Bow of the Salem Express wreck | off coast of Safaga

bow of the Salem Express wreck. Sunk on December 16th 1991, the Salem was packed with passengers returning from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, bound for the port of Safaga, when she struck one of the banks of coral that just break the surface south of Hyndman Reef in the Egyptian Red Sea . The official count of people was 690, with only 180 survivors . Red Sea, Safaga, Egypt, Middle East,