Thistlegorm and DPVs

So here is another update on my diving adventures without any underwater pictures (coming soon). So in the past week I got the chance to try using a DPV and was lucky enough to dive the SS Thistlegorm, both 2 of the coolest things i have ever done underwater.

Diver propulsion vehicles (DPVs) are basically like a very maneuverable torpedo you hold on to while diving. They make diving very exciting and fast, you can do barrel rolls, zoom around coral pinnacles and try to keep up with fish. But unlike normal diving dpvs make you feel like your moving in an evironment with no gravity, very disorienting but super fun one you get the hang of it.The SS Thistlegorm is a 420 shipwreck in about 100 feet of water off the coast of Sharm el Sheik. It is supposedly one of the preimere shipwrecks in the world. No pictures or description can do it justice.

Boats arriving at the dive site

A very popular site

I dove the wreck 2 times, the first swimming around the entirety of the ship and entering the capain quarters. On the second dive we penetrated the hold of the ship which i can describe as only Indiana Jones underwater. The hold is filled with military trucks, ammo, airplane wings and hundreds of motocycles. It is also the first place i have ever felf claustrophobic. 80 ft down inside a shipwreck in a hallway quickly becomes almost overwhelming (side note, can someone just be "whelmed" or do them have to be overwhelmed?) Around the wreck there is some of the largest schools of fish and tuna i have ever seen.

We finished the day with another dive at Shark Reef hoping to see some of the bigger life the red sea has to offer. We didnt see any sharks, but like the wreck, the schools of fish were abundant, and we got to see a giant moray eel getting its mouth cleaned by some cleaner wrass'.

Ill have the underwater pics from the wreck and the DPV up as soon as I get them.