MV Dara
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About this site
The MV Dara was a British India Steam Navigation Company passenger and cargo liner that suffered an explosion in April 1961 while anchored off the coast near Dubai, in what became one of the worst maritime disasters in the Gulf during that era, with heavy loss of life. The wreck eventually sank and now lies broken on the seabed off the Sharjah/Dubai coastline in the Persian Gulf. Visibility in the Gulf here tends to be limited. Divers visiting the site are drawn mainly by its history and the scale of the broken structure rather than by reef life, and much of the hull is now encrusted and colonized by fish typical of Gulf wrecks.
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Green Sea TurtleChelonia mydasReported here · unconfirmed
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