{"id":50046,"date":"2023-01-14T03:09:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T02:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=50046"},"modified":"2025-01-14T00:11:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T23:11:47","slug":"aqaba-the-strange-place-where-you-can-see-tanks-cannons-and-helicopters-underwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/01\/14\/aqaba-the-strange-place-where-you-can-see-tanks-cannons-and-helicopters-underwater\/","title":{"rendered":"Aqaba: the strange place where you can see tanks, cannons and helicopters underwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you like diving and you ever travel to Jordan and decide to dive into the waters of the Red Sea, you may find unusual things on the seabed.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/11\/30\/uss-lexington-un-enorme-portaaviones-de-la-segunda-guerra-mundial-convertido-en-museo\/\">USS Lexington: un enorme portaaviones de la Segunda Guerra Mundial convertido en museo<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/11\/18\/un-museo-aeronautico-en-alemania-que-expone-un-antiguo-avion-militar-espanol\/\">Un museo aeron\u00e1utico en Alemania que expone un antiguo avi\u00f3n militar espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>On your dive you may see British-made <strong>Chieftain main battle tanks<\/strong> (called Khalid in Jordan) like the ones in these images:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50836031042_8bf19c0744_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50835204943_b1a2ca7617_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Ratel infantry fighting vehicle<\/strong> made in South Africa:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50835937046_ebbc6c4f0c_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Ferret armored car<\/strong> of British origin:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50836015802_87c60e7216_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A World War II American M-1 155mm Long Tom Howitzer <\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50835936966_8378188052_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And even <strong>a Bell AH-1 Huey Cobra attack helicopter<\/strong>, also of American origin:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50835219848_9286c8ba17_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although it seems that Atlantis is preparing for war, it is not. <strong>This is an original underwater museum inaugurated by Jordan in mid-2019 and includes material from its army<\/strong>, at a depth of between 15 and 28 meters below the surface of the sea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This military material was deliberately submerged by the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority<\/strong> to create a new type of museum that would offer a different experience to diving enthusiasts. You can see <strong> here a video that shows some of his pieces:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UeiJZcyO44Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you want to see tanks but don't want to get wet, remember that in Amman, the Jordanian capital, you also have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/09\/21\/el-ultimo-sitio-en-el-que-esperarias-encontrar-un-antiguo-carro-de-combate-amx-30-espanol\/\">the Royal Tank Museum of Jordan, where they show an AMX-30 main battle tank that belonged to the Army Spanish<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you like diving and you ever travel to Jordan and decide to dive into the waters of the Red Sea, you may find unusual things on the seabed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,16884],"tags":[18239,14646,14647,12304,14648,14645],"class_list":["post-50046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-seas-and-coasts","tag-aqaba-underwater-museum","tag-chieftain","tag-ferret","tag-jordan","tag-long-tom-m-1","tag-ratel-ifv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}