Deep dive

The deepest wreck dive: Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. 205m (670ft)

If you don't want to read the article, this is what I found to be the most interesting.

Firstly, checking to prevent the bends:

Upon reaching Trafco jetty, we left the team and went over to see Dr Adel and Ahmed in the Sharm Hyperbaric facility, so that they could run some tests. They had a new machine called a slit scanner that can detect minute bubble formation in the tear film on the diver’s eyes. We were both given a clean bill of health and returned to Ocean Tec blending station to give a hand pumping all the gas for the big dive on Friday.

Second, coming upon the wreck:

The drop was perfect. The bow of the wreck came into view at 130m, and we descended onto the wreck itself slowly swimming down along the length of its remains. As I reached 195m, a large bang went off behind my left ear, and my dry suit inflator stopped working. I came to a halt at 205m as measured on our dive computers, a Suunto D9 and a Nitek 3.

As we levelled, we could see that we were just under the stern of the wreck, and that the ship was perched on a ledge roughly 40m wide. Beyond this, a vertical wall descended into the abyss. The wreck had slid down the reef walls and slammed into this small ledge stern first. The rest of the wreck crumpled under the force. There she rests to this day slowly filling with sand.

As we swam under the stern my pressure gauge imploded on my intermediate Trimix (16/43). Luckily no leaks occurred, and it just filled with water. One of Leigh’s computers imploded squashing the LCD screen (Vytec).

We finished the bottom time by swimming up the other side of the wreck and surveyed all the scattered wreckage that lay around the site. We gave each other the up signal after a bottom time on the wreck of 5.5 minutes and slowly rose back into the dark blue water. As we did so, we got a fantastic view of the wreck.

The thing that was weird though, was that these people didn't want safety divers with them at the deeper deco stages. The author said he almost had to book to 80 meters when his reg seemingly failed him, but eventually worked. That wouldn't have killed him, but would have put him in a deco chamber for a long, long time.
Whatever, they're British.