Best wreck for vintage motorcycle fans

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Not for the claustrophobic, this wreck offers room after underwater room of war supplies. In 1941, two bombs sunk this British armed Merchant Navy ship in the Red Sea near Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. It’s a true wartime wreck still holding most of her cargo. 

Divers thread overtop Bedford trucks and a fleet of Norton 16H motorcycles, keeping buoyancy so as not to brush against the rooms’ ceilings, now painted with divers’ exhaust bubbles trapped as mirror-like puddles. It’s a dive that can be as mentally taxing as it is physical: The wreck lies at a depth of 30m and the stern is tilted on its port side, making disorientation likely


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