Dived on her twice, 1993 and 1994. The reef is Shaab Sheer. Reef About 3 mts at low tide. Wreck at sea bed 32 mts. Still leaking oil then, Radome intact bows wide open, thrusters clear, prams, tv's carpets littered the area. Through porthole crockery visible with a red rose pattern. Bridge windows smashed, inside bridge relatively intact, bell GONE!. Doors open freely but, sad to say human bones deterred us further. A year later the trophy hunters had had there fill. Wreck, (a tomb) was plundered. Radome cover on sea bed inside gutted for souvenirs as had the bridge, oh and the crockery also gone. Locals tell of the captain knowing the risk too a short route over Shaab to save time in bad weather. So sad 'fellow?' divers have to desecrate the dead. Take away memories leave what is not yours.
I dived the Salem Express, this was with respect outside only, knowing the history it was a very sad dive, I have dived lots of wreaks but this was the only one to bring tears to my eyes underwater.
Can u tell me more about it .....u saw alot due to ur job why this one was the most tragic ....is it because of the many bodies that were trapped there ?
@@ghadaanwar6225 - yes, there’s still unrecovered bodies on her as well as well preserved artifacts, luggage, pushchairs, etc. Along with sunken lifeboats scattered around. It’s also a relatively new wreck at about 30 years, an avoidable accident with massive loss of life is quite sad indeed. If you check out 9mins onward on this video you can see all the luggage
@@elmo319Então Como O Navio Virou A Bombordo E As Coisas Caíram Para O Lado E As Bagagens Caíram Em Cima De Várias Pessoas , Então Embaixo Dessas Bagagens Há Corpos Ainda , É Isso Que Vc Quer Dizer ???
I have never ever had such doubts about diving a wreck as when diving the Salem Express a couple of years ago; never cried during a dive before. Felt like trespassing. RIP.
Excellent video. Absolutely horrible tragedy. I was in the Navy in 1991, and we cruised right by the wreck site several times, which occurred about 2 months after we exited the Red Sea.
crazy it's a Metallica cover right?? i liked them when i was a teenager in the 1980s, but i can't listen to angry headbanging noise nowadays lol. But i agree this version is great!
@@liisamaarit4607 First song is indeed Evanescence My Immortal, but the referenced song is Gregorian Masters of Chant cover of Metallica's Nothing Else Matters.
Dived this wreck about 13years ago , didn't like it at all especially with the personal debris laying on the sea bed. I remember getting caught up on the wires on my tank as we went through the bridge lucky my buddy managed to get me free not a nice experience!
There are no mcars on the RoRo deck, but plenty of luggage and the davids are still in resting position. So they stored people on the RoRo deck and didn't even attempt an orderly evacuation.
this made me more sad than the titanic I love seeing the leftovers of the past, but seeing strollers and baby shoes from 1991 knowing so many people died was kinda haunting.
J'ai de suite reconnu l ancien ferry de la société nationale corse méditerranée (SNCM)qu on prenait de Toulon pour partir en Corse pour les vacances d'été dans les années 70, chez la famille!
At one stage ww2 shipwrecks were plundered for their metal mainly because of low no radiation has effected the steel or other metals but didnt stop scrapmetal scavengers from tearing these ships part which evidence contained the remains of sailors
I think you’re mixing a few stories. The main source of low background radiation steel (cast before any nuclear blasts) was the sunken German naval fleet from World War 1, and there were no dead sailors in those ships, they were scuttled…which means sunk deliberately…by the German naval high command to keep the Allies from getting their hands on them. Basically a final act of spite.
عبارة السلام 98كان حادثة غرقها مساوي جدا و مولم والضحايا بلغ عددهم 1070نسمه أما الناجين فكانو قليل ،تعرضو للعديد من الكوارث منها البرد و الظلام الذي كان يحيط بهم و الهلع ،كان الحادث مدبر لقتل كل هؤلاء البشر من أجل ضحايا لإرضاء الشيطان ضحايا بشريه بريئه قضيت في هذ الحادث ،وليس السبب من أجل التأمين لكن الحادث فضيع جدا و كان من أجل تقديم قرابين بشريه للشيطان بدليل تبرئة المجرمين ،أنهم أعوان الشيطان من تسسبب في هذا الحادث بالحادث حدث في ايام مباركه للمسلمين ايام العشر من ذي الحجه سنة 1427- 2006 ،الرحمه على أرواح الشهداء الطاهرين الأبرياء.
What a truly horrific ending for the victims, trapped in a fast flooding, capsizing ferry, unable to escape to safety before the vessel sinks! What recklessly negligent judgment on the part of the bridge crew to strike a reef, and with such catastrophic force that the vessel sinks within minutes! The salvage recovery of this wreck would have been one of the easiest to have ever been undertaken due to the remarkably shallow depth at which she lays. The removal of victims could have been carried out whilst the wreck was out of the water, as happened with Sewol.
@@MrMaverick1204 Here is footage of a dive just a month after the ship sank featuring a body. Out of the 464 people that died only 117 bodies were recovered ua-cam.com/video/TTsnI4FFQ1Q/v-deo.html
My mom and dad where gonna go on ferry 98 but they thankfully decided not to but they didn’t know this was a choice that saved there life if not they would have been skeletons and I would had never been a thing they went on the ferry 98 before in 2005 1 year before the ship wreck the exact same one.......wow,thank god then they went by a plane from that day they never stepped foot in a ship or boat ever again
If you ask me the penny pinching owners that forego maintenance for profit and the captains that F-up causing these tragedies and are the first off, should all have cinderblocks tied to their feet and be thrown in at the wreck site. But that's just me.
This is the dumest render of Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters". This isn't a "the sky opens up as Angelic being descend" type of music. Who ever the group that is plying their own version has really made it bad. You should had choose something else. Anyway, the Dive part of the vid is good.
Don’t cry for the dead, cry for the living.
Dived on her twice, 1993 and 1994. The reef is Shaab Sheer. Reef About 3 mts at low tide. Wreck at sea bed 32 mts. Still leaking oil then, Radome intact bows wide open, thrusters clear, prams, tv's carpets littered the area. Through porthole crockery visible with a red rose pattern. Bridge windows smashed, inside bridge relatively intact, bell GONE!. Doors open freely but, sad to say human bones deterred us further. A year later the trophy hunters had had there fill. Wreck, (a tomb) was plundered. Radome cover on sea bed inside gutted for souvenirs as had the bridge, oh and the crockery also gone. Locals tell of the captain knowing the risk too a short route over Shaab to save time in bad weather. So sad 'fellow?' divers have to desecrate the dead. Take away memories leave what is not yours.
I dived the Salem Express, this was with respect outside only, knowing the history it was a very sad dive, I have dived lots of wreaks but this was the only one to bring tears to my eyes underwater.
Can u tell me more about it .....u saw alot due to ur job why this one was the most tragic
....is it because of the many bodies that were trapped there ?
@@ghadaanwar6225 - yes, there’s still unrecovered bodies on her as well as well preserved artifacts, luggage, pushchairs, etc. Along with sunken lifeboats scattered around. It’s also a relatively new wreck at about 30 years, an avoidable accident with massive loss of life is quite sad indeed.
If you check out 9mins onward on this video you can see all the luggage
Try with us in the Baltics - there are shipwrecks in which hundreds of sailors died ...
@@MrMaverick1204
Those Viking long boats wouldnt pass todays safety standards.
@@elmo319Então Como O Navio Virou A Bombordo E As Coisas Caíram Para O Lado E As Bagagens Caíram Em Cima De Várias Pessoas , Então Embaixo Dessas Bagagens Há Corpos Ainda , É Isso Que Vc Quer Dizer ???
I have never ever had such doubts about diving a wreck as when diving the Salem Express a couple of years ago; never cried during a dive before. Felt like trespassing. RIP.
Can u tell me more about it 😓😓
Then don’t do it. Don’t try to make yourself look great by expression sorrow then doing it anyway.
Great video - I dived it last week and I can confirm that there is only 1 rowing boat remaining now...
Excellent video. Absolutely horrible tragedy. I was in the Navy in 1991, and we cruised right by the wreck site several times,
which occurred about 2 months after we exited the Red Sea.
Heard about this from a street interview of a homeless man who lost his father to this tragedy 😔
Such beautiful, dignified music and singing!
crazy it's a Metallica cover right?? i liked them when i was a teenager in the 1980s, but i can't listen to angry headbanging noise nowadays lol. But i agree this version is great!
MS al-Salam Boccaccio in 98 in 2006 is another tragedy in the Red Sea, from nearly 1400 people only 388 were rescued.
The loss of life is tragic, however that is an awesome rendition of Metallica’s song. God bless
It's.not Metallica it's evernesence
@@liisamaarit4607 First song is indeed Evanescence My Immortal, but the referenced song is Gregorian Masters of Chant cover of Metallica's Nothing Else Matters.
Love the music choice.
Did this dive Dec 2023. Unfortunately no Dolphin. Great video, many thanks.
It was an unfortunate and tragic accident. Good photography of a beautiful ship with all the passenger luggage. It sank to a very small depth
E Como O Navio Virou A Bombordo, Embaixo Dessas Bagagens Ainda Há Corpos Não Recuperados ...
Dived this wreck about 13years ago , didn't like it at all especially with the personal debris laying on the sea bed. I remember getting caught up on the wires on my tank as we went through the bridge lucky my buddy managed to get me free not a nice experience!
Excellent video !
Amazing music
😢😢😢😔رحمه الله شهدائنا السالم
thanx for this video... i also was everywhere there!
Next week i dive to Salem. The story about Salem makes very sad...
edepeku yes. but worest story is salam 2000 boat in 2006
@@tarekmohamed8915 Had not heard of that one before; assuming you mean MS al-Salam Boccaccio 98. Thanks for sharing. Also very sad.
Then why do it. Don’t big note yourself n
There are no mcars on the RoRo deck, but plenty of luggage and the davids are still in resting position. So they stored people on the RoRo deck and didn't even attempt an orderly evacuation.
There are cars in there.
the visibility was incredible ! So lucky that day to have clear water
Ok but the orchestra singing nothing else matters rlly caught me off guard
this made me more sad than the titanic I love seeing the leftovers of the past, but seeing strollers and baby shoes from 1991 knowing so many people died was kinda haunting.
Have you heard anything about "Wilhelm Gustlof", "Goija", "Armenia" ... ?
@@MrMaverick1204 shut up, we do not care for that Armenia ship or those euro soldiers in Baltics
E Olha Que Embaixo Dessas Bagagens Ainda Há Corpos Não Recuperados... As Bagagens Viraram Em Cima De Várias Pessoas ...
Wonderful and really interesting. Awesome sounds. Amazing. Well done
I'll just find an article and read up on this. You don't give enough time to read the text in between the next slide.
Backwards read you if does he.
Agree. Far too fast. And silly music as well.
J'ai de suite reconnu l ancien ferry de la société nationale corse méditerranée (SNCM)qu on prenait de Toulon pour partir en Corse pour les vacances d'été dans les années 70, chez la famille!
wonderful job we need another report about another ship i think it's called el salam
Cool!!!
Cmon now I'm not about to stop pause and read all this. Get it together
At one stage ww2 shipwrecks were plundered for their metal mainly because of low no radiation has effected the steel or other metals but didnt stop scrapmetal scavengers from tearing these ships part which evidence contained the remains of sailors
I think you’re mixing a few stories. The main source of low background radiation steel (cast before any nuclear blasts) was the sunken German naval fleet from World War 1, and there were no dead sailors in those ships, they were scuttled…which means sunk deliberately…by the German naval high command to keep the Allies from getting their hands on them. Basically a final act of spite.
I think a few passenger ferries have sank in this area , because of over loading I believe . Plus many being old second hand ferries.
The ship was originally named after a WW2 French Resistance leader.
Did I see it correct and you dived inside? If so was not this rather disrespectful of the dead. When we dived this we stayed on outside.
عبارة السلام 98كان حادثة غرقها مساوي جدا و مولم والضحايا بلغ عددهم 1070نسمه أما الناجين فكانو قليل ،تعرضو للعديد من الكوارث منها البرد و الظلام الذي كان يحيط بهم و الهلع ،كان الحادث مدبر لقتل كل هؤلاء البشر من أجل ضحايا لإرضاء الشيطان ضحايا بشريه بريئه قضيت في هذ الحادث ،وليس السبب من أجل التأمين لكن الحادث فضيع جدا و كان من أجل تقديم قرابين بشريه للشيطان بدليل تبرئة المجرمين ،أنهم أعوان الشيطان من تسسبب في هذا الحادث بالحادث حدث في ايام مباركه للمسلمين ايام العشر من ذي الحجه سنة 1427- 2006 ،الرحمه على أرواح الشهداء الطاهرين الأبرياء.
دى سالم اكسبريس غرقت فى 15 ديسمبر 1991 بسبب اصطدامها بالشعب المرجانية رحم الله من كانوا على متنها
Wahnsinns! Perfect Video
Really good photography 👍👍
What a truly horrific ending for the victims, trapped in a fast flooding, capsizing ferry, unable to escape to safety before the vessel sinks!
What recklessly negligent judgment on the part of the bridge crew to strike a reef, and with such catastrophic force that the vessel sinks within minutes!
The salvage recovery of this wreck would have been one of the easiest to have ever been undertaken due to the remarkably shallow depth at which she lays.
The removal of victims could have been carried out whilst the wreck was out of the water, as happened with Sewol.
I guess that wreck recovery wasn't done at that time unless it was a navigational hazard.
I hope to dive in the depths of the Red Sea and dive near this ship, but unfortunately they have forbidden diving there
I dived it in September 2022.its still open.
I've never seen so many lionfish!
Music in the video is "Nothing else matters", Metallica, dunno why it is listed as "My Immortal" in the description
The song is Nothing Else Matters, by Metallica. Not Evanescence.
My dad go to this boat
IMO don't dive inside a sunken grave site.
Need answer
Is Salem express fully explored or are there other cabins that is still closed?
From what I've heard, the lower decks are said to be closed forever. There are still a lot of corpses in there :(
@@MrMaverick1204 a maritime tomb
@@MrMaverick1204 Here is footage of a dive just a month after the ship sank featuring a body. Out of the 464 people that died only 117 bodies were recovered ua-cam.com/video/TTsnI4FFQ1Q/v-deo.html
My mom and dad where gonna go on ferry 98 but they thankfully decided not to but they didn’t know this was a choice that saved there life if not they would have been skeletons and I would had never been a thing they went on the ferry 98 before in 2005 1 year before the ship wreck the exact same one.......wow,thank god then they went by a plane from that day they never stepped foot in a ship or boat ever again
Its not for hussin salm its for another owner
Called salem abdelrazek salem
Came for the video... left 'cause of that music. Beepy intro was "in your face" too
Amazing video, excellent work. Truly awful music.
NATHAN
How deep is the wreck？Thanks！
The bottom was about 40m
is the atari still there
If you ask me the penny pinching owners that forego maintenance for profit and the captains that F-up causing these tragedies and are the first off, should all have cinderblocks tied to their feet and be thrown in at the wreck site. But that's just me.
Another UA-camr that doesn’t know when not to use music, or when not to have it too high.
I would of taken a skull as a souvenir
Ich war 1998 da und fand den Umgang mit dem Wrack Respekt los das tauchen am Wrack ok aber in das Wrack nein 👎
Auch das berühren ist einfach ekelhaft!
You know, that one does not penetrate a shipwreck if people lost their lives....
There was lose of life on the Thistlegorm and thousands of divers swim through the holds
Tell James Cameron that, the D bag dived on titanic twice before he made that crappy, inaccurate movie and even sent ROV’s inside the wreck.
Nothing is welded shut, the ship is loaded with treasures. Get some!
This is the dumest render of Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters". This isn't a "the sky opens up as Angelic being descend" type of music. Who ever the group that is plying their own version has really made it bad. You should had choose something else. Anyway, the Dive part of the vid is good.
Good video, but spoiled by the hurendous music
do you have no respect!!!
Schrotthaufen