Sue Surkes is The Times of Israel's environment reporter. The Fleur de Passion research ship before it left Eilat in southern Israel for Port Sudan, July 19, 2021. ((Marcos Schonholz) A planned survey of Red Sea corals by an international team of scientists will need to be postponed until next year after the much-heralded expedition ran aground just a day after setting sail from Eilat last week, one of the scientists on board said Sunday. The Fleur de Passion, a former Nazi ship re-outfitted to carry the scientific expedition, is still stuck on a reef in the Straits of Tiran with untold damage to it, and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of scientific equipment could be in danger, Prof. Maoz Fine, one of six scientists aboard the ship, told The Times of Israel.