Diving Sites

- Ras Gamila

- Ras Nasrani

- Ras Bob

- White Knights

- Shark Bay

- Far Garden

- Middle Garden

- Near Garden

- Na`ama Bay

- Sodfa

- Tower

- Pinky´s Wall

- Amphoras

- Turtle Bay

- Paradise

- Ras Umm Sid

- Temple

- Ras Cathy

- Kormoran (Zingara)

- Jackson Reef

- Woodhouse Reef

- Thomas Reef

- Gordon Reef

- South Laguna

- Ras Ghazlani

- Ras Za`atar

- Jackfish Alley

- Eel Garden

- Shark Observatory

- Anemone City

- Shark & Yolanda Reef

- Dunraven

- Lonely Mushroom

- Stingray Station

- The Alternatives

- Thistlegorm

- Kingston/Shag Rock

Shark and Yolanda Reef are situated at the very southern most tip of the Sinai Peninsula. Here, two vast bodies of water meet, the Gulf of Aqaba and the Gulf of Suez. A unique environment is created of nutrient rich water and strong currents, in which marine life thrives. Over the month of July and August the water is at its warmest and it is then that huge schools of pelagics arrive to feed in these waters. With them come several species of shark. The sites have two coral islets, Shark Reef and Yolanda Reef. Between the two is a shallow saddle at 15 m and on the inside is a lagoon. On the outside of Shark Reef is a huge vertical wall. The prevailing current at Shark Reef splits on the outside wall. Start your dive here, taking care not to be swept into the lagoon. In the summer months a vast column snapper marks this divergence of current. Spend some time amongst them. There is no greater site than the school barreling out around your bubbles and the sun shining though. As you leave the snapper; put your right shoulder to the reef and drift southwards across the wall. Where the wall meets the saddle, the currents become complicated. In certain conditions a down current may form on the wall. At the saddle a current may sweep outwards. This is best negotiated on shallow side of the saddle. One of the striking things about this dive site is the variety of fish life. The lagoon is populated with morays, blue spotted stingrays, stonefish and scorpionfish. Two enormous napoleons cruise curiously after divers and on the plateau turtles munch on soft corals. Out in the blue, you will see a different kind of action, pelagics. Vast schools of snapper and barracuda in the summer months along side small groups of king fish, queenfish, yellowfin tuna and big schools of batfish. Hammerheads are spotted mainly off Shark Reef or the saddle. In December and January there is a brief mating season for grey reef sharks lasting only for a few days. Outlined here, are just the regulars, but virtually every other big fish worth seeing has cruised these reefs at one time of another. The outer plateau of Yolanda Reef is scattered with soft coral boulders. Huge schools of short-nose unicornfish form along this area. As you drift along the drop off keep an eye out into the blue. In certain conditions a down current may form on the wall! A mountain may appear to rise from the depth. On closer inspection this turns out to be an immense school of barracuda. Watch out, they are often jealously guarded by blacktip sharks. Finish your dive above the wreckage of the "Yolanda", a wreck that lay there over the seventies, but has now taken its final resting place over the drop off at 200 m. Its cargo of toilets remains on the shallow reef. Your boat can pick you up at this point or you can use your remaining air investigating the shallow lagoon between Shark and Yolanda Reef which is populated with morays, blue-spotted stingrays, stonefish, scorpionfish and napoleons. Ras Mohammed is best as a drift dive from a boat. It can also be done from the shore. However, this is a serious option, since at some point you must return against the current to your entry and exit point at the Hidden Bay.