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Rocky, Zabargad, St Johns Safari
The most southern reefs of the Egyptian Red Sea are
visited on this safari.
Zabargad Island is a wonderful dive site offering wall diving, a wreck and shallow
areas with dozens of slender coral towers. Here live a great many
tropical groupers, which are easily approached and photographed
during a dive without equals in its category. When diving here at
night you will find octopus, crustaceans and nudibranches emerge to
crowd through the coral grottos.
Rocky Island is a small fossil-coral island that emerges from the surface, elliptical
in shape, surrounded by a surface level reef. The island sinks it
walls down to more that 1000 metres of water. The walls are covered
in soft corals and huge gorgonians which float and wave in the
current. It is possible to sight many species of shark here as well
as sailfish, dolphins and manta rays.
St John's is a beautiful reef system which
lies approx. 40km north of the Sudanese border and 20km South of
Zabargad. It
is a vast collection of small reefs offering some of the most remote
and rewarding diving in the Red Sea. Habili Ali offers giant
gorgonians and black corals whilst Grey Reef, Silvertip and schools
of Hammerhead sharks might be found on the west side. Habili Gafaar
is a mass of soft corals teaming with shoals of Snappers, Butterfly
Fish and Barracudas. Mantas, Oceanic White Tip, Grey Reef and
Silvertip Sharks can be seen in the blue. Gota Kebir is a massive
reef, famous for its tunnels and south plateau where Jacks and
Barracudas can be seen and the occasional Manta. The tunnels are
ideal for novice cave divers.
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 Glass
Fish and Sweepers and an abundance of corals, Grey Reef, Silvertip,
Oceanic White Tip and Hammerheads.
Note:
*It is not allowed to do night dives at Rocky and Zabargad.
*Minimum of 50 logged dives requested and no night dives permitted
in the Marine Park area by Egyptian Law. These are challenging
dives with strong currents, so not for inexperienced divers.
*All dive sites are subject to weather conditions
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