{"id":50687,"date":"2023-03-04T23:20:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T22:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=50687"},"modified":"2026-03-04T00:33:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:33:01","slug":"aqaba-a-peculiar-museum-where-you-can-see-two-large-planes-at-the-bottom-of-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/03\/04\/aqaba-a-peculiar-museum-where-you-can-see-two-large-planes-at-the-bottom-of-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Aqaba: a peculiar museum where you can see two large planes at the bottom of the sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have already seen aeronautical museums here on other occasions, but one of the strangest and most atypical can be visited on the Jordanian coast.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/01\/14\/aqaba-the-strange-place-where-you-can-see-tanks-cannons-and-helicopters-underwater\/\">Aqaba: the strange place where you can see tanks, cannons and helicopters underwater<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/27\/kwajalein-a-huge-graveyard-with-about-160-world-war-ii-aircraft-at-the-bottom-of-the-sea\/\">Kwajalein: a huge graveyard with about 160 World War II aircraft at the bottom of the sea<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Of course, if you go to this museum you will need diving equipment, since it is at the bottom of the Red Sea. As you will remember, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/01\/14\/aqaba-the-strange-place-where-you-can-see-tanks-cannons-and-helicopters-underwater\/\">we already talked about this curious place here<\/a>, which includes tanks, cannons and helicopters. In recent years, new neighbors have arrived at this site. In this video we can see the first of them, <strong>a Lockheed L-1011-385-3 Tristar 500 three-engine commercial plane<\/strong>, the MSN 1248. The plane belonged to the Royal Jordanian airline, bearing the registration JY- AGJ, and was later operated by the Portuguese airline Luzair, with registration CS-TMP. In late January, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@agscuba\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Grundy<\/a><strong> posted this video of the plane:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Diving the wreck of a Lockheed Tristar airplane, artificial reef, Aqaba - Jordan @agscuba\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v2sldhQaoBc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>This Tristar was sunk at that location on August 26, 2019<\/strong>. The operation to sink it was certainly spectacular. You can see it in this video from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@svetronjenja\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Water Resistant Team<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sinking of Lockheed TriStar in Jordan\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8xAedYnUdb8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>En Aqaba tambi\u00e9n fue sumergido un Lockheed C-130 Hercules <\/strong>que perteneci\u00f3 a la Real Fuerza A\u00e9rea de Jordania. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@agscuba\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Grundy<\/a> tambi\u00e9n ha buceado por este avi\u00f3n:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Diving the Lockheed C-130 Hercules and tank, in Aqaba, Jordan @agscuba\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SOb806WgFJM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>This C-130 was submerged on November 16, 2017.<\/strong> You can see here a video from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TecdiveTV\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AB TV<\/a> showing how it was done:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dive wreck C 130 Hercules  in Aqaba, Jordan\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aC1HtgrDoEs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see here some screenshots from Andrew Grundy's videos. We start with this <strong>M-42 Duster anti-aircraft artillery vehicle that belonged to the Jordanian Army<\/strong> and which today rests at the bottom of the sea, near the C-130.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52726008076_7e4b19d268_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The mid-engine nozzle of the Tristar.<\/strong> This aircraft, like its rival the DC-10, had three engines, one of which was located at the bottom of the drift. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoevolution.com\/news\/the-last-airworthy-lockheed-tristar-airliner-spends-its-days-launching-satellites-to-orbit-210947.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Today there is only one airworthy Tristar left.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52726264394_3149922569_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The cabin of the Tristar.<\/strong> The fish and starfish have become the new owners of the plane.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52726421675_06a855888e_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The cabin of the Hercules.<\/strong> The plane was submerged without its four engines.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52726264619_71e11cdf7a_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The port landing gear of the Hercules.<\/strong> This plane has deteriorated a lot over the years, due to the storms that have hit Aqaba.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52726488323_81172b500f_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have already seen aeronautical museums here on other occasions, but one of the strangest and most atypical can be visited on the Jordanian coast.<\/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":[18239,12304,6556,18656,18657],"class_list":["post-50687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-seas-and-coasts","tag-aqaba-underwater-museum","tag-jordan","tag-lockheed-c-130-hercules","tag-lockheed-l-1011-tristar","tag-m-42-duster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50687"}],"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=50687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}