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Popular Dive Sites

The Red Sea houses hundreds of fascinating snorkeling and diving sites to choose from. The aquatic menu is almost endless and features fascinating venues with massive coral walls and labyrinths and hundreds of species of fish in each and every rainbow colour or shape or size imaginable.

The Red Sea boosts shore diving and distant diving. We cover nearby sites on daily trips and remote islands and destinations such as the Fury Shoals and the Hamata Islands by luxury boats during liveaboards adventures and mini safaris.

Popular Dive Sites on Marsa Alam

St John’s Reef

St John’s Reef St John’s is a reef system, not too distant from Rocky Island and Zabargad. Its underwater scenery comprises many corridors and grottoes, like aquatic caves, during the day illuminated by penetrating sun rays. The visibility is great. St John’s is famous for its diversity of corals, such as black corals, serpentine [...]

Sha’ab Samadai / Dolphin House

Shaab Samadai Shaab Samadai resembles a banana-shaped site, sheltering a large contingent of dolphins in the wild. Although dolphins never appear on command, there’s a fair chance of spotting them. Dolphins however are not the only marine life at Shaab Samadai. Aquatic Panorama Fire coral Brain coral Mushroom coral Yellow goatfish Yellowspotted burrfish Napoleon [...]

Marsa Mubarak

Marsa Mubarak Marsa Mubarak has shallow waters and meadows of sargussum grass and seaweed. This attracts sea turtles and sea cows, also known as dugongs. Aquatic Panorama Netfire coral Broccoli coral Table coral Giant triggerfish Crocodilefish Common porcupinefish Hawksbill turtle

Salem Express

Salem Express On 15 December 1991, the Salem Express hit the Hyndeman reef, south of Sha’ab Shehr. The Salem Express carried 960 pilgrims returning from Mecca. Up to 1600 passengers were on board; only 180 survived. Regardless of the human tragedy, recreational diving is allowed here. The wreck rests in 30 meters of Red Sea [...]

Brothers Islands

Brothers Islands The brothers are two peaks, emerging from the waters opposite the Red Sea coastal town of El Qusier. They are rocky siblings, known as the Brothers Islands. The brothers are separated by 800 meters but they interlinked underwater.The bigger peak has a lighthouse were the Numidia went down. The Brothers Islands are [...]

Elphinstone Reef

Elphinstone Elphinstone conjures up visions of a mountain in the ocean. It is a testing site to practice your buoyancy control. The Elphinstone Reef is the place to be to encounter sharks, in particular the large oceanic white tip and shoals of hammerhead sharks. The reef is a residence for tuna, blue lunar fusiliers, [...]

Zabargad Island

Zabargad Island Zabargad takes its name from the mineral olivine gem, once mined on the island. It’s location is southeast of Port Berenice. Wall drops here to 15 to 20 meters. The seabed is equipped with coral towers and pinnacles. The floral landscape is formed by innumerable species of corals, such as the staghorn [...]

Rocky Island

Rocky Island Rocky Island is a small island, twenty minutes cruising from Zabargad and a pelagic haven, featuring a great variety of sharks, such as tigers, white tips, silvertips and hammerheads, manta rays, countless groupers, jacks and barracudas. Its walls are tumbling down to more than 100 meters. They show tapestries of sea [...]

Daedalus Reef

Daedalus Reef Daedalus, also known as Abu Kizan, is a preserved marine park. It’s isolated and remote and respected for its strong currents. Therefore, diving the Daedalus is a challenge. You certainly won’t be disappointed by the fantastic display of fire corals, brain corals, leafy corals, raspberry corals and spiny row corals. One can [...]

Shaab Claudio

Shaab Claudio Shaab Claudio, comfortably protected by the winds, is a fine destination with the Fury Shoals system. Here the penetrating and filtering sun rays are playing tricks with your mind. It is as if you are entering magical mystery rooms and galleries; such are the illuminating coral chambers. Its light effects are [...]

Shaab Sataya/Dolphin Reef

Shaab Sataya/Dolphin Reef Shaab Sataya, also goes by the name of Dolphin Reef. It is your prime option to spot the friendly animals in the wild. It has the shape of a banana or a crescent and shelters a large pod of spinner dolphins. Sometimes you can hear the dolphins ‘cry’ with their [...]

Hamata Islands

Hamata Islands The Hamata Islands are in an area called Qul’an Archipelago. They have become the home of turtles, clownfish, dolphins, rays and dugongs. Hamata is billed as the Egyptian Maldives, because of her sandy beaches. It has even become a bird sanctuary where ornithologists come to observe unique birds. This is a [...]