Bakr

see DIVE JUNE 2006

SURVEY VESSEL SURVEYED

On APRIL 3RD 2006, Brighton BSAC joined the  WRECK EXPEDITION TO RAS GHARIB, led by DIVE correspondent Peter Collings.The group successfully located, surveyed and identified the Russian built 147ft,416 ton survey vessel BAKR The motor survey vessel belonged to the United Arab Republic General Petroleum Co, when she was sunk at Ras Gharib by Israeli missiles on October 14th 1973 during the Yom Kippur.

The wreck was located during a series of searches for several known casualties in the vicinity of RAS GHARIB.

“The wreck sits upright on a clean sandy bed, and although the hull is fairly intact the damage from the missile attack is fairly evident. Most of the surveying equipment remains- large cable reels used in conjunction with towed arrays cover the aft deck and two booms are still swung out aft of the control centre. The lower decks are accsssable ,but cables hang everywhere.in the control centre.

Marine life includes juvenile barracuda and an assortment of larger than life nudibrancks