- Type
- Wreck
- Typical depth
- 38 m
- Level
- Advanced
- Visibility
- 15–30 m
- Water temp
- 24–30 °C
- Current
- Mild
- Access
- Open access
- Min cert
- 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
When to dive
BestAvoidOK
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.
Marine life
- 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
Wreck
- Vessel
- SS Umbria
- Class
- armed merchant cargo ship
- Origin
- Italy
- Sunk
- 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
- Length
- 155 m
- Penetration
- Possible — with training
Dive clubs that visit this site
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Port Sudan, Sudan · Liveaboard
- Red Sea Diving Safari (M/Y Cassiopeia & Andromeda)source
Egypt + Sudan, Egypt · Liveaboard
- Red Sea Explorerssource
Red Sea, Egypt · Liveaboard
- Royal Evolution Liveaboardsource
Egypt-Sudan crossings, Egypt · Liveaboard
Sources
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