Dive Sites
Strait Of Gubal Sites , Dahab Sites
This dive site starts with a series of three natural pools with a sandy bottom.
After exploring the third pool, exit into open water. Once out into open water you will find a hard coral slope with massive pore corals and small pinnacles between which you can find salad corals and brain corals. Descend to a depth of 15 / 20 metres and circle a sandy plateau while keeping the reef on your left. End the dive by coming back to your starting point.
The world famous wreck SS Thistlegorm was sunk in 1941 in the area of Sha’ab Ali in the Gulf of Suez. She was packed to the gunwales with a cargo of supplies destined for the British fifth army based in Alexandria. Armoured Bren-Gun carriers, BSA motorcycles, jeeps, trucks, rolling stock, aeroplane parts, stacks of rifles, radio equipment, munitions, and a plentiful supply of Wellington boots can all be seen during your dive.
The Thistlegorm is heaven for wreck enthusiasts, but is also one of the most underrated fish dives in the area, attracting schooling barracuda and providing a hunting ground for giant tuna and snapper.
A drift dive around the outer wall of the South
Laguna of Tiran island from either the
Laguna entrance to the green beacon
or vice versa depending on the current.
Schools of butterfly fish gather along
the hard coral wall with stunning glassfish pinnacles
adorned with Gorgonian fan corals lining the plateau.
This is a dive for all levels that is rich in marine life with
the chance to spot larger pelagic species cruising along in the current.
Diving the Kimon M offers an intriguing experience. The front section, extending back to No. 2 Hold, has become a debris field scattered across the reef. The remainder of the ship, however, provides a series of excellent dives.
The view through the remnants of No. 2 Hold to the reef is exceptional. The engine room is hazardous due to ongoing deterioration.
Divers typically swim along the port side to the stern, where the propeller and rudder are located. Rounding the stern, divers find the rear decks and sections of the ship that remain largely intact.
Eel Garden dive site in Sharm El Sheikh features an endemic species of garden eels and is a full drift dive over a large, triangular sandy plateau that reaches depths of up to 50m.
Completed as a full drift dive, keeping the reef wall on their right shoulder, divers can expect to see swathes of these meter long eels retreating into the sand in a huge Mexican wave as they swim by.
Other interesting species to look out for are sand divers and juvenile razor blennies.
A coral maze which truly shows the Red Sea coral at its best. Three giant pinnacles have grown together over the ages to create a playground of valleys and lagoons full of every reef fish you can imagine.
One of the lagoons is home to thousands of juvenile barracuda, with trevally and large snapper always in attendance guarding their larder!
An earthquake 10 years ago collapsed huge sections of the reef exposing holes and cracks that are rapidly filling up with renewed coral growth.
Located 12km North of Dahab, the famous Blue hole dive site is a large submarine sinkhole, 150m across and 110m deep. We start the dive at El Bells, entering at a crack in the reef plate and descending into an open chimney lit beautifully by the sun with an arch swim through at 26m.
Once on the other side of the arch you have a beautiful hard and soft coral reef wall with impressive plate coral formations, large barracuda and well established anemones dotted along your route. Finishing your dive swimming across the inky depths of the blue hole, watching free divers disappear and reappear as you swim by is the perfect way to dive this site.
