North of the city of Hurghada is located the branch of the Institute of Marine Sciences in Hurghada, which is affiliated with the National Institute of Marine Sciences, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.
Among those mummifications, the huge manta fish, which is called devil fish Or the carbag fish relative to its tail that resembles the carbag. This fish has a strange story with Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer. Learn about the details of the story in the following information:
– There is a stuffed manta fish at the entrance to the doors of the Marine Science Museum in Hurghada, which is called the manta fish
– In 1954, Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer was on a cruise in the Red Sea, and the manta fish appeared flying over the surface of the water, and it is one of the fish that has the ability to fly for few distances.
Field Marshal Abdel Hakim shot her with 7 bullets from his personal weapon.
– The seven bullets were carried out in the belly of the fish and during the embalming process. After the completion, the seven bullets were very visible and are still visible until now even after the mummification and the passage of more than 60 years on them
A fish is called a manta. It is called a fish manta ray Or a giant sea demon
The most dangerous thing about it is its tail, which is called Umm Karabaj because its tail resembles the Karabaj, and that fish has the largest fish brain in the world.
It feeds on small marine creatures, and there are two types of manta fish, the coral manta fish, and the giant surrounding manta fish, to which the largest manta fish belong.
It was hunted by Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer
It was embalmed and placed at the Institute of Marine Sciences in Hurghada
Giant manta fish at the Museum of Oceanography
It was named after the devil and crabfish