Welcome to episode 133!
Scuba diving iconic Red Sea shipwreck the Giannis D!
In this episode, Emperor Superior anchors up at the naval graveyard of the Red Sea, Abu Nuhas. Here four shipwrecks met their end including the iconic Giannis D!
Is the Giannis D the best shipwreck in the Red Sea?
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Dive Site:
Giannis D
History:
Originally named Shoyo Maru, the Giannis D was a 99-metre-long cargo ship built in Japan at the Kuryshima Dock Company of Imabari in 1969.
The Giannis D received her European name in 1980, after being sold to the Greece-based Dumarc Shipping and Trading Corporation of Piraeus, Athens. Her final voyage started at Rijeka, Yugoslavia, in 1983 when it loaded its cargo of softwood (teak wood according to some sources) and set sail to Jeddah via the Suez Canal. The ship was sailing through the Strait of Gubal, the last narrow passage before reaching the open waters of the Red Sea when the Captain left the helm to one of the officers and retired for some rest.
Soon after, he was abruptly awakened by the sound of metal crashing on rocks, as his ship ran aground. The ship had drifted away from its planned route, and hit the northwest edge of the reef at full speed. After several weeks on the reef, during a storm, the ship’s hull broke, and the Giannis D sank to the bottom.
The remains of the Giannis D lies parallel to the reef between 10 and 28 metres in depth divided into three separate sections. The highly-damaged bow is in the shallower part, the cargo area amidships is a debris field of steel and wood, and the stern section is in the deeper area, leaving that section well preserved. While having spent less time underwater compared to some other wrecks in the area, the Giannis D is extensively covered in beautiful soft corals and offers shelter to a vast population of reef inhabitants, including moray eels and clouds of glassfish.
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