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Chrisoula K.

    Wreck Information

  • Nationality: Greek
  • Type of wreck: cargo ship
  • Date and place of construction: 1954
  • Date of sinking: September, 1981
  • Length: 120 metres
  • Tonnage: 3700 tons

    • Dive Information

  • Visibility: good
  • Current: no
  • Depth: 31 metres
  • Recommended depth: 25 metres
  • Dive difficulty: easy
  • Inside visit: no
  • Biological interests: groupers, moray eels, napoleons, soft corals, tree soft corals

    • Wreck Picture

  • Relitto Chrisoula K.

Wreck Description

It was in September 1981 - the exact date is not known - that the cargo boat Chrisoula K. ran into the Sha'ab Abu Nuhas reef. The vessel had come from Italy, was bound for Jeddah, in Saudi Arabia, and its cargo consisted essentially of blocks of stone. The reasons of the disaster are to be understanded, anyway the most likely one is a navigation error; the violence of the impact threw the Chrisoula K. right onto the reef: the bow section broke away and was left perched on the corals, the remaining three quarters of the vessel tipped over, falling onto the starboard flank with the stern pointing north-east. Fortunately the entire crew was rescued.