Ahi Kidon Missile BoatA unique diving resort and a must for all divers wherever they may be! This location serves as an underwater monument for all the soldiers who fell in the battle of Ansaria, Lebanon. On the front deck, twelve school chairs were installed in a semicircle shape, to which signs were attached to indicate the names of the fallen. This year, the original chairs were replaced with stainless steel chairs and the names were engraved into the seats. A commemoration plaque was placed at the base of the semicircle.
Ahi Kidon was one of 12 Cherbourg boats, a sibling to Ahi Mivtach boat, stationed at the Naval Museum on the western outskirts of Haifa. Tow other Cherbourg boats are the Ahi Miznak, which was sunk west of the Big Raft in Haifa, and Ahi Sufa, the famous missile boat in Eilat.
The maximum depth in the location reaches roughly 29 meters, and the boat "sits" in the heart of what seems to look like "a promenade, if u will, a kind of a road splitting the reef into two sections."
Opposite the diving location, at Shavei Zion Beach, is the land based monument attributed to the fallen.
You may arrive at this diving location through the Putzker Diving Club in Naharia. Telephone 9511503
