Very little about this wreck is published. This is everything that could be confirmed. Nothing below comes from a survey, so treat the model as a sketch to correct against your own dives.
- Name
- Known locally as the Cement Wreck. No ship name, build year, tonnage or date of loss could be found in public sources.
- Location
- Just off Bay La Sun in King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC), Rabigh Governorate, north of Jeddah on the Red Sea coast
- Access
- Listed by Visit Saudi, the national tourism site, as a KAEC diving-trip attraction. Boat trips leave from the Bay La Sun marina area.
- Cargo
- Not documented. The name suggests cement, and the model assumes bagged cement that set solid when the holds flooded. This is common on cement wrecks elsewhere.
- Depths
- Not published. The model assumes a recreational site, with the sand at – m.
With no plans, photos or survey to work from, the ship is a typical small motor coaster of the 1960s–80s. Every hotspot is marked Reconstructed.
Assumed
- Hull: 52 m long, 9.4 m beam, 4.6 m depth to the main deck. Raked stem, raised forecastle, flat transom stern.
- Layout: two holds forward of the machinery, one mast with two derricks between the holds, and aft accommodation with the wheelhouse and funnel on top.
- Attitude: upright on flat sand with about 8° of list to port, and the keel settled into the sand. That puts the masthead at – m, the wheelhouse roof at – m, the main deck at – m and the sand at – m.
- Cargo: 50 kg cement sacks, set hard and stacked in both holds, with the top tiers slumped in places. A split in the port side abreast the aft hold has let sacks spill into a mound on the sand.
- Hatch covers gone (one slid into the aft hold, one on the sand), glass gone from the wheelhouse, lifeboat gone from its davits.
- A fringing reef rises on the starboard side. The reef's bearing and distance from the wreck are illustrative only, as are compass headings.
- The fish are typical of Red Sea wrecks and reefs at this depth: anthias, fusiliers, glassfish, lionfish, morays, snappers, barracuda and blue-spotted stingrays. None of them is a documented sighting at this site.
Dive mode
- The dive computer's no-decompression limit uses the recreational air table and a simple nitrogen-loading estimate. Gas use assumes a 12 L tank and 15 L/min surface consumption. It is for immersion only. Never plan a real dive with it.
- Breathing cycles every 5 seconds. Exhaled bubbles rise and grow as they rise, as they do in real water. Regulator sound is synthesised in your browser.
How it's rendered
- Water absorbs red light fastest, then green, then blue. The shader applies that per channel along both the sunlight's path down and your line of sight. Switch on the torch to bring the colour back up close.
- Moving caustics, light shafts, marine snow, ambient occlusion and bloom. Growth, rust, sack weave and sand ripples are generated per pixel from position, so detail holds up close. Turn off Cinematic on slower devices.
What would sharpen it
- Depths from your dive computer at the sand, the main deck, the top of the wheelhouse and the highest point
- Whether she is upright or on her side, where the superstructure is (aft, amidships or none), and roughly how long she is
- What the cement looks like now (stacked sacks, a solid mass, or spilled on the sand) and where the reef is
- A lap of the hull on video at a steady 2–3 m standoff. That is enough for photogrammetry.
No dive-site write-up, survey or public footage of this wreck turned up. These are the sources for the location and for dive trips from KAEC.
Written sources
Help fill the gaps
- If you have dived it, your photos, video and computer log will turn this from a sketch into a record.