(Image: ierdnall; sunken tank wreck dive beneath the waters of the Gulf of Aqaba)
The location itself may not be as impressive as the watery resting place of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s fleet at the bottom of Truk Lagoon, Micronesia, where long-submerged tanks, cars, aircraft and other eerie wartime relics lie amid the vast shipwrecks. But this sunken M42 Duster combat vehicle carcass nevertheless cuts an intriguing form on the seabed.
(Image: ierdnall)
The mobile anti-aircraft gun sits on a reef in the Gulf of Aqaba, a body of water on the north side of the Red Sea, east of the Sinai Peninsula. Unlike many of the numerous wrecks littering the seabed of that region, however, the M42 is understood to have been deliberately submerged for the benefit of scuba divers. Its fighting days now behind it, the abandoned military vehicle has taken on an altogether more peaceful atmosphere, a playground for shoals of fish and a point of interest for tourists off the coast of Jordan.
(Thanks to Bob Smith and Steve Vargo for identifying the M42, previously incorrectly described as a tank.)
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