Diving the SS Thistlegorm

The SS Thistlegorm was a British armed Merchant Navy ship built in 1940 by Joseph Thompson & Son in Sunderland, England. The Thistlegorm was part of operation "Crusader" in World War II, an important operation designed to maintain the supply of materials to the British Forces in North Africa. Two heavily armed German Heinkel He-111 bombers based in Crete were ordered to the area. The order for the two planes was to locate British supply vessels and sink them. She was sunk on 6 October 1941 near Ras Muhammad in the Red Sea and is now a well known dive site. This single vessel attracts more divers than any other underwater site; anywhere in the entire world! Since being re-discovered in the early nineties, the Thistlegorm has consistently remained "The World's Foremost Diving Attraction". It is a very famous dive site because of its history and because of the fact that majority of its supplies is still there at a possible depth. This shipwreck is an underwater military museum!