancy and charm, and boast a lively nightlife, colorful markets and a number of sites of interest.

Located at the southern tip of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula between the Red Sea and Mount Sinai, Sharm el Sheikh is soaked in year-round sunshine. There are plenty of beaches and dive resorts. A abundance of underwater life, as well as the Red Sea's calm, clear waters make it a prime scuba diving area The National Park of Sinai, Ras Mohammed, is one of the best location for a underwater adventure, wreck diving in some WW II shipwrecks is a real great adventure as it is here in the Thistlegorm a WW II freighter of the UK navy sunk by a German fighter plane off Sharm el Sheikh.

Close to Sharm el Sheikh is Hurghada another prime scuba diving spot in Egypt, there are ferry and flight connections.

Dive liveaboard
Dive liveaboard at Sharm el Sheikh, the Seawolf Soul.
Thistlegorm Wreck Diving
Thistlegorm Wreck Diving
Wreck Diving Sharm el Sheikh
Wreck Diving Sharm el Sheikh

Clean, white sand beaches and world class scuba diving sites, Sharm El Sheikh in the Red Sea is a top spot for the water sports enthusiast.

Since Jacques Cousteau showed the beauty of the Red Sea, the scuba dive community around Sharm El Sheikh grow rapidly.

Today plenty of dive boats bring scuba diving enthusiasts to the famous dive sites, this is mainly the Thistlegorm Wreck and Ras Mohammed National Park.

South of Egypt in Saudi Arabia are more than thousand km of similar dive sites, totally pristine, the Saudis don't go scuba diving.

I had some great dives south of Jeddah a few

Wreck diving adventure
Wreck diving adventure
 Ship Wreck
Ship Wreck with grenades of the Thistlegorm

years ago, we brought the tanks, dive equipment and other gear as excess baggage with us since there is almost no diving support
in this Red Sea area.

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