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Diving Sites -
Hurgada |
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Large lagoon at Hurghada's northern most point,
shallow dive on outer coral Gardens and gathering
point for manta rays in Spring.
Famous for sightings of resident dolphin community
by divers.
Umm Gammar: Big groupers and lot of sweepers in
the multiple caves found along the eastern wall
and drop offs of this tiny islands fringing reef.
Shaabrhur Umm Gammar: South of the Island, this
reef offers superb wall diving with possibilities
of encountering reef sharks and sizeable groupers.
Small wreckage.
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Careless Reef
Two pinnacles rising from a shallow plateau
surrounded by deep water.
Magnificent coral gardens famous for the numerous
giant morays encountered here, as well as the
whitetip reef sharks and schooling reef fish.
Small Giftun: Several good dives are found on the
reefs around this island, the most famous is the
drift dive on the giant fan corals at the eastern
fringing reefs wall.
Big Giftun: Best diving is around on its eastern
side, especially at "stone beach" where morays and
turtles are found on the hard coral garden found
on the upper part of the wall.
Abu Ramada Island: Two little islands surrounded
by a single reef.
Good drift dive along the steep eastern wall, with
big fan corals, overhangs and swim throughs.
Big groupers and carangids.
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Gota Abu Ramada: South of the island, a little
reef features a shallow plateau also named the
"Aquarium" because of the abundant schools of
butterflies, banners and snappers here found
swimming around the mountains of coral gardens.
Ras Disha: The fringing reef which surrounds this
cape offers a good shallow dive on the hard coral
garden found north of the lighthouse with
schooling barracuda, napolean fish and groupers.
Garden eels.
Abu Hashish: Shallow labyrinth on the south side
of the island where lots of blue spotted
stingrays, puffer fishes and morays are found
swimming through a pinnacle landscape.
Also drift dive along the eastern wall.
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