Jackfish Callejón

Jackfish Callejón, un arrecife protegido perfecto para el buceo en deriva, cuevas y fotografía submarina - las escuelas de glassfish que se esconden en cuevas múltiples, jackfish, triggerfish y trevallies en verano, mantas en invierno, stingrays y tiburones de punta blanca son espectaculares.

Naufragio de los SS Thistlegorm

SS Thistlegorm, uno de los naufragios más famosos del mundo, zarpó en su último viaje el 2 de junio de 1941, destinado a Alejandría, Egipto. La carga del buque incluía: camiones Bedford, vehículos blindados Universal Carrier, motocicletas Norton 16H y BSA, armas Bren, cajas de munición y 3000 fusiles, equipo de radio, botas Wellington, partes de aviones, vagones ferroviarios y dos LMS Stanier clase 8F locomotoras y el cargamento para las fuerzas aliadas en Egipto. El buque fue golpeado por un bombardero alemán y se hundió. El Thistlegorm fue descubierto en 1956 por Jacques Cousteau. La parte de popa del naufragio está casi horizontal hasta el fondo del mar; el resto del naufragio está casi en posición vertical. Dentro de los restos, la mayor parte de su carga se puede ver. La penetración es posible alrededor del puente y área de la explosión. El apoyo grande todavía está en posición y las armas en la popa están en condiciones excelentes. La artillería cubre el área de la explosión. La vida marina alrededor del pecio es impresionante y rica.

Naufragio Dunraven

Shaab Abu Nuhas

This great reef, also known as the "ships graveyard", streches two miles to the north of Shedwan Island at the mouth of the Strait of Gobal. Abu Nuhas is a wreck divers dream come true boasting  seven sunken ships of different eras resting close to each other and within comfortable diving depths of 30 metres or less. On the sheltered south side of the reef there are two beautiful Ergs known as Yellow Fish Reef which offer an excellent night dive.

Giannis D shipwreck

The Giannis D, called by uw photographers "the most photogenec wreck", was built in 1969 by a Japanese shipping company Kuryshima, hit the reef of Abu Nuhas in1983 and slowly sank over six weeks, lying now at a maximum depth of 28 metres. The wreck is broken up in the centre, but the bow and stern remain intact. At the stern on the sea floor you can penetrate and travel up towards the top of the wreck to a pocket of trapped air. Many wildlife has made this wreck their home, where you can find incredible schools of thousands of glassfish occupying the bridge, batfish, lionfish hovering over the wreckage, stonefish, emperor angelfish, wrasses, moray eels, imposing giant parrotfish groups and many antihas. Occasionally bottlenose dolphins appear in the area which gives this wreck a unique aura.

Kimon M shipwreck

Rosalie Moller shipwreck

Straits of Tiran island

The Straits of Tiran with its famouse reefs - Gordon, Jackson, Laguna, Thomas and Woodhouse is one of the most spectacular and impressive dive sites in the Red Sea with mild to strong currents. A magnificent canyon, shipwrecks, numerous caves, full-fledged coral gardens, oceanic fish, dolphins, turtles, groupers, tunas, barracudas and white tip sharks will accompany your dive here.

Yolanda and Shark Reef

Yolanda and Shark Reef, two pinnacles originating from a single one which rises almost vertically from the depth of 800 metres, is an amazing dive-site of the Ras Mohamed National Marine Park where all the beauty of the underwater world sparkle in millions of colours: turquoise crystal-clear waters, coral drop-off, coral gardens sparking red with Anthias, thousands of schooling barracuda, tuna, jackfish, batfish, all kinds of stingrays, giant morays, hammerheads, reef sharks, turtles, dolphins. Yolanda pinnacle has been named after the Cyprian freighter which hit the reef and sank in 1980; its cargo still lies on the western side of the reef. 

Ras Mohamed National Marine Park

The Marine Park spans an area of 345 km² over the sea. Untouched reefs located 50-100cm below the sea surface are home to more than 220 species of corals, 1000 species of fish, 40 species of star fish, 25 species of sea urchins, more than a 100 species of mollusc and 150 species of crustaceans. Ras Mohamed called a "God's Garden" is a treasure of Egypt protected by law.

Alternatives

Small Crack (Small Passage)

The site is formed by two ergs with a small gap between them that is filled and emptied by the tide creating good currents to drift on. The dive is very pretty, with plenty of soft corals, inhabited with octopuses and pelagics.

Eel Garden

Eel Garden is a nicely sheltered sandy plateau inhabited by Garden Eels. It's situated near Sharks Observatory reef in Ras Mohamed National Marine Park. In the central part of the plateau there is an impressive cave streaming with the sandflow. 

Shark Observatory

The high steep cliff with chimney shaped walls scattered with soft corals, anemones and sea fans, going down below the sea surface into the blue abyss hosts schools of glassfish and hatchetfish, jacks, trevallies and groupers. Predator fish and sharks are often guests here at this reef.

Shag Rock

Shag Rock, a large rounded reef, offers perfect drift diving along its sloping walls with a wide range of hard and beautiful soft corals as well as observing schooling yellow goat fish, sweetlips fish, pelagics, turtles and grey reef sharks. In the northern part of the reef just below the surface the 80m Kingston wreck found eternal peace in 1881. 

Anemone City

Shaab Mahmoud

Sha'ab Mahmoud, a small reef partially rising up over the water surface, is marked by a light-house. Table corals, turtles, shoals of sweetlips and double-bar brims make this reef interesting to dive. The Dunraven ship sank here in 1876 and is a famous wreck to visit. 

Ras Abu Galum

Blue Hole

Canyon

Canyon reef is a very famous huge, narrow cleft in the bottom of the Red Sea opening at 16m as a scenic grotto-fishbowl full of morays, octopuses, groupers, napoleons, glassfish. The canyon goes down to the depth of 54 meters with two exits at 18m and at 52m. First exit is forming a beautiful gazebo and leading to a luxury coral garden home to a diverse marine life. Techno-divers make it to the maximum depth and exit at 52m outside the canyon and go down along the wall to 75 meters to the Neptune's Grotto.

Bells

The Bells, a stunning dive-site of amazing beauty which is just 100 metres north of the Blue Hole is a natural open chimney of 30 metres opening on a drop off at 48m. The beautiful reef covered with hanging corals inhabited with many kinds of fish offers to recreational divers to make it along the chimney to a depth of 26 metres and pass through a natural arch to the blue and further to the south until the Blue Hole saddle entry at 15m. 

Gabr El Bint

Gabr El Bint is one of the most spectacular pristine dive sites in south Sinai with its right dark area famous for the steep drop off reaching a depth of 110 metres with many crevices, sandy hangings and beautiful corals and the left side, a colourful forest of huge fan corals.

Million Hope shipwreck

Million Hope, a ship with a surprizing history was as a bulk carrier built in Japan in 1972. In June 1996 this large ship loaded with 26000 tons of chemicals sailed from Jordan and next day struck the reef 3 miles north of Sharm El Sheikh. A big concern of Egyptian authorities was to save the reefs from chemicals and a salvage company was successfully carried out. With some of her superstructure out of the water, the Million Hope is standing upright, decks underwater, keel at 25m depth. The vessel is almost intact. When exploring the wreck divers are amazed to discover another wreck which is squashed underneath. This is the Hey Daroma sunken in 1970. The Million Hope sank directly on top of another sunken ship! Many divers believe that in the near future Million Hope wreck will fall over onto her port side and sink completely. If it happens Million Hope will become one of the largest shipwrecks a diver can visit underwater.