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.

La Isla del Gran Hermano

La isla del Gran Hermano, bañada por fuertes corrientes ricas en nutrientes, se caracteriza por la combinación de grandes muros de corales blandos, una espectacular diversidad de peces, escuelas de pelágicos, mantas alucinantes, diferentes tipos de tiburones y dos naufragios icónicos: Numidia y Aida en excelentes condiciones con corales suaves de color púrpura y corales duros e inundados de Borgoña y rayas blancas del mar Rojo anthias, lionfish y moray, acostumbrado a fuertes corrientes, refugio en el interior. La meseta del sur es un punto de acceso para los tiburones zorzales.

Panorama reef

Panorama Reef is one of the best diving sites near Safaga. A plateau is colonized by anemones, sponges and soft corals. Numerous clown-fishes, wrasses, groupers and antias fishes scurry along the plateau and inside few small caves, large predators ply around the reef in search of prey. The reef is easily recognizable due to a small lighthouse installed on it.

Aida wreck

Aida - Egyptian 75m military ship sank in 1957 when trying to moor to the island during the storm. The ship hit the western tip of the reef, broke in two parts and sank quickly. All 140 people on board were rescued by another ship.
Nowadays the main body of Aida rests on a steep slope at depths of 30-68m. Smaller sectors of the ship became parts of the reef covered with sponges and corals.

Numidia wreck

Numidia, a new English 137m cargo ship was going to Calcutta with 7000t cargo in September 1901. The ship hit the Big Brother island directly under the lighthouse and sank. After several hours of trials to save the ship, the captain gave the order to evacuate the crew. The remains of the ship and the cargo are nowadays scattered in a wide range of depths, from 7m to 78m. The locomotive wheels, overgrown with soft corals adorn the upper part of the ship wreck.

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

Isla Hermanito

La isla Hermanito, con su magnífico bosque gorgónico, la ciudad de anémonas y sus exuberantes muros de coral, es famosa por su diversidad de especies: morrays, tiburones de arrecife, tiburones oceánicos, tiburones trillados, tiburones sedosos, Napoleons, unicornfish de lengua negra y orangespine, pufferfish, barracudas , rayos, pulpos, nubes de peces de arrecife de colores de arrecife.