Salem Express

The Salem Express was a ferry bringing pilgrims home from Mecca via Jeddah when she struck the Hyndman Reefs in rough weather on a December night in 1991 and sank within minutes. The official toll was around 470 lives; unofficial estimates run far higher, and the scale of the loss shapes how the wreck is dived. She lies complete on her starboard side, huge and instantly readable - twin funnels marked with the company's initial, lifeboats on the sand, the bow visor ajar - and personal effects still scattered around the seabed make the human cost unavoidable. Many guides decline to enter the interior, and this database takes the same line: dive the exterior, keep voices and torch beams considerate, and treat the site as the grave it is.

その瞬間のために: An intact, legible large ferry at recreational depth; the twin funnels and lifeboats; a powerful, somber atmosphere unlike any other Red Sea dive.

地形: Large ferry lying on its starboard side on a sand seabed

エントリー: Off the Hyndman Reefs south of Safaga - a long run from Hurghada, more often dived from Safaga or on southbound liveaboards.

危険生物・リスク: Emotional weight aside, the practical risks are entanglement around davits and cables and the pull to enter spaces best left alone.

保全: Widely treated as a grave site. Touch nothing, take nothing, and leave personal effects exactly where they lie.

ナイトロックス: ここでは効果的です——このエリアのプロファイルは、ナイトロックスが無減圧潜水時間を有意に延ばせる水深帯にあります（適切なトレーニングを受けていることが前提です）。