Hebat Allah

Before being sunk, the Hebat Allah spent some years stranded on a reef just outside Hurghada's main harbor, after breaking her moorings in heavy weather. The Red Sea Diving Association, with the Egyptian Navy and the Red Sea Governor, obtained the ship from her owner, Mohamedi Hoeidek, by purchase or, as some say, by donation. The idea was to relieve the pressure of dive tourism on other sites in the area. The plan was to leave her within reach of recreational divers, but the right spot was missed and she ended up deeper than intended. She was opened as an official dive site in December 2005. In 2009 the wreck was fitted with mooring lines, and between December 2009 and January 2010 divers removed old and damaged guidelines from inside.

The ship sits upright on the bottom, with her bow pointing to about 330° and a three-level superstructure. At the stern, the propeller is intact and only the rudder has broken off. The assessment dives of October 2009 found plenty of fish, such as groupers and lionfish, but little coral cover, probably due to slow growth and the distance from an established reef. Coral growth is still in its early stages, but there is already quite a lot of marine life: large groupers and moray eels have settled on the wreck, and there are lionfish of impressive size.

The site lies in open water, with no shelter from reefs or islands, and dives have to be planned with the wind in mind. In July 2024 there was no buoy on the wreck, which cannot be seen from the surface and can only be found with its GPS coordinates. That same month it was digitized by photogrammetry, and a 3D model of the ship has been published.