The battery room contained over 200 batteries in 4 sections each with a schematic at each end. The switches were all labeled in Russian. Desks packed with electronic gauges, dials, knobs and switches – desks for 6-10 personnel. One room, located below and behind the bridge was a communications centre. But the presence of electronic equipment suggests that the ship was most likely used for surveillance or communications.

Some say that this ship was the “ Khanka,” a fishing trawler believed to have sunk in the area. Known only as the “ Russian Wreck”, the mysterious sunken ship was discovered in 1988 beneath eighty feet (24m) of water. “ Russian Wreck” Off Zabagad Island, South Egyptian Red Sea Lost, destroyed, or deliberately sunk, these wrecks are of interest to divers, underwater archaeologists, and treasure hunters alike.ġ0. The United Nations estimates that there are over three million shipwrecks on the ocean floors. Traces of these explorers, heroes, and merchants can still be found in our oceans divers among us can explore their sunken vessels, which have been essentially frozen in time. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.” – Joseph Conrad.įor millennia, the open waters have beckoned to us, calling adventurous souls to their liberation-and, in many cases, to their doom.

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