Everything in this list comes from published dive-site descriptions. It drives the model's depth, attitude and layout.
- Name
- M.V. Glaros, known to divers as the Chicken Wreck
- Type
- Diesel refrigerated cargo ship (reefer), about 60 m long
- Lost
- Ran aground outside Jeddah creek on 20 Nov 1976 and sank on 22 Nov. All crew were rescued.
- Cargo
- Frozen chicken, which gave the wreck its name
- Attitude
- On its port side, bow pointing toward the reef, sheltered between two adjacent reefs
- Depths
- Deepest point 22 m (72 ft) at the stern. Other guides give 18–20 m for the wreck as a whole.
- Features
- The rail is undamaged and covered in hard coral. The masts carry hard and soft corals. The holds are easy to penetrate. Technical divers reach the crew quarters through letterbox-shaped doors, with porcelain sinks and clothes tied to heating pipes still inside.
- Life
- Abundant pipefish; pixie hawkfish on the flank facing the surface; lionfish, moray eels, barracuda, angelfish and butterflyfish
- Conditions
- Calm currents year-round thanks to the neighbouring reefs, so it suits novice divers. Visibility around 17 m. November to January is the best season.
No plans, survey, sonar scan or photogrammetry set of the Glaros is published, so the geometry is an informed reconstruction. It is built to fit the known depths and descriptions, and it should be corrected against your own footage.
Assumed
- Hull: a 1950s–60s reefer of 60 m length, 9.6 m beam and 5.2 m depth, rolled about 82° onto the port side and settled about 1.4 m into the sand.
- The seabed rises from 22 m at the stern toward the reef at the bow. That puts the upturned starboard side at roughly 13 m at its shallowest. This top depth is derived, not documented.
- Layout: raised forecastle, three insulated holds, foremast and mainmast with derricks, and the accommodation, bridge and funnel aft.
- The crew-quarters doors sit in the forward face of the aft deckhouse. With the ship on its side they turn into horizontal slots, which fits the "letterbox" description.
- Cartons in the holds are illustrative. Frozen cargo from 1976 would long since have broken down.
- Reef placement and the compass heading are illustrative only.
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, which is why colour fades with depth and distance. Switch on the torch to see colour come back up close.
- Moving caustics, light shafts, marine snow, ambient occlusion and bloom. Growth, rust and sand ripples are generated per pixel from world position, so the detail holds up close. Turn off Cinematic on slower devices.
What would sharpen it
- A lap of the hull in video at a steady 2–3 m standoff, plus a few measured distances (stem to foremast, hatch length). That is enough for real photogrammetry in Metashape, RealityCapture or Polycam.
- A compass heading along the keel, and a depth at bow, stern and the top of the flank.
- Lloyd's Register details for the Glaros (tonnage, builder, year) to fix the hull form and superstructure.
Photos and footage of this site mostly sit on Instagram, YouTube and dive-log platforms. Use them as visual reference, or ask their owners for raw footage.
Written sources