Boeing 747 and Airbus A330 aircraft from diving into the sea
In the Persian Gulf, a Boeing 747 was sunk as a future attraction for divers on the sea floor. A few days later, an Airbus A330 took in Turkey in the same second career.
For flow researchers the air and water have in common is that both are called fluids. Nevertheless, aircraft are definitely in the air and nothing into the water. Except, if you were to ask the diving company Dive Bahrain. It sank in the Persian Gulf, now a Boeing 747. The purpose of alienated Jumbo Jet is on ocean floor as an artificial coral reef and is the centre of a large planned water Park.
Most recently, the Boeing 747 was under the registration TF-AAA Air Atlanta Icelandic in use. She began her service with British Airways in the early ' 80s, and flew then for Malaysia Airlines. According to Bahrain's Ministry of tourism, it is the longest aircraft ever to be used as an artificial coral reef. Last Week (12. June) was towed to the Boeing 747 now by ship in the Persian Gulf and lowered.
Turkish Pipeline project promotes the sea floor-plane
First of all, the plane had to be cleaned time - consuming, so that Oil and fuel residues that contaminate the sea floor. Now, divers began the Boeing 747 hedge and for the planned opening next August to prepare. Previously, this was announced last spring.
Only two days later, was released in Turkey, also a plane from the sea floor down. A disused Airbus A330 was sunk in the Aegean sea, approximately around 1850 meters in front of the Peninsula of Gelibolu, in a depth of 30 metres, reported the newspaper The Telegraph. The Turkish government hopes that just like the tourism authority of Bahrain, the sunken plane attracts divers from all over the world. The implementation of the Turkish program was also funded with donations from the TRANS-Anatolian Pipeline project Tanap.
A300 and DC-3 showed up
It is not the first Time that aircraft will be converted to a coral reef. So in 2016, an Airbus A300, was sunk in the vicinity of the Turkish town of Kusadasi in the Aegean coast, in the USA, there was a 727 that had once been in a hurricane damage is located, since 1993, off the coast of Miami. Prior to the Turkish port town of Kaş is a significantly more exotic aircraft in a foreign environment since 2014. There is a classic car from the Second world war, bored with a Douglas DC-3 on the sea floor.
You can see in the above picture gallery photos of the sunken Boeing 747 in front of Bahrain as well as a Video of the Turkish underwater-Airbus-A330.