Another one for the awesomeness list. Shab Rumi, or more properly Sha'ab Rumi is a reef used by Jacques Cousteau back in 1963 as an underwater habitat for studying sea life. His team built an entire underwater complex with submarine garage, tool shed and a futuristic hollow sea urchin looking living space and lab. The remains are all still here and we found them on our first dive. Sitting precariously on the edge of and abyssal ledge looking like a space craft preparing to launch. It sits on a tri-pod structure and still holds air. We even swam up inside and had an underwater conversation in a habitat that is older than me!


Just below the habitat is a stainless steel head stone marking the underwater grave of Alfred Hennebohl who died while diving with Jacques. He was 50 years old. Very interesting place and we have it all to ourselves and more dive tomorrow. Wind is blow 30 knots at the moment, but we have a nice sheltered mooring, so no worries.






From inside the Urchin.