Scuba Dive Location: Safaga, Egypt
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| Name: | Safaga |
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| Description: | Safaga offers some exceptional diving and is still relatively undiscovered. Tucked in just south of Hurghada, most diving is conducted by boat to reach the spectacular offshore reefs and wall dives of sites like Panorama Reef, Middle Reef and Abu Kafan. Despite the areas reputation for exciting wall diving, Safaga is also a good choice for novice divers. Several reefs are situated just 30 minutes boat ride away and offer several sheltered spots ideal for beginners to get their sea legs. The Tobia reefs, or the Seven Pinnacles as they are often known, are particularly stunning and boast beautifully coloured corals and a huge variety of fish including schooling juvenile barracuda, stingrays, trigger fish, puffers and groupers. Shallow coral gardens such as Gamul Soghira and Gamul Kebira are also superb for spotting myriad reef fish in kaleidoscope colours. As you head further away from the coast, Safaga offers more challenging and breathtaking sites where the diving is concentrated primarily on three areas. Panorama Reef is the most northerly and it is situated around a 60-90 minute boat ride from Safaga. Due to the currents, this site is one of the highlights of the area and best dived as a drift dive. There are huge coral formations with walls dropping to over 200m and numerous grottos and overhangs, gorgonians and soft corals. Jacks, barracudas and reef sharks often visit the area and a well-known family of napoleon wrasse are frequently sighted. Middle Reef is best known for its colourful and dramatic hard coral gardens, including spectacular brain corals, which are rated as some of the best in the Red Sea. Abu Kafan, or "the deep one", is probably the most spectacular dive site in Safaga with stunning, sheer walls plummeting towards the seafloor hundreds of metres below. Luxuriant soft corals, gorgonians and black corals abound and this is a regular haunt of schooling barracuda, reef sharks and turtles. Wreck enthusiasts are often drawn to Safaga to visit the Salem Express, an Egyptian passenger ferry that sank on its return journey from Mecca in 1991. 300 victims perished in one of the greatest marine tragedies of all time. This is a stunning site but a dive that is generally considered one for reflection rather than pleasure. |
| Geographical Location: | Red Sea |
| Water Temperature: | Water temperature between 21ºC and 27ºC. |
| Diving Suit: | Complete wet suit or wet suit with shorts. |
| Visibility under water: | Visibility between 20 and 30 meters. |
| Climate: | Summer temperatures can reach 45ºC and in winter go down to 20ºC. |
| How to get there: | You have a lots of ways to get to Safaga. The fastest and most comfortable is the airplane but can also take the boat, car and bus. |
| When to go: | June July August September October |
| Other Activities: | In Safaga you can enjoy the various excursions to discover the natural beauties and historical places. |
Scuba Dive Sites at Safaga, Egypt
| Abu Kafan (0 photos) | Al Kahfain (0 photos) |
| Arba Erg (0 photos) | Arpha Bank (0 photos) |
| Fellow Rocks (0 photos) | Gamul Kibeer (0 photos) |
| Gamul Shiwayya (0 photos) | M.V. Hatour (0 photos) |
| Middle Reef (0 photos) | Panorama Reef (0 photos) |
| Ras Abu Soma (0 photos) | Ras Umm Hesiwa (0 photos) |
| Salem Express (1 photos) | Sha'ab Bagul (0 photos) |
| Sha'ab Claude (0 photos) | Sha'ab Hamdulillah (0 photos) |
| Sha'ab Saiman (0 photos) | Sha'ab Sheer (0 photos) |
| Sharm El Naga (0 photos) | Tobia Arba'a, Arba Erg or Seven Pinnacles (0 photos) |
| Tobia Hamra (0 photos) | Tobia Kebira (0 photos) |
| Tobia Soghira (0 photos) | Umm Hal Hal (0 photos) |
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