Dive of Death
Egypt's newest tombs come with eels, lion fish and grave robbers GLOBE AND MAIL TRAVEL 27/10/2017, DIVER MAGAZINE By Stephen Weir A black and white portable television hangs in the black water above the scuba divers while a sharkless remora glides unconcerned through the glare of the underwater lights. The torches illuminate a ship’s hold filled with the luggage of hundreds of dead pilgrims. A wheel barrel is all but covered by a mountain of ripped and torn soft back suitcases. Cotton bundles of clothing, still bearing stencilled Mecca slogans, have crushed a baby’s stroller and a companion crib. The dust and grime from a month long desert pilgrimage has left this jumbled mountain of abandoned possessions and now clouds the water inside Egypt’s newest tomb -- the wreck of the Salem Express. Like the hundreds of other tourists who come each week to dive on the remains of this Red Sea shipwreck, our team of divers is touring a very recent deep water gravesite. What