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Ras Abu Soma Reef lying in front of the
shore sloping gently and offers numerous quality
dive sites. Several caves with sweepers, schooling
reef fish and occasional sightings of eagle rays.
Tobia Arba also named the 'seven pillars',
rising from a sandy bottom and display a fascinating
landscape of soft corals, glassfish, gorgonians.
Giant puffer fish, bluespotted rays and octopus.
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Tobia Kebira Isolated reef emerges from a
shallow sandy depth and offers interesting diving
with schooling fish, morays and groupers.
Tobia Soghira stretching out from Tobia
Island, run a chain of pinnacles with a sandy bottom
in between. Stingrays, triggerfish and big shoals of
banner fish with gorgonians and acroporas in thee
background.
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Gamul Soghira Very colorful dive with
hovering sweet lip shoals, banner and butterfly fish.
A small coral block witch can be circumnavigated in
some half an hour.
Panorama Reef one of the highlights of the
area. Huge coral formation with walls dropping to
over 200m. Numerous grottos and overhangs,
gorgonians and soft corals. Jacks, baracudas and
reef sharks often visit the area.
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Middle Reef
northerly reef face slopes to
30m, then plummets vertically to much greater depths.
Hard coral gardens on the east and west corners with acroporas, brain and salad coral. Fun dive on the
south side through the shallow laberyth of caves,
tunnels and passages. Groupers, puffers and
sweet lips.
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Abu Gafan Possibly the best dive in Safaga,
a 300m long and narrow barrier features a 'plateau'
in both north and south extremes. Superb wall diving
with soft and black coral, giant fan and gorgonians.
Frequent sightings of jacks, barracuda and reef
sharks.
Shaab Shear
a long barrier creates a
shallow laggoon on its south side and hard coral
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extremes. Porites,
acroporas and fire coral with schooling jacks,
snapper and tuna fish. |
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