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★★★★★ Gabr el Bint

Gabr el Bint is located about 15km south of Dahab and is approached by day boat in about 50min. Drop Off with fan corals. Way back over a sandy lagoon with table corals, a reef plateau to end the dive, partly stronger current. Small cave at 26m.

★★★★★ Shark & Yolanda Reef

The most famous site in Ras Mohammed. There are many ways to dive the site so there is something for everyone here. Shark Reef, Yolanda Reef, and Satellite Reef make up the 3 pinnacles. On Yolanda Reef you can find toilets and a mast laying around from the sunken Yolanda wreck.

★★★★★ SS Thistlegorm (Wreck)

This is one of the most famous wrecks in the world. This site is suitable only for advanced divers and EAN is highly recommended. on a trip there you do at least 2 dives, inside and outside around. The bridge rises up to 17 m.

★★★★☆ Ras Ghozlani

One of the most beautiful dive sites in the area. Having been closed to divers for many years due to the turtle nesting beach close by, this site has an extraordinary array of beautiful table corals, glassfish covered pinnacles, and an overall stunning landscape.

★★★★★ Canyon, Dahab

The Canyon is located 1.5km from the Blue Hole. Another geographical marvel, it is a deep fissure in the reef that you reach after entering a shallow lagoon and swimming along a coral garden plateau.

★★★★☆ Woodhouse Reef

Fun drift dive from the boat, Woodhouse is the longest of the 4 main reefs in the Straits of Tiran. Currents can be strong. There is a split in the middle of the reef and care needs to be taken towards the end of the reef where a washing machine effect can sometimes be present. The reef is fabulously colorful!

★★★★★ Jackson Reef

One of the best dive sites in the world. Can be done as a drift or mooring dive. Wonderful coral garden with soft and hard corals. Sometimes challenging currents on the “corners“. Backside of the reef known for hammerhead sharks in July to October.

★★★★☆ Gordon Reef

Gordon reef is most famous for the wreck of the “Loullia” which ran aground on the northern end of the reef in 1981. This dive can be done as either a drift or a mooring dive, mooring on the southern side of the reef.

★★★★☆ White Knight

The reef wall drops away to a sandy plateau at about 13m, at the center is a gully with swim throughs at 10m and 35m. There is an eel garden to the north.

★★★★☆ Jackfish Alley

A comparatively shallow site that is good for a second or third dive, Jackfish Alley has two enormous caves filled with shoaling glassfish. Depth: 6m to 20m. Rating: intermediate. Access: boat.

★★★★☆ Ras Fanar

This site is in the Ras Muhammad area, reachable in one and half hours by daily boats to the south of Sharm El Sheikh. This is a drift dive between two columns of reefs flushed by a strong current most of the time.

★★★★☆ Ras Za`atar

Most northern dive of Ras Mohamed National Park, this site is the southern entrance to the bay of Mersa Bareika. This is where the steep wall of Ras Mohamed, with caves and overhangs, meets the gentle slope of the bay of Marsa Bareika

★★★★☆ Shark Observatory

This site is suitable for advanced divers. You can access this site by boat or you can get to it by swimming through a hole in the reef to access it from the shore. This dive is home to a beautiful wall covered with soft corals and many shelters. Currents can sometimes be a bit tricky here.

★★★★☆ Marsa Baryka

This dive site sits in the bay of Mersa Bareika and is scattered with colorful coral heads that stretch all around the area and flourish with high and low tide, giving a diverse array of marine life.

★★★★☆ Dunraven, wreck

The Dunraven wreck is lays a bit further out than the popular daily dive sites around Sharm el Sheikh, on Shaab Mahmoud. This wreck is laying upside-down and is gives shelter to many species.