Access: boat.
Depth: between 5 and 25 meters.
Minimum level: all levels of divers and snorkelers.
Location: 18 km south of Marsa Alam.
Description: Shaab Samadai, also known as Dolphin House, is one of the most popular attractions in the Red Sea, as it offers a great opportunity to swim with the bottlenose dolphins in their natural habitat. The horseshoe-shaped reef has a protected lagoon, which is their favorite place to play and rest there. These extraordinary marine mammals are often happy to swim with divers and snorkelers, divers will sometimes have the chance to meet face to face with dolphins but also to hear them communicate with each other underwater.
In addition to the dolphins, you can also visit superb dive sites with magnificent corals, caves and underwater life typical of the Red Sea.

The Islands – the Big Brother and the Little Brother – are two small exposed promontories that just come out of the water in the middle of the sea at around 60km from the Egyptian coastline. The Little Brother has a very high concentration of life in a much reduced area. The walls are covered literally with sponges, anemones and all sorts of hard and soft corals in an astonishing variety of colors and shapes.

Abu Galawa Soghayar has a fantastic coral garden and a wreck of a private sailing boat, sank in the 80th and it´s full of soft corals and populated with glass fish.

Zabargad Island is one of the biggest islands in the red sea, where turtles used to nest, offer dives in the blue or along the reef with an amazing underwater landscape, incredibly rich in fauna and well preserved.

Sha’ab Claude with its famous swim-throughs and huge porite corals. White tip reef sharks and an anemone and clownfish settlement can be seen a little off the reef to the South.

NUMIDIA, which lies upon the reef on the northern side of the island between 5 m and 80 m. This 150 m long ship sunk in 1901 and is now completely covered with both hard and soft corals and gorgonias.

As well Abu Galawa Kebir is home of a wreck. The Chinese barge named TIEN HSING sank in 1943 and lays between 5m and 16m depth directly at the reef and meanwhile it is a part of it.

Access: boat.
Depth: between 5 and 25 meters.
Minimum level: all levels of divers and snorkelers.
Location: 121 km south of Marsa Alam
Description: Fury Shoals is home to Shaab Claudia, a popular cruising destination. It is a reef relatively protected from the wind, which offers several styles of diving in one! The landscapes are fantastic coral garden, mountains of hard corals, the canyon where crystalline visibility and play of light are fascinating!
Very rich, Claudia is home to nudibranch, yellowfin goatfish, triggerfish of all kinds, parrotfish, a multitude of schools of bannerfish, angelfish, snapper and nason but also napoleon and turtle.

The Daedalus Reef The reef is surrounded by a sheer wall all around, featuring a plateau on its southern side that goes from 28 m beside the reef to 40 m on the edge of the drop-off. Reef and hammerhead sharks are often spotted here. UW marine life is here more abundant than anywhere else, with schools of surgeons, fusiliers, carangids.

Shaab Maksur is a narrow but long reef formed with two plateaus in the northern and southern edges, east and west walls offer a mild current as you can drift all over the walls with all the magnificent reef formation.
At the north terraced plateau, you can see often dolphins, barracudas or reef sharks passing by. The south plateau with its bigger coral blocks is home for many species as turtles, eagle rays, snappers and many more.

HabiliGafaar is a mass of soft corals teaming with shoals of snappers, butterflyfish, and barracudas. Mantas, grey reef and silvertip sharks can often be seen in the blue.

St. John’s is a cluster of small reefs offering some of the most spectacular underwater wildlife vistas in the Red Sea. Due to their isolation and a quasi-permanent current, it seems that all the marine life of the Red Sea is oncentrated here.

Gota Kebir is a massive reef, famous for its tunnels and south plateau, where jacks and barracudas can be seen and the occasional manta.

Gota Soraya is rated as possibly one of the best wall dives in the Red Sea, with overhangs and cracks in the reef wall full of glassfish and sweepers and an abundance of corals, Grey Reef, Silvertips, and Hammerhead sharks.

Access: shore.
Depth: between 0 and 30 meters.
Minimum level: all levels of divers and snorkelers.
Location: 49 km north of Marsa Alam.
Description: Marsa Shuni, a beautiful and large bay sheltered from the winds. North and South, it is possible to easily reach the reefs, separated by seagrass. After crossing a coral garden and a number of pinnacles covered with hard and soft corals, you will finally arrive on the outside reef, which goes down to 30 meters deep. Among these corals, you can find a variety of reef fish such as parrotfish, wrasse, big grouper, cuttlefish, spotted moray eel, crocodilefish, scorpionfish

Access: shore.
Depth: between 0 and +40 meters.
Minimum level: all levels of divers and snorkelers.
Location: 44 kms north from Marsa Alam.
Description: Accessible from the beach, the entrance is through a small hole above the reef, spend a few minutes in a small cave, exit and you will have access to both sides of the reef. South, you will find a huge block covered with soft corals in the shape of a mushroom and underwater life ranging from 20 to more than 40 meters. The North where you can admire one of the most beautiful coral gardens in the region.
You will find a large concentration of soft and hard corals but also scorpionfish, stonefish, bannerfish, pufferfish, red-mouthed grouper, angelfish, crocodilefish, blue spotted stingray, a multitude of schools fish and cleaning stations, hopefully maybe the reef shark.

Access: shore.
Depth: between 0 and 30 meters.
Minimum level: all levels of divers and snorkelers.
Location: 41 km north from Marsa Alam.
Description: Marsa Murain is a beautiful bay with a north and south reef. In the middle of the bay there is a small seagrass area sloping down.
You can find a wide variety of hard and soft corals, scorpionfish, angelfish, bannerfish, triggerfish, grouper, wrasse, ray, moray eel, nudibranch and turtle.

Acces: shore.
Depth: between 0 and 20 meters.
Minimum levels: all levels of divers and snorkelers.
Location: 36 km north of Marsa Alam.
Description: Marsa Abu Dabbab is made up of two beautifully colored reefs, each of them fascinating, separated by seagrass.
It is known as one of the most famous dive sites in the Red Sea and all of Egypt. This is one of the very few places in the world where you can have the chance to dive with the dugong and many giant green turtles. In the shallower part, it is not uncommon to see the strange but harmless guitar ray fish.
In addition to all of this, there is also the possibility of observing ghost pipefish, hippocampus hystrix and frogfish.
All this rare and exceptional marine diversity is what makes Abu Dabbab a very special dive site not to be missed by divers staying in Marsa Alam.

Access: boat.
Depth: between 3 and 18 meters.
Minimum level: all levels of divers and snorkelers.
Location: 30 km north of Marsa Alam.
Description: The reefs of Abu Dabbab are numerous and form a varied diving area such as cave, canyon, wreck, pinnacle and coral garden.
Abu Dabbab 1 is a coral reef surrounded by a huge coral garden on a sandy bottom between 9 and 18 meters deep, but also by a few pinnacles and a cave. You can admire an abundance of reef fish as well as butterflyfish, coachfish, glassfish, scorpion fish, but also turtle, barracuda and white tip shark. Abu Dabbab is also ideal for macro.

Access: boat.
Depth: between 7 and 18 meters.
Minimum level: all levels of divers and snorkelers.
Location: 30 km north of Marsa Alam.
Description: The reefs of Abu Dabbab are numerous and form a varied diving area such as cave, canyon, wreck, pinnacle and coral garden.
One of the best known is Shaab Abu Dabbab 2. The south side of the reef where you will cross a passage and come out on a bottom between 6 and 18 meters littered with pinnacles then you will continue towards the wreck of a cruise ship Heaven One which caught fire and sank in 2005 on 14 meters. The wreck is not impressive as most of the superstructures are destroyed, but you will take the opportunity to explore it. You reach the north of the Abu Dabbab 3 reef where there is a splendid cave with crystal clear visibility and come out on the coral garden where you admire the superb red anemone but also clownfish, stingray, moray eels, tuna, turtle, napoleon.

Access: boat.
Depth: between 6 and 16 meters.
Minimum level: all levels of divers and snorkelers.
Location: 30 km north of Marsa Alam.
Description: The reefs of Abu Dabbab are numerous and form a varied diving area such as cave, canyon, wreck, pinnacle and coral garden.
Shaab Abu Dabbab 3 is a splendid hard coral reef. On the south side, you will visit a superb cave which crosses the reef and then coming out you can admire a sumptuous coral garden which is between 9 and 19 meters deep but also some pinnacles rich in both flora and fauna such as butterflyfish, angelfish, bannerfish, lionfish, stingray, turtle, tuna

Access: speedboat.
Depth: between 3 and 20 meters.
Minimum level: all levels of divers.
Location: 36 km north of Marsa Alam.
Description: Om Halhalla is a dive site with a large reef and many coral pinnacles.
Divers will enjoy "drifting" along a magical landscape littered with impressive pinnacles from 3 to 20 meters. Om Halhalla has the reputation of being an aquarium with the presence of scorpionfish, nudibranch, moray eel, wrasse of all kinds, Lionfish, napoleon, turtle, triggerfish and possibly whitetip shark.

Access: boat.
Depth: between 3 and meters.
Minimum level: all levels of divers and snorkelers.
Location: 30 km north of Marsa Alam.
Description: The reefs of Abu Dabbab are numerous and form a varied diving area such as cave, canyon, wreck, pinnacle and coral garden.
Shaab Abu Dabbab 4 is much less crowded than the other reefs of Abu Dabbab, so it is even richer and generally has very good visibility. You will find a huge coral garden that stretches between 12 and 22 meters deep, littered with pinnacles and coral tables. Take the time to explore and discover an impressive fauna and flora of the Red Sea such as anthias, angelfish, yellowbar angelfish, surgeonfish, unicornfish, moray eels, stingray, crocodile fish, lionfish, triggerfish, turtle, tuna and barracuda

Access: speedboat.
Depth: between 5 and +40 meters.
Minimum level: Advanced diver and 50 dives.
Location: 29 km north of Marsa Alam.
Description: Located offshore, Elphinstone is a 600 meter long reef, ranging from 5 meters to over 100 meters deep. A spectacular underwater life with a multitude of fish and wonderful drop-offs.
Elphinstone is one of the best spots in the Red Sea to meet sharks such as hammerhead, oceanic, gray, silky but also occasionally whale shark and manta ray.
You will also be able to observe the abundant life of its reef such as schools of snapper, anthias, fusilier, tuna, trevally but also Napoleon, turtle and giant barracuda. You can admire an impressive variety of soft corals of all shapes, sizes and colors.
Due to strong currents the conditions can sometimes be a bit difficult, this site is recommended mainly for experienced divers.

Access: boat.
Depth: between 5 and 30 meters.
Minimum level: all levels of divers and snorkelers.
Location: 120 km south of Marsa Alam.
Description: The reefs of Abu Galawa are part of the Fury Shoals, crescent-shaped sheltering a lagoon of "turquoise color" hence the name Galawa.
Abu Galawa kebir "big", where in 1943 the 34 meter Tien Hsing wreck was found on the north reef between 5 and 18 meters. With the soft and hard corals covering the tug, it is difficult to distinguish the wreck from the reef! You can see octopus, nudibranch, scorpionfish, glassfish, napoleon, clownfish, moray eel.
Abu Galawa soraya "small" where you will find the wreck of a small sailboat which rests at 15 meters. You do not enter it but pass your bust to admire moray eels as well as schools of hatchetfish and glassfish. On the reef, soft and hard corals that extend to a depth of 24 meters sheltering many species of reef fish.

Access: shore.
Depth: between 0 and 30 meters.
Minimum level: all levels of divers and snorkelers.
Location: 11 km north of Marsa Alam.
Description: Marsa Egla is a natural bay.
Access is from the beach, north and south reefs separated by seagrass that often hosts the dugong and green turtles.
Rich in soft and hard corals, the bay is home to many species of reef fish such as octopus, giant moray eel, Malabar grouper, crocodilefish, scorpionfish, catfish, stingray.

Access: shore.
Depth: between 0 and 17 meters.
Minimum level: all levels of divers and snorkelers.
Location: 70 km south from Marsa Alam.
Description: The wreck of Abu Ghusun is also known as "Hamada", a small freighter of 499 tons, which carried a cargo of polyethylene balls on the road from Jeddah to Suez. It sank in 1993 and ran aground on the Abu Ghusun reef.
You will find it 17 meters deep, accessible from the shore after about 15 minutes of swimming.
The wreck is in several parts, although relatively recent, the hull has been colonized by many species such as soft and hard corals, grouper, napoleon, turtle, moray eel.

Access: boat.
Depth: between 5 and +40 meters.
Minimum level: all levels of divers and snorkelers.
Location: 130 km south of Marsa Alam.
Description: Shaab Sataya in the south-east of the Fury Shoals area, stretches for 5 kilometers long, in the shape of a crescent, sheltering a large lagoon where it is easy to take shelter. It is the ideal place to come for scuba diving but also renowned for coming to swim freely with the long-billed dolphins, listen to them underwater and admire them playing with each other. The reefs are fabulous, pinnacles adorned with corals and magnificent drop-offs. But you can also see species such as trevally, barracuda, ray, lionfish, angelfish, scorpionfish, crocodilefish, turtle and at certain times of the year you may be lucky enough to meet the whale shark.

St. John’s is very famous by its unique cavern and canyon system. The reef is surrounded by a beautiful hard coral garden, on its southwest side full of holes like a Swiss cheese. In shallow water you can dive through the open passages to see the light show of the sun and the nice soft corals growing inside.