The wreck of the SS Thistlegorm in the Red Sea

2006

The wreck of the SS Thistlegorm in the Red Sea

The bridge of the SS Thistlegorm, a British supply ship sunk in the Red Sea in 1941. Cousteau's team located and filmed the wreck in 1955 and published it in National Geographic, which is how it became one of the best known dive sites in the world.

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