Exploration Of The Red Sea
Here we have developed endoscopic techniques to explore red sea framework crevices up to 4 m into the carbonate rock revealing a large internal surface 2 5 7 4 m2 per projected m2 reef.
Exploration of the red sea. A new shipwreck for advanced technical divers in the red sea published 24 january 2018. This third wadi the east west one leads just a few miles westward to the sea. He said that saudi aramco plans to conduct feasibility studies of the project and subject to the results of that study could intensify exploration in the area over the next two years.
Work was halted in 2015 because of the cost of exploration and the de clining price of oil. The earliest known exploration of the red sea was conducted by ancient egyptians as they attempted to establish commercial routes to punt one such expedition took place around 2500 bce and another around 1500 bce by hatshepsut both involved long voyages down the red sea. Saudi state news agency spa announced that large quantities of gas have been discovered in the red sea quoting the nation s energy minister khalid al falih.
For centuries the famous biblical account of the red sea crossing was dismissed by most scholars and historians as more symbolic than historical. It extends southward from the proliferous gulf of suez rift where outcrops and subsurface data show that the elements of the petroleum system should also extend to the south. Confusion over the red sea crossing stems from a wrong location for mt sinai.
But since the exploration of this area we now know why. Both involved long voyages down the red sea. One such expedition took place around 2500 bc and another around 1500 bc by hatshepsut.
A seismic study in 2009 indicated the presence of natural gas in the red sea area. A red sea explorers dive team composed of faisal khalaf and michel salsmans has been the first to dive on a newly located wreck in the northern red sea. The success achieved by the john murray expedition to the indian ocean 1933 4 in the egyptian research ship mabahiss aroused the interest of egypt in oceanographic exploration.
The biblical book of exodus tells the account of the israelites crossing of a body of water which the hebrew text. In 2013 saudi state owned aramco discovered three oil and two gas fields in the red sea region after using a deep water rig. From the sea there branches off another wadi and then they resumed their travel they would have followed this.
The earliest known exploration of the red sea was conducted by ancient egyptians as they attempted to establish commercial routes to punt.