The second day of diving involved driving to Sharm el Sheikh to do the Thistlegorm Wreck:

Travelling out to sea in style via a 5* dive boat:

Watching diving videos on the plasma to get us in the mood:

Sunning on the deck:

And then down ya go!

The Thistlegorm (a fully loaded supply ship) was sunk October 1941 when German bombers dropped 2 1000lb bombs directly on the ship.

The force of the explosion was so massive that it blew two locomotives off the deck. Here's one of them:

The back of some of the ammo, showing the date they were made, 1929:

Here's one of the 4.7 inch anti-aircraft guns with my dive buddy holding on to it. I turned around to check on him and he was waving to me, so I thought "oh, he want's me to take a photo of him", so I did:

He then started pointing down at the ground, so I thought "oh, there's something down there to take a photo of, is there?!" and as I was looking for whatever it was, the cameraman filming us takes off down to the sea bed, just as I notice what he's going for, my buddy's weight belt! He was holding on to the 50 cal gun to stop himself floating to the surface (which would cause the bends)!!! I raced over and grabbed his legs to hold him down while the camera man brought his weight belt back up, we both put it back on him, got the PADI OK from my dive Buddy and carried on!

Crazy, that's why you always dive with a buddy... :-)

The wreck itself was fantastic to explore, the first pass was diving around the outside:

Here's half a paravane (torpedo used for cutting mines adrift) in front of another locomotive:

Close-up of the torpedo:

Winches:

Here's a tank wagon which has been crushed with the pressure:

And then it was off inside the wreck to swim around two levels:

Motorbike wheel:

.303 rifles laid muzzle to butt:

Spare airplane wings:

Bedford truck:

Truck wheels:

Swimming around the deck, about to swim under the covered walkway below the bridge:

And finally surfacing back to the boat:

Here's our camera man: