Uncovering of a British ship wrecked south of Agadir

A team consisting of divers and a researcher specialising in underwater archaeology managed, on Sunday, to uncover the wreck of an English steamship that reportedly sank in the summer of 1918 off the beach of Sidi Toual, located 15 km south of Agadir, in the commune of Sidi Bibi (Chtouka Ait Baha province). Preliminary data from a dive, which continued this weekend, reveal the existence of shipwrecks scattered over an area of approximately 700 m2, declared to MAP Azeddine Karra, a specialist at the Ministry of Culture in underwater research and regional director of the same department in Marrakech. He assured that the inspection of the site and the remains, located nearly 500 m from the mainland and between 6 and 10 metres deep, allowed for the localisation of a number of rusted components of the ship, including doors, various engine parts, large iron bars, and pieces consti…