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Title: Carnatic Bow. Red Sea.
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A diver explores the coral covered bow (including soft corals: Dendronephthya hemprichi) of the wreck of the SS Carnatic, a 90m (290ft) schooner which sunk in 1869 on the Abu Nuhas Reef, Strait of Gubal, Red Sea. Egypt. Photo taken in the afternoon.
In Jules Verne's 1872 novel, Around the World in Eighty Days, Phileas Fogg intends to take a steamer named Carnatic to travel from Hong Kong to Yokohama, but misses it. His valet, Passepartout, catches the ship, however.
In Jules Verne's 1872 novel, Around the World in Eighty Days, Phileas Fogg intends to take a steamer named Carnatic to travel from Hong Kong to Yokohama, but misses it. His valet, Passepartout, catches the ship, however.
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- Red Sea
- sub-tropical
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