In August 1984 the Kormoran, built in 1963 in the Rostock shipyards (Germany), was coming from Aqaba with a cargo of phosphate when an error in navigation caused it to hit the reef bordering the island of Tiran (Laguna Reef). The impact was tremendous and the vessel, which at the time had been renamed Zingara and was part of the fleet of an Italian shipping company, the Compagnia Montemare di Navigazione, lost almost all of its bow, two large cracks opened on its left side and the superstructure was irreparably damaged. read more »