Al Shorouk
This wreck lies deep off the Eel Canyon dive site, to the West of Kirk's Forest in 37 - 58m. The ship is lying on her starboard side across two reefs lying West to East (bow to the East) this means that depths of over 60m can easily be acheived under the wreck. She was scuttled by the Aqaba Marine Park on 18th June 2008. As she started to sink she started to drift and could have easily ended up in over 100m of water, they managed to push it back to a diveable depth just before she slipped beneath the waves creating a new exciting site for technical divers visiting Aqaba making an addition to the other technical diving wreck the Taiyong. There is a buoy on the bow of the wreck, also a rope from the stern but this ends 12m from the surface, so don't use this as an ascent line. Its best to travel to the north for decompression and and up at the famous M42 tank in 6m avoiding long blue water hangs. Underwater photography by Andrey Ryanskiy Survey by Aqaba Diving Services
