10 Beautiful Shipwreck Dives

May 19, 2009 by admin  
Filed under Featured, Odd and Bizarre, Places


1. SS Thistlegorm, Egypt

When a German bomb tore through her port side in 1941, the SS Thistlegorm sank to a watery grave in the Egyptian Red Sea—and into the annals of diving history. Discovered by nautical legend Jacques Cousteau in 1956, the Thistlegorm is a spectacular sunken museum of motorbikes, cargo trucks, tanks, artillery shells and other World War II relics. Read more