The wreck is rapidly disintegrating due to natural rusting. The dive boats that rely on the wreck for their livelihood are also tearing the wreck apart by mooring the boats to weak parts of the wreck, leading to parts of the wreck collapsing. For this reason, in December 2007 the non-governmental Hurghada Environmental Protection and Conservation Association (HEPCA) installed 32 permanent mooring buoys and drilled holes in the wreck to allow trapped air to escape. During this work, the vessel was closed off to recreational diving. However, by 2009 none of these moorings remained as the blocks themselves were too light resulting in ships dragging them, and the lines connecting the moorings to the wreck were too long (meaning with the strong currents in the area, people would find it impossible to transfer from the mooring to the actual wreck). All boats now moor directly to the wreck again.