Where God Parted the Red Sea: Epilogue

What We Can Do Now:  A Seventy Meter Dive

In April, 1998, I presented this document to Dr. Rudolph Cohen, Israel's deputy director of archaeology, at the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem, Israel.  He and his assistant were very interested and made copies of the document.  Dr. Cohen, however, claimed that Israel could do nothing about it.  He said that it is up to Egypt to do something.  I met with Ms. Ihssan Wali, Egypt's cultural attache, at the Embassy of Egypt, Washington, D.C., but as of yet Egypt has made no decision to investigate the underwater pathway across the Red Sea to search for the remains of the Egyptian army.

Based on the passages below, the armies of Egypt sunk.

The underwater pathway across the Red Sea is seventy meters below the surface.  According to Dr. Cohen, the bodies of the Egyptians and their horses would have been completely destroyed by coral.  According to Dr. Cohen's assistant, however, there is insufficient oxygen at seventy meters to have oxidized and destroyed the metal weapons of the Egyptian army.  Therefore, there should still be metal weaponry intact along the underwater pathway.  Additionally, I hypothesize that some of the metal would have been further protected by coral exoskeletons that encased the metal.

Let us look at the biblical data so that we can determine the best place to dive along the underwater land-bridge in search of Egyptian weapons.  The passage below says that the Lord drove the sea back all night with a strong east wind.

Probably the strongest east winds blew south of the crossing site, otherwise the Israelites would have had a hard time moving across the sea into such a powerful headwind.
 

The east wind may have blown a surge of Red Sea water westward, across the main body of the Red Sea.  This would have created a depression in the Red Sea south of the crossing site.
 

Water from the Gulf of Aqaba would then have flowed toward the depression, partially draining the Gulf of Aqaba.
 

Water from the Gulf of Aqaba would have continued draining until the land bridge at the Strait of Tiran became exposed (recall from part 9 that the rift in the land bridge at Enterprise Passage did not exist at the time of the Exodus).
 

When God calmed the wind, the water of the Red Sea returned to its place, flowing in a huge surge from west to east, and then northeast into the Gulf of Aqaba.
 

The Bible states that the Egyptians were fleeing toward the sea when it covered them.

If the Egyptians were fleeing toward the surge of water, the Egyptians had stopped pursuing the Israelites in a northeasterly direction, and had turned back.  They were retreating in a southwesterly direction along the land bridge toward the Sinai Peninsula when the surge of water crashed into them, head-on.  They sunk, probably because of their armor

The four coral reefs spanning the Strait of Tiran probably grew over the decomposing bodies of the Egyptian soldiers.  However, to move faster many Egyptian soldiers may have dropped swords, spears, and shields during their retreat.  If so, then many artifacts may lie on the underwater pathway northeast of each of the four coral reefs.  Perhaps these artifacts could be recovered inexpensively through a seventy-meter SCUBA dive with metal detectors.
 


Above, the area just north of the Woodhouse Reef is depicted as a good place to dive in search of weapons.2  The coordinates of the northern tip of the Woodhouse Reef are 28 degrees, 00.43 minutes north longitude and 34 degrees, 28.15 minutes east latitude from Greenwich.  I do not recommend attempting this dive without a GPS to help bring you to the exact coordinates above; I overheard several experienced divers in May, 1998, at the Camel Dive Club in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, discussing that they were unable to find their dive location on their dive that day.  They said they wished they had had a GPS with them.  Also, I do not recommend doing this dive without special deep-diving equipment and special permission from Egypt to descend below 30 meters.

On an interesting side note, notice below the egg-shape of the Jackson reef.3  This shape may have been caused by the rear ranks of the 'Jackson division' overtaking its front ranks during the retreat.  Also, notice below that the 'Jackson division' appears to have nearly overtaken the 'Woodhouse division'.  It also appears that the 'Jackson division' made an attempt to pass the 'Woodhouse division' to the left.
 

I spoke with instructors and divers at two dive clubs near the Strait of Tiran in the Sinai Peninsula.  The clubs were the Camel Dive Club and the Red Sea Diving College, both at Na'ama Bay, north of Sharm al Sheikh, the southernmost city in the Sinai Peninsula.  I learned that Egypt allows recreational dives to a depth of thirty meters in the Strait of Tiran.  Deeper dives require special permission.  I believe we can get this permission if we organize an expedition to search for the remains of the Egyptian army.

If you know someone qualified to dive seventy meters and interested in locating these ancient artifacts, please contact me at truthresearch@hotmail.com
 

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1  NASB:  New American Standard Version

2  Bathometric map from:  Red Sea Plans in the Gulf of Aqaba: Strait of Tiran.  Taunton, Somerset, U.K.: Hydrographic Office; Published under the Superintendence of Rear Admiral J.A.L. Myres, C.B., FRICS, Hydrographer of The Navy, Crown, 1993, British Admiralty Chart #801.

3  Bathometric map from:  Red Sea Plans in the Gulf of Aqaba: Strait of Tiran.  Taunton, Somerset, U.K.: Hydrographic Office; Published under the Superintendence of Rear Admiral J.A.L. Myres, C.B., FRICS, Hydrographer of The Navy, Crown, 1993, British Admiralty Chart #801.

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