- Typ
- Wrack
- Typische Tiefe
- 38 m
- Niveau
- Advanced
- Sicht
- 15–30 m
- Wassertemperatur
- 24–30 °C
- Strömung
- Mild
- Zugang
- Open access
- Mindeststufe
- Advanced Open Water + wreck specialty. Penetration is straightforward by wreck standards but the holds full of live ordnance demand strict no-touch discipline and very precise buoyancy.
- Wreck
- Penetration
- Historic
- Overhead Environment
- Unexploded Ordnance
- Reef Wreck
Beste Zeit
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Sudanese Red Sea is divable year-round but summer brings extreme topside heat. Spring and autumn are calmest. Liveaboard or Port Sudan day-boat access; politics dictate availability more than weather.
19.6133° N, 37.2444° E
Notizen
Italian merchant scuttled by her captain on 9 Jun 1940 to keep her cargo — ~6,000 tons of aerial bombs and detonators — from falling to the British.
Meereslebewesen
- Other
- approximately 6,000 tons of unexploded aerial bombs and detonators still in the cargo holds
- Corals
- hard coral encrusting the davits and bridge wings
- Turtles
- hawksbill, green
- Pelagics
- barracuda, tuna
- Reef fish
- napoleon wrasse, snapper, sweetlips, batfish
Wrack
- Schiff
- SS Umbria
- Klasse
- armed merchant cargo ship
- Herkunft
- Italy
- Gesunken
- 1940 — scuttled by her captain, Lorenzo Muiesan, on 9 Jun 1940 to deny her cargo to British forces hours after Italy's declaration of war
- Länge
- 155 m
- Penetration
- Möglich — mit Ausbildung
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