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Julie Delahaye

Diver swims through sunken Boeing 747 exploring the eerie cabin and cockpit

A sunken Boeing 747 is set to become a popular dive site, with some divers already swimming through the underwater aircraft.

A new video of this underwater adventure shows one diver swimming through the eerie cabin and cockpit where the only passengers are the fish and jellyfish residing nearby.

The 70m-long airplane has actually been submerged underwater on purpose, as part of a new underwater theme park Dive Bahrain, which will be located approximately 30 kilometres north of Amwaj in Bahrain.

Divers will be able to explore the empty cabin and cockpit which have been stripped bare, in the hopes that it will become a larger marine habitat where visitors can get up close to all hosts of sea creatures and plants.

Already in the video you can spot a few shoals of fish approaching the aircraft, no doubt curious about the addition.

Divers have explored the new site (Dive Bahrain)

To get the plane ready, the Boeing 747 was stripped bare leaving just the shell of its cabin, although it was given a new 'Dive Bahrain' livery.

The aircraft was then towed across ocean waters to its new home before being submerged under the waters to its permanent site.

Inside the cockpit (Dive Bahrain)

The new attraction won't just have the Boeing 747 to offer guests.

In fact, the park will boast 100,000 sq m of activities and trails for divers, ranging from colourful artificial reefs to underwater sculptures.

The plane has been fully submerged (Dive Bahrain)

It's hoped that as well as tourists, marine biologists and researchers from around the world will come to the dive site.

It's currently set to open later this summer although no exact date has been confirmed at the time of writing.

The cabin has been stripped bare (Dive Bahrain)

You can find out more on the Bahrain Tourism and Exhibitions Authority's Instagram page as well as the Dive Bahrain Instagram page .

You can also check out the latest FCO travel advice for Bahrain here .

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