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| The great variety of fish, the fantastic coral gardens and reefs in the Red Sea will exceed all your expectations. On our daily half-day or full-day trips we go to different reefs, from Um Gamar in the North to Ras Abu Soma in the South. The dive sites are chosen depending on the climatic situation and on the degree of experience of the divers present on the boat. The Red Sea has all the fish that you could wish to see, from Clownfish to big swarms of Barracudas, blue spotted stingrays, big Napoleons, reef sharks, Hammerheads or even turtles! Some of our safaries: *North Safari Ras Mohamed close to Sharm El Sheik is a national park and offers phantasmagoric dive places. Such as Jolanda Reef and Shark Reef. These 2 reefs are on a plateau whose edges drop down to 200-meter depth. If you are lucky you can see Sharks during an early morning dive. One of the famous wrecks is “Thistlegorm”. The ship from Great Britain was on the way to Egypt to keep supplies coming for the English Africa-Corps as a German bomber attacked it and sank at 06.10.1941. The wreck couches in 30-meter depth on the sea bottom. Very interesting is the loading: armor, trucks, weapons, railway cars and even a locomotive. At Abu Nuhas are 4 wrecks. One of them, the steam sailer “Carnatic”, runs aground in 1869. The wood is rotten but the frame of steel, despite 130 years in the sea, is still visible and covered with beautiful soft corrals. *South Safari Shaab Sharm for example is equipped with plateaus grown with beautiful soft corals and steep slopes. Shaab Samadai, also called Dolphin House, is a place to swim with Dolphins, to dive on drops offs at the reef and to have a look to a wonderful cave system that lies in 5-meter depth. “Salem Express” was a ferry carrying pilgrims returning from Mecca, sank in 1992 after hitting the reef at night. 300 victims perished in one of the greatest marine tragedies of all time. The Panorama Reef is one of the highlights around Safaga. Huge coral formation with drop offs to over 200-meter. Have a look to numerous caves and overhangs, gorgonians and soft corals. Jacks, Barracudas and Reef Sharks often visit the area *Brother Islands Brother Islands doubtless belongs to the world-best dive sites. Two small islands, the Big Brother and the Little Brother, are lonely in the Red Sea, 140 km far away from the coast. There, superlative steep slopes await the divers. Little Brother offers a surprising view to multitude organism. At Big Brother, if it’s not too windy, you can dive to “Numidia”. It’s a wreck from 150-meter length, in 10 to 80 meter depth, sunk around 100 years ago and now covered with hard and soft corals. A terrific look! Also fascinating is the huge amount of Hammer Sharks and other types of Sharks.
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