Also known as Lara wreck; لارا
Rusting bow section on the surface of the north-east corner of Jackson Reef acts as the reef's landmark.
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Rusting bow section on the surface of the north-east corner of Jackson Reef acts as the reef's landmark. Depth to 48 m; day boat; strong current. Cypriot merchant ship of about 137 m, aground on Jackson Reef in 1982. The main hull rests at 48 m and deeper and is a technical dive only; the vessel was largely salvaged in 1996, leaving sections on the reef surface (dive-the-world).
Centres that run Lara and the reefs around it.
Sloping reef strewn with the amphora cargo of a wrecked Ottoman-era vessel
Dense carpet of sea anemones and territorial anemonefish on the shallow shelf at the southern end of the Shark Observatory wall
The beacon-marked southern corner of Sha'ab Mahmud
Gently sloping sandy plateau with a V-shaped stream of sand issuing from a small cave
Helwa Ya Baladi
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