Diving - Rub Shoulders with the most Gorgeous Sea Creatures
Diving in the Red Sea is an amazing experience contrasting the arid desert landscape with the diversity of the sea-beds of the Red Sea, 2,300 km long and 350 km wide, on the African coast and the Southern point of Sinai. The Red Sea is easily accessible to experienced divers and beginners, with calm, clear, warm water (21 to 30°C), well-preserved coral reefs and many fish. It boasts some exceptional diving sites such as the Tiran islands, the underwater walls at Ras Mohammed and Samadai, Elphinstone, the Dahab canyons, Safaga, Mersa Alam…
The sport and supervision: all year round, professional diving clubs led by instructors with PADI or CMAS certification offer dives in search of parrot, angel and clown fish, sharks, barracudas and also lead dives to wrecks. Underwater trails with mask and snorkel on coral reefs, initiation or sport diving (limited to
30 m deep), from a boat or from the beach, at numerous points along the coast.
A medical certificate might be required.
Clubs on the Red Sea: Aquarius Diving Centre at Hurghada. Canyon Dive Club at Dahab. Divers' Lodge, Sinai Divers, the Camel Dive Club (accessible to disabled divers)… Equipment for rent on site.
Many of the Red Sea coastal resort hotels offer diving vacations.
Diving cruise from 8 to 15 days in the Red Sea accompanied by dive guides. Several dives per day at the most beautiful locations; programme and level of difficulty adapted to participants’ abilities…
Levels of comfort in the cabins varies with the different boats.
The best time to go: April to June and mid-September to mid-November, light winds and pleasant temperatures. Vast number
of fish to see from mid-July to the end of August in the 28°C waters of Ras Mohammed.
Combined activity vacations: diving and getting back into shape or thalassotherapy, diving and golf, diving and yachting, diving and desert raid…
