Site de plongée
Wingate Reef, Port Sudan, Sudan
SS Umbria
Profondeur typique
38m
- Type
- Épave
- Profondeur typique
- 38 m
- Niveau
- Advanced
- Visibilité
- 15–30 m
- Température
- 24–30 °C
- Courant
- Mild
- Accès
- Open access
- Niveau requis
- 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
Quand plonger
IdéalÀ éviterCorrect
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
Notes
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.
Faune marine
- 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
Épave
- Navire
- SS Umbria
- Classe
- armed merchant cargo ship
- Origine
- Italy
- Coulé
- 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
- Longueur
- 155 m
- Pénétration
- Possible — avec formation
Clubs de plongée qui visitent ce site
- Don Questo Sudan Diving Liveaboardsource
Port Sudan, Sudan · Croisière
- Red Sea Diving Safari (M/Y Cassiopeia & Andromeda)source
Egypt + Sudan, Egypt · Croisière
- Red Sea Explorerssource
Red Sea, Egypt · Croisière
- Royal Evolution Liveaboardsource
Egypt-Sudan crossings, Egypt · Croisière
Sources
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