Dunraven Wreck

The wreck is located an hour away from Ras Mohammad. It lies on its side and is badly deteriorated. It is overgrown with soft corals and filled with glassy sweepers that move about in orderly procession. In the damaged stern, divers can see lionfish gliding along amongst these glassy sweepers.
The Dunraven sunk in Beacon Rock when returning from the Indies with a shipment of cotton and wool. It hit the reef and sunk. One hundred years later in 1978 Israeli divers discovered it. Today it lies some 28 meters (92 ft) down. The boat moors at Beacon Rock, and the divers have to swim down the wall to the wreck and return the same way. If there are strong currents the dives are usually suspended. This dive is for advance divers only.

Sha'Ab Ali, Naufragio Thistlegorm

The Thistlegorm lies some 28 meters (93 ft) down a few kilometers northeast from Shag Rock. It first gained notoriety when Jacques Cousteau visited in 1956.
German bombs sank it on October 6, 1941 while waiting to enter the Suez Canal. There was only nine dead among the ship's crew.
The forward deck is filled with both hard and soft corals. The addition of some colorful fish make it look like a floral display. The ship still has many of its items intact. Such things as armor cars, weapons and ammunitions. On the bridge there is a large 4 inch antiaircraft gun pointing to the bottom. Divers can check out the cabins of the crew.

Sha'Ab Abu Nuhas, Naufragios Carnatic y Ghiannis

The great reef of Sha'Ab Abu Nuhas is located north of the island of Shadwan. This spot is a graveyard for ships; among them are the Carnatic and Ghiannis.
The Carnatic was a splendid English steam ship built in 1862. The ship was heading from Bombay to Calcutta with a shipment of bottle soda water. It hit the reef on the night of September 13 and ended up sinking for good the next morning at 11 AM. The wreck lies some 24 meters (80 ft) down. Divers can still see bottles of soda water on the ship. The visibility is not very good due to the sandy bottoms and the strong currents.
Some 70 meters (230 ft) from the Carnatic is the Ghiannis D. This ship is 3,500 tons of steel. After it hit the reef, the ship did not sink completely, it took six weeks and strong waves to finally sink it. The wreck is 28 meters down. There is all kind of marine life that passes through the wreck, everything from eels to sharks.

The Pipeline

Nuweiba is the city forgotten by time. Many divers flop to the still unexplored sites of Nuweiba. The Pipeline is a reef that is home to numerous fish. This reef is only 60 meters (200 ft) away from the coast and it's easy to get to.
It has a sandy bottom that is covered by algae and at depths of 8 meters (26 ft) there is a series of round colorful round coral formations that resemble small dunes. The reef starts at one meter down and slowly slopes to 33 meters (109 ft) At 28 meters (93 ft) down divers can find gorgonians of all types and other sea life typical of the Red Sea, such as: eels, rays, turtles, clownfish, unicorn fish, etc.

Other recommended sites:

- Blind Reef
- Siyul Kebira Island
- Bluff Point
- Umm Gamar Island
- Shabrur Umm Gamar
- Carless Reef
- Giflun Seghir
- Erg Abu Ramado
- Gota Abu Ramada
- Brothers Islands

This area of the Red Sea has grown in the last few years. The main spot is the tiny Dedalus Reef. It is part of the Fury Shoel coral system that includes all kinds of reefs in the area of Ras Banas, the island of Zabargad and Rock island.
The water temperature is always above 25°C (77°F) and reaches 30°C ( 86°F) in the summer. The summer brings a lot of plankton that reduces visibility.
The coral formations seems to be less diverse than those in other areas. The fish are less present on the reef close to the coast.
However, on the outer parts of the reef the marine life is simply fantastic and it is possible to see pelagics.

Dedalus Reef

Dedalus Reef in Arab is known as Abu Kizan, the British baptized it Dedalus Reef. The reef is located in the middle of the Red Sea, by the Egyptian town of Marsa Alam. The reef is located 161 Km (100 miles) south of Brothers Island.
The walls of the reef look like a lunar view. The reef is crowded by all kinds of marine activity. Divers can find barracudas, turtles, grey reef sharks, hammerhead sharks and many more. The west wall is 25 meters deep and ends in the deep blue.
In the regions close to the boat, divers can find objects that have been tossed out and have grown marine life. Also close there is a group of dolphins.

Dolphin Reef

Sataya Reef, better known as Dolphin Reef, is the right place to find this type of mammal. There is a three-kilometer (1,8 miles) long barrier, that separates a lagoon with depths no deeper than 10 meters (33 ft) After some hundred meters the lagoon gives away to deeper depths in the direction of the coast. The dolphins hang out during the summer, but they don't allow people to get close to them. On the other side of the reef the deep blue has depths of 80 meters (264 ft) Divers can also see hammerhead sharks, grey sharks and tiny tunas. Near the surface turtles can also be seen.
The best spot is the outer southeastern wall where the coral fish swim by.
The currents are not a factor at all.

This legendary mining island was used by the pharoes, Romans and Egyptians to gather green gems that were worth a lot of money. The most famous of these gems were found at this island.
Today the island is patrolled by the Egyptian army because of problems with neighboring Sudan.
The bay has towers that give the impression of a sub aquatic town. Around the pier the peaks of the pillars have merged near the surface allowing hardly any sun light into the sub aquatic corridors. This is where numerous groupers make their home. At night squids, crustaceous, and nudibranchs come and populate the reef.

This tiny coral island is located some 20 minutes southeast from Zabargad.
The reef goes down to some 1,000 metes (3300 ft) down. Collapsed rocks mark the coral rock and the currents move the huge gorgonians and branches of black corals.
The perimeter of the island promises fabulous creatures that are worthy of repeated dives. With luck divers will see black tip sharks, eels, mantas, barracudas and tunas.
It is necessary that the boat be moving due to strong currents which make mooring impossible.