TIRAN ISLAND Dive Sites
Dive sites around Tiran island are very close to our diving center at Sea Life and Sea Club resort, therefore our Sharm El Sheikh diving boats leave from Sharks Bay Marina to dive there.
•Jackson Reef
At the Jackson Reef a Cypriot merchant ship sank on the North part of the reef and is a landmark as it is visible at the surface. The southern part of this Sharm El Sheikh dive site is cut with sandy splits and borders are covered with gorgonians. Numerous fire corals can be seen at the southwest corner, which can be subject to violent currents. Turtles, grey sharks, in some periods hammerhead sharks can be discovered while diving in Sharm El Sheikh Jackson Reef.
•Woodhouse Reef
With Diving Ocean Red Sea Egypt you can explore the Woodhouse Reef, which is a narrow and long reef thus offers no moorings or shelter for the boats, you have to make a drift dive. The most interesting part of this Sharm El Sheikh dive site is the Northern half, with a canyon that opens at a depth of 30 meters. The very clear waters allow to spot frequently turtles, rays, several sharks and beautiful hard and soft corals.
•Thomas Reef
The Thomas Reef is an extraordinary, grandiose marine landscape and you may come to meet barracudas; whitetip reef shark, groupers.
•Gordon Reef
The Gordon Reef is easily identified by the wreck of a large cargo sunken in 1981. This larger reef has protected moorings for the boats and a shallow plateau perfect for snorkeling. Different dive circuits can be followed, allowing to explore a sandy plateau where many garden eels hide, spot some beautiful nudibranchs hidden in the crevices of coral gardens, but also some pelagic fishes.
Ras Mohammed NATIONAL PARK
Ras Mohammed National Park was created in 1983 to protect and observe the fauna and the flora of this zone south of the Sinai, this Park offers some of the most beautiful diving spots of the Red Sea thanks to strong currents oxygenating the underwater life thus making it very rich and appreciated from pelagic fauna.
All boats for Ras Mohammed leave from Sharm el Sheikh Travco harbour.
Ras Mohammed is one of the greatest dive area in the Red Sea in Egypt, with colourfull fishes, corals, and great encounters : look at our new slideshow from the last Fotoworkshop in Sharm : "Ras Mohammed -garden of Allah"
• Ras Ghozlani
A drift dive on the new dive site Ras Ghozlani opened to public only a few years ago, offering wonderful landscape with huge table corals, pinacles covered with soft corals, some parts with many anemones and their friends clownfish !
• Ras Zaatar
Ras Zaatar is a splendid wall covered with multicoloured alcyonarians and gorgonianss, interesting landscape due to large chimneys playing with the sun light rays creating amazing effects. These Crevices are inhabited by lionfish, big groupers, barracudas schools and some tuna cruise in the blue.
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• Jackfish Alley
Jackfish Alley is a great Sharm El Sheikh dive site, between 5 and 20 meters to explore caves along a very deep drop off: you will spot so many reef fish as well as trevallies, sharks and rays (blue spotted rays or even mantas)!
• Shark Observatory
Shark Observatory is a splendid wall covered with multicoloured alcyonarians and gorgonianss, interesting landscape due to large chimneys playing with the sun light rays creating amazing effects. These Crevices are inhabited by lionfish, big groupers, barracudas schools and some tuna cruise in the blue.
• Shark & Yolanda Reef
The Shark and Yolanda Reef is the most famous and popular dive site in Ras Mohammed, since it is combining different types of underwater landscapes (drop off, coral garden, wreck). Rich flora due to the strong currents and many pellagic fishes (barracudas, sharks, grouper and napoleonfish) can be seen thanks to the deep drop off in this Sharm el Sheikh dive site.
Dahab
Dahab dive sites are offered as a day trip by minibus and are dived directly from the shore.
• The Canyon
At the Canyon you can make a beautiful dive from the shore in the area of Dahab, with an easy access to the sea made through a small path in the coral reef. This dive site starts with a sandy lagoon in 3 meters depth, followed by a very rich coral garden and the entrance into the "canyon", a large opening fissure which can easily be explored between 14 to 22 m depth and enjoy the great light effects in a surreal landscape.
• Blue Hole
Blue Hole is one of the most famous Dahab dive sites, not only because of the interesting shape of the opened coral chimney but also due to its mant dive accidents… The coral reef is great to be explored from the surface for snorkelers: a large circular shape of 150 m opening in the surface and 110 m deep. For divers the site is more interesting leaving from "the Bells", another sort of chimney that widen and narrows until 32 meter depth, followed by a drift dive until the entrance of the Blue Hole in Dahab.
Thistlegorm
The Thistlegorm is a mythical wreck of the Red Sea near Sharm el Sheikh,, this transport ship was sunken in 1941 as it was transporting arm munitions, British army trucks, 2 tanks, 2 locomotives, spare parts for planes and automobiles destined for the British army stationed in Egypt. The ship Thistlegorm lies between 15 and 30 meter depth and its great length makes it a great wreck to be explored. An exceptional wreck for any diver for its history and preserved condition, the variety of parts and pieces which can be observed and the abundance of fauna which took possession of the place.
The Thistlegorm wreck dive can be organised either by speed boat or by daily boat.
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