Most divers who have visited the immensely popular wreck of the famous SS Thistlegorm in Egypt’s Red Sea have immediately fallen in love with it, but we are, in fact, killing it with our affections. The famous wreck is in peril, but a group of dedicated divers is trying to save it.
SS Thistlegorm Sharm El Sheikh
Probably the diving world’s most famous shipwreck, the SS Thistlegorm was a World War II British military transport that sank while anchored just south of the Gulf of Suez.
The sinking of the ship that was to become the most famous wreck in the Red Sea is a dramatic tale from the African Theater in World War II.