+1 to the above.
Stay with your DM. He will take you on the "guided tours" through the interior so you'll see all the stuff pictured above by
NWGD. Not as photogenic, but worth finding on your exploration: the 16" artillery shells, the locomotive that broke free, the Wellington boots, the Enfield rifles, the details of the motorcycle batteries, the perfect "bones" of the vehicle seats stripped of leather, all sorts of stuff.
The wreck of
the toilet bowl ship (with the Captain's BMW) requires the appropriate photo pose. Piles of Russian/Egyptian Tanks, now parked under a cliff.
Here's one in the Straits of Tirhan, one with quite a story, they'll tell you of yet another dumbass cruise ship Captain:
The big problem with this entire area is the preponderance of wrecks. The local DMs are expert technicians on guiding you to and through these wrecks. Most of them, however, are absolutely clueless about any animal except Sharks. This is working well for the DMs as most people are captivated by wrecks and Mr. Grey, but there is so much more, right there for the gawking.
Night diving is not high on their activity list. Sitting in 45fsw at night with 80° temps and my buddies are drinking beer on the top deck and smoking Shisha. (Sheesh!). And, in example:
Any Brits know this guy? (Chipmunk cheeks, lives for beer, writes better than he speaks, teaches you new words in "English", the bane of PADI North America)
I go solo night diving. Found my first pair of Sea Moths.
On a late afternoon solo dive, I was summarily assaulted by a Titan Ocean Trigger (whatever it's called, it was pissed off).
The wrecks are cool, the Thistlegorm is the most interesting, there are Sharks (they will steam right past "the Observatory"), but there is so much more that most guests, thus the DMs, are unaware of.
The town of Sharm itself is a delight.
The town of Sharm sleeps during the day. Then, as the cool night prevails, the boys come out to peel back the covering rugs from the outside couches in front of the Shisha Bars. Observe this strange metamorphosis at dusk. The town
begins to wake up at 2100 hrs.
Notice though, if you will, they have (real tungsten filament) electric light bulbs
everywhere and they are always
turned on and burning.
It is good to be King.
I had to try it....
Glad I did. Yummy. I guess.
