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Dive Sites & Wrecks
10 articles on Dive Sites & Wrecks from the instructors at SEALS Diving Center in Beirut, Lebanon.
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HMS Victoria — The Only Wreck in the World Standing Vertically
A Royal Navy flagship, rammed by her own squadron in 1893, that came to rest bow-first in the seabed with her stern pointing at the surface. She is real, she is off Lebanon — and almost nobody can dive her.
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Every Dive Site on the Lebanese Coast — Depth, Level and What You'll See
Lebanon's coast is short enough to drive in an afternoon and holds wrecks, walls, canyons and caves. Here is what is actually down there, at what depth, and what level you need.
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The Souffleur — Diving a French Submarine Sunk Off Beirut in 1941
A Requin-class French submarine, torpedoed by a British submarine in 1941 during a campaign most people have never heard of, now lying broken in two on the sand south of Beirut.
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Wreck Diving in Lebanon — A Coastline of Submarines, Freighters and Flagships
Two hundred and twenty kilometres of coast, and a wreck list that would embarrass most countries ten times the size. Here is what is down there and who can actually reach it.
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What You'll Actually See Underwater in Lebanon
The Eastern Mediterranean is not a coral reef and never was. What it is, once you learn to look at it properly, is considerably more interesting than most divers expect.
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Diving Batroun and the North — Where Lebanon's Water Gets Clear
An hour north of Beirut the water changes. Less run-off, less development, and the best visibility in the country — plus a cement freighter and real caverns.
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The Alice B — The Jounieh Wreck and the Story Around It
Lebanon's most accessible real wreck — a cargo ship on the sand in Jounieh Bay, shallow enough at the top that you can actually spend the dive looking at it.
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Shark Point, Beirut — The Dive Everyone Starts Asking About
The name does most of the work. The reality is a deep, current-swept site with rays, morays and — in high summer, sometimes — a harmless sand tiger shark.
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Technical Diving in Lebanon — Where Recreational Limits End
Lebanon's coastline has more below 40 metres than above it. Here is what technical diving actually is, what it demands, and why most divers should not do it.
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The Riviera Caves and Beirut's Underwater Rock Formations
The rock that makes Raouché famous above water keeps going below it. Arches, cuts and swim-throughs a short ride from the corniche — and one important word of caution.
