Hurghada Dive Sites:

1. Sha'ab El Erg
Large lagoon at Hurghada's most northern  point, shallow dive on outer coral
gardens and gathering point for manta rays in Spring. Renowned for
sightings of resident dolphin community by divers.

2. Umm Gammar (27°21.155'N, 33°54.550'E)
Big groupers and lots of sweepers in the multiple caves found along the
eastern wall and drop offs of this tiny islands fringing reef.

3. Sha'ab Ruhr Umm Gammar (27°11.550'N, 33°54.550'E)
South of the Island, this reef offers superb wall diving with possibilities of
encountering reef sharks and sized groupers. Small wreckage.

4. Careless Reef (27°18.700'N, 33°56.200'E)
Two pinnacles rising from a shallow plateau surrounded by deep water.
Magnificent coral gardens famous for the numerous giant morays
encountered there, as well as the white tip reef sharks and schooling reef
fish.

5. Small Giftun (27°11.030'N, 33°58.530'E)
Several good dives are found on the reefs around this island, the most
famous the drift dive on the giant fan coral forest at the eastern fringing
reefs wall. Napoleon fish.

6. Big Giftun
Best diving found on its eastern side, especially at 'stone beach' where
morays and turtles are found on the hard coral garden found on the upper
part of the wall.

7. Abu Ramada Island (27°09.784'N, 33°59.046'E)
Two little islands surrounded by a single reef. Good drift dive along the
steep eastern wall, with big fan corals, overhangs and swim through. Big
groupers and carangids.

8. Gota Abu Ramada (27°08.340'N, 33°57.196'E)
South of the island, a little reef features a shallow plateau also named the
"Aquarium" because of the abundant schools of butterflies, banners and
snappers here found swimming around the mountains of coral gardens.

9. Ras Disha
The fringing reef which surrounds this cape offers a good shallow dive on
the hard coral garden found north of the lighthouse with schooling
barracuda, napoleon fish and groupers. Garden eels.

10. Abu Hashish
Shallow labyrinth on the south side of the island where lots of blue spotted
stingrays, puffer fishes and morays are found swimming through a pinnacle
landscape. Also drift dive along the eastern wall.

Marsa Alam Dive Sites:

1. Elphinstone Reef
Mythic dive site of the south. Sheer walls plunge deep into the blue, richly
decorated with soft corals, sponges, gorgonians and fans. Pelargics often
swim by the spot to feed on the abundant reef fish population. The northern
plateau is home to schooling hammerheads with frequent sightings of
oceanic white tip sharks.

2. Shaab Marsa Alam
Large reef in front of the last southern civilian town on the Egyptian
coastline. Corals gardens formed near huge coral blocks 'pyrites' and
shoals of banners, goatfish, snappers and jacks.

3. Shaab Samadai
A horseshoe shaped reef creates a shallow turquoise water lagoon where a
large herd of spinner dolphins live permanently. Several dives are found on
its outer walls. The western tip provides a large group of pinnacles rising to
the surface from a carpet of sea grass, populated by schools of reef fish.

4. Daedalus Reef
A huge round reef with a lighthouse more than 40 miles away from the
coast, features an excellent opportunity for spotting big pelagic all around
its steep walls with an extreme variety of fish and coral. Strong currents
possible.

5. Sha'ab Sharm
Big reef with big walls, hammerhead and grey reef sharks in summer,
malabar grouper, barracuda, and schooling reef fish the rest of the year.
Currents, soft corals and giant fans.

6. Abu Galawa
On 'Fury Shoal' group, this reef has a good hard coral garden on the north
side, and a wreck of an old tug boat fully covered with corals leaning on a
pinnacle on the south side.

7. Sha'ab Mansour
Good dives on both north and south plateaus, with strong currents which
favor the growth of all types of coral, including black, soft and fans.
Sharks, napoleon and tuna fish.

8. Sataya
Also named 'Dolphin Reef', huge barrier reef that offers a sheltered inner
lagoon and shear walls on the outside schooling hammerhead, large tuna
fish and jacks.

9. Zabargad
Enormous mountain coming out of the water surrounded by a lagoon and
circling reef. A couple of wrecks and some decent diving with a great
variety of both corals and reef fish.

10. Rocky Island
Tiny rock emerging a few feet out of the water, it offers one of the most
incredible underwater scenarios of the whole Red Sea. Steep walls falling
into the deep blue, currents, soft corals and a great abundance of pelagic
and all kinds of fish.

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