Diving
in Quseir
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Big
Brother
Little Brother
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The smaller island next door
has a superb fan coral forest and
plentyof caves, overhangs, black
coral, and a great deal of pelagic
including sharks, tuna, barracuda,
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A 400m
long island with lighthouse, 40
miles off the coast from El
Queseir. Offers
wreck diving on two sunken boats on
the northern tip and excellent wall
diving along the southern side of
the reef with
strong currents promoting the growth
of a spectacular forest of soft
corals. Frequent sightings of big
pelagics and an astonishing variety
of marine life.
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Erg El Asal |
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Big blocks of mountain coral
surrounding a small flat topped reef
can
be circumnavigated in one dive.
Clouds of goldfish engulf the reef
and swimming through the sandy
patches surrounding the reef white
tip sharks may be found sleeping as
well as turtles and barracudas.
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Sharm El Bahari
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Mangrove Bay Hotel' has been
recently built next to this natural
habour, which offers a good dive on
the northern corner of the
fringing reef with a hard coral
garden sloping gently to the deep.
Large schools of unicorns, snappers,
surgeons, fusiliers and
baracudas. |
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Sharm El Quibli |
Bay on
the coast offers some decent diving
on its northern corner,
with a sloping reef covered in
acroporas, fire coral and other hard
corals. Lots of groupers. |
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Marsa Wizri
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Another bay on the coast,
the fringing houses large schools of
yellow
goatfish, unicorns, barracudas and
other reef fish species on both
north and south outer extremes. |
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Habili Sheik Malek
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Less than one mile away from
the Tumb-Mosque on the coast, a
little
reef formation creates a labyrinth
of hard corals, fire and huge tables
where lots of fish often
concentrate. Napolean, baracudas and
eagle ray.
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Ras
Torombi
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Shallow dive around the
northern most tip of the cape's
fringing reef,
a great deal of fire coral, giant
table coral heads scattered over a
sandy bottom. Snappers, butterflies,
rays and guitar sharks. |
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Shoona |
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Bay
on the coast with good dives on the
north and south side. Schools
of batfish, baracudas and goatfish
around the coral heads with glass
fish which come out from the slope.
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