An investigation into a Phoenician ship wreck was deemed "a threat to the national security of Egypt" Here's the transcript of a YouTube video on the event:
>[Robert D. Ballard] Last time we were here which was in 1999, Israel said we were off their coast and they came out with a gunboat, and that's pretty convincing, and they also sent observers but they said but you're beyond our territorial waters. Therefore, you don't have to ask permission here beyond our territorial claims, but then the law changed and the borders shifted and it became Egyptian waters. >[Narrator] Ballard was awaiting final permission from the Egyptians, when elusive Phoenicians slipped away again
>[Robert D. Ballard] All of the sudden we get a letter from our State Department in Cairo, saying that the Egyptian military deems our mission a threat to the national security of Egypt, wow, that's amazing.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8AYMM29NVdA
It is very likely that Israel has pressured Egypt to change the borders so that the connection between Israel and the Phoenician ship wreck would be less obvious.
Now the question is, why are Egypt and Israel so protective of a Phoenician ship wreck?
>>2010 Well the first Britons were Phoenicians, probably to cover up our history, not sure. A people that knows their own history is more dangerous than those that do not.
An investigation into a Phoenician ship wreck was deemed "a threat to the national security of Egypt"
Here's the transcript of a YouTube video on the event:
>[Robert D. Ballard] Last time we were here which was in 1999, Israel said we were off their coast and they came out with a gunboat, and that's pretty convincing, and they also sent observers but they said but you're beyond our territorial waters. Therefore, you don't have to ask permission here beyond our territorial claims, but then the law changed and the borders shifted and it became Egyptian waters.
>[Narrator] Ballard was awaiting final permission from the Egyptians, when elusive Phoenicians slipped away again
>[Robert D. Ballard] All of the sudden we get a letter from our State Department in Cairo, saying that the Egyptian military deems our mission a threat to the national security of Egypt, wow, that's amazing.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8AYMM29NVdA
It is very likely that Israel has pressured Egypt to change the borders so that the connection between Israel and the Phoenician ship wreck would be less obvious.
Now the question is, why are Egypt and Israel so protective of a Phoenician ship wreck?