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Dive 246, Dunraven, Shaab Mahmoud, Red Sea, 01/12/2014

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In 06:40, dive time 45 minutes, max depth 28 metres.

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Woken at 5:30, briefing & kit up (no breakfast), then by rib to above wreck, drop down, swim against slight current then along hull to stern, enter & swim below prop shaft (wreck is upside down) to boiler above & exit through cloud of glass fish. Bertie some way behind, so wait & drift along reef - lots of coral & fish, including small pipe fish. Shoal of small barracuda, goat fish. Forgot to put red filter on GoPro. Near end of reef put up SMB ok, safety stop & exit to rib near boat. Great dive!

Dunraven built in 1873 in Newcastle, sank in 1876 carrying cotton & wool from Bombay.

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