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Grounding and Flooding of the New Dream

Operator
Vessel
Date
Location
Red Sea, en route to Marsa Alam, Egypt
Fatalities
0

According to Divernet, the liveaboard New Dream (formerly Orion), operated by Hurghada-based Mirage Marine Fleet, struck a coral reef at around 1am on 7 June 2023 while travelling by night toward Marsa Alam to get a diver with suspected decompression illness to port, still three hours out. The hull cracked and the vessel flooded to upper-deck level. Twenty-six Polish divers plus eight crew and two guides took to two tenders and waited around four hours before being spotted and rescued by another liveaboard, Enjoy, at first light. No serious injuries were reported, including for the diver with suspected decompression illness.

Conditions that day

Wind
3 to 11 kn
Strongest gust
18 kn
Hour by hour (24 of 24 hours, UTC)
UTCWindGustFrom
00:006 kn8 kn250°
01:006 kn8 kn250°
02:006 kn7 kn240°
03:005 kn7 kn250°
04:004 kn7 knW
05:004 kn9 knNW
06:006 kn12 knN
07:007 kn12 kn10°
08:008 kn15 kn20°
09:0010 kn17 kn20°
10:0011 kn18 kn30°
11:0010 kn17 knNE
12:009 kn16 knNE
13:007 kn14 kn60°
14:006 kn12 kn70°
15:004 kn9 kn100°
16:003 kn5 knSE
17:003 kn4 kn160°
18:003 kn3 knS
19:003 kn4 kn200°
20:003 kn3 kn210°
21:003 kn3 kn210°
22:003 kn3 knS
23:003 kn3 knS

ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo, sampled 17 km from the recorded position. Modelled conditions across the whole day, not an observation at the vessel: a grid this coarse averages away the localised squall or wave a report may describe. Not a statement of cause.

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Sources

Divernet
Hurricane divers died – & another liveaboard incident·12 June 2023
taucher.net (Diveinside News)
M/Y New Dream: Liveaboard sunk in the Red Sea·8 June 2023