The Barge Wreck (night dive) 2010 Red Sea

filmed may 2010
The Gubal Barge is a small open black hull some 35m long, now collapsed in places, with dark dusty sand in its bottom. It is frequented by most of the Egyptian liveaboard boats making the northern itinerary runs, either from Sharm el Sheikh or Hurghada. It is believed to be a vessel sunk during the Arab-Israeli war, and rests on a gradually sloping coral garden, in 15m of water and famed for night dives, the last dive of the day. At a constant depth of 15m, Nitrox gas is best as the no-decompression limits can be reached quickly without thinking!
The barge is located on the south side of Big Gubal Island, north of Hurghada, were fishing and liveaboard boats moor up for the night in this sheltered spot. It is an anomaly, just a shell of wreckage with nothing else around except a coral garden that has seen better days; it shouldn't exist as a superb dive site but does. This is in the main due to its location, right where boats moor. These boats like to throw biological waste over the side and have done so for many years, hence the scavengers.
You could say that the local fishing & diving communities have a symbiotic relationship with the marine creatures below. These creatures decide to stick around to be photographed and gawked at if they are occasionally thrown titbits. The marine life is wild and not deliberately fed, but coincidental.

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The giant Moray Eel @ 03.30 is such a frequent visitor to this dive site he was christened and baptised by the local dive guides as "George"