The property of the losers is stranded at sea
Poseidon cooperates with the Sharm el-Sheikh club "Dive Africa", the co-owner of which is Pavel Yudin from Russia, but has been living in Egypt for several years. "When we arrive, they always bring raisins to the trip," says Semyonov.
Near Sharm El Sheikh is Kohraba - in Arabic it means 'power plant'. It is possible that there was once a power plant here on the shore. After the Israeli-Egyptian war of 1967, a large number of abandoned war equipment remained here. Before leaving the enemy's territory, Israeli soldiers bulldozed Egyptian property from the cliffs directly into the Red Sea.
"The cliffs are even 80 meters high. The seabed is shallow, the technique starts at a depth of 18 meters, the cemetery continues up to a depth of 100 meters. The visibility that day was 40 meters and the view was impressive - more than 100 units of equipment. Both armored personnel carriers and tanks, tankets, trailers, jeeps, old trucks with round wings, Everything is already overgrown with corals, fish live, ”says Dmitrijs.
Underground diving
The Egyptian authorities have banned diving here, but this is no longer an obstacle for divers. Shamandurs are arranged on the coast of the sea - so the Arabs call a sunken concrete slab with a rope, on the surface of which there is a buoy. During strong winds, yachts moor here. To go "underground diving", the ship stopped at a shamandura, and divers under the water, following the compass, swam 300 meters to the tank dump.
Whoever fails to see it - must be able to talk to both the local club and the ship's captain. "I think the Egyptians forbade diving here for ethical and political reasons," Dmitry admits. One simply does not want anyone to see evidence of the shameful defeat of the country and its army - Israel won in just six days. 450 technical units have been abandoned on the Sinai Peninsula, and there are several such diving sites.
A new place for diving
Even the wreck of the legendary British ship Thistlegorm is not so impressive. In 1941, the ship was carrying trucks, motorcycles, weapons, two locomotives, when it was sunk by German planes. All this is still left in the cargo holds. "The divers are told that if you haven't been to Thistlegorm, you haven't been to Egypt," adds Dmitry. Diving here is officially allowed until it can be found in the Kohraba diving catalogs. "As far as I have talked to the old divers in Latvia, everyone is confused - this place is new to them," said Dmitrijs.
