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Dive #334 · Friday, 13 October 2017
The Barge and the Ulysses, Bluff Point
Red Sea The Strait of Gubal
- Day 1 of 6 · Egypt Oct 2017 →
- 2nd dive of the day(also #333 Small Gubal Island, #335 Small Gubal Island)
- deeper than 85 % of all dives
- Max depth
- 26.5 m
- Avg depth
- 16.4 m
- Bottom time
- 48 min
- SAC
- 9.6 l/min11.1 L · 210→100 bar
- Surface
- 25 °C
- Air
- 25 °C
Kit
- Gas
- Nitrox 32 · measured 27 %
- Cylinder
- D80
- Pressure
- 210 → 100 bar
- Mode
- Open circuit
- Suit
- Egypte 17: Alu80, drysuit, 2 kg lood, steel HP, thermo-ondergoed
- Conditions
- Choppy
Where
The Barge and the Ulysses, Bluff Point
Two wrecks off the north-east corner of Gubal Seghir — an 1887 steamer embedded in coral, and a small British barge that has become the best night dive in the northern Red Sea.
The only dive here
With
On the map
Ulysses and the Barge
No route marked
- Entry / exit
- Hazard
- Point of interest
- Wreck
- Lighthouse / tower
- Machinery
- Other object
- Shoreline
- Dive path
- Wall / drop-off
- Shallows
- Wreck footprint
- Depth
Map © divelog-sites contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf
Plan: explore the ship and then follow the current along the reef. This is the first wreck with a name on this trip; only the steel structure is left. The plan was for the zodiac to drop us on the deep side, but it put us off at the shallow section, of which little remains, and so I was a bit disoriented. The wreck itself was very photogenic because the holds have lots of colourfully overgrown beams and a big opening upward with a great many glassfish. I was very busy with the video camera; it might have been better to do that later in the week.