Lady Christine

The Lady Christine was doing survey work and laying a communications cable when she ran aground on the northwest of Gaafaru Falhu, at 11 p.m. on 16/04/1974. A local tugboat was unable to pull her off the reef in rough seas, and another was called from Singapore. Local workers rescued the valuables and, in the end, the ship was abandoned. Part of the bow is still visible even at high tide, and the holes made by the blasting in the reef are still visible to divers. The wreck and the pitted reef shelter surgeonfish, fusiliers, parrotfish, moray eels, pufferfish and groupers, and it is common to see hawksbill and green turtles, eagle rays, barracuda and stingrays in the same dive, as well as nurse sharks in the caves. In the Gaafaru region, January to May is the recommended time to dive the wrecks and reefs.