The Yolanda, or Jolanda as it is actually called, was a Cypriot cargo ship with a length of 72 meters that was heading from Piraeus to Aqaba when it suffered the accident that would eventually take its remains to a depth of over 150 meters.
The Yolanda was loaded with sinks, toilets, bathtubs, a BMW 320 (apparently belonging to the captain), aluminum sheets, plastic sheets, and containers of different products when, on April 1, 1981, during a strong storm, it got stranded south of the tip of the Ras Mohammed peninsula, Red Sea.
After four days stranded, it rolled onto its port side, flooding the bow and lifting the stern. The wreck remained in that position for four years until in 1985, the moorings securing it broke, and the ship slid to the bottom of the reef, leaving behind some of the cargo it was carrying.
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Today, the Yolanda lends its name to a beautiful reef where we can dive among those remains.
Diving at Yolanda Reef, where we can appreciate the scattered remains of the cargo on the reef
A group of expert divers managed to discover the wreck resting between 145 and 200 meters deep. Obviously, a spectacle that only a few divers will ever see... or at least for now. What many divers refer to as "the remains of the Yolanda" is only part of the cargo left on the reef, between 10 and 30 meters deep.
Where is the Yolanda wreck located?
