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Scuba Dive Location: Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

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Name:	Sharm El Sheikh
Description:	Sharm El Sheikh lies at the tip of the Sinai Peninsula in the Red Sea. It offers a variety of dive sites from reefs and walls to wrecks. The climate is hot, the water is warm and clear, and the reefs are covered in life. Diving is readily available everywhere and there are nearly fifty dive Centers in the region. More Europeans learn to dive here than anywhere else in the world because the diving is ideal for beginners. The diive Centers only require you to do one local dive before they will take you on a boat trip in order to give you an opportunity to orient yourself to Red Sea diving. There is some shore diving from Sharm, but boat trips are necessary to access the best reefs. The popularity of these sites does mean that the water can get rather crowded, particularly once the day boats arrive. The dive sites are diverse and covered in coral formations and a range of marine life, including jacks, snappers and barracudas. The areas covered by Sharm are from the Straits of Tiran through to the marine park of Ras Mohammed. The Straits of Tiran have four circular reefs rising out of deep water and surrounded by steep drop offs. Ras Mohammed has steep coastal cliffs that drop away underwater to depths of over seventy metres. There are coral gardens that are shallow and calm as well as some excellent drifts in strong currents. For the more advanced diver, with day boats going as far as the wreck of the Thistlegorm if you are willing to get up early for a four-hour boat trip. There is also the possibility of diving the Dunraven, which takes 2 hours and 30 minutes by boat.
Geographical Location:	Red Sea
Water Temperature:	Water temperature between 20ºC in winter and 27ºC in summer.
Diving Suit:	In the winter complete wet suit and in the summer wet suit with shorts.
Visibility under water:	Visibility between 15 and 30 meters.
Climate:	It has a climate that allows this area to be visited all year round. In summer temperatures reach very high at around 40ºC.
How to get there:	The only transportation is the plane.
When to go:	June July August September October
Other Activities:	In Sharm El Sheikh you have many activities to do besides diving. You can enjoy the shops for shopping, excursions, going to the casino, amusement park, visiting the museum, visit the various gardens and parks or if you prefer, you can go practice some sport going to the golf course. For the evening you have several bars and nightclubs to have fun.

Scuba Dive Sites at Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

Alternatives (0 photos)	Carina (0 photos)
Dunraven (30 photos)	Far Gardens (0 photos)
Jackfish Alley (2 photos)	Jackson Reef (17 photos)
Kingston (7 photos)	Middle Gardens (2 photos)
Million Hope (0 photos)	Near Gardens (1 photos)
Paradise/Fiasco (0 photos)	Ras Ghozlani (1 photos)
Ras Katy (24 photos)	Ras Nasrani (4 photos)
Ras Um Sid (17 photos)	Ras Za'atar (9 photos)
Shark Observatory (0 photos)	Shark Reef / Yolanda (11 photos)
Small Passage (22 photos)	Temple (8 photos)
Thistlegorm (54 photos)	Thomas Reef (7 photos)
Tower (0 photos)	White Knights (0 photos)

Scuba Dive Photos from Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

By: www.tropicalfavourites.com
Dive Site: Dunraven

By: www.tropicalfavourites.com
Dive Site: Ras Nasrani

By: Jim Anderson
Dive Site: Near Gardens

By: Jim Anderson
Dive Site: Middle Gardens

By: Jim Anderson
Dive Site: Jackson Reef

By: Stig Sarre
Dive Site: Thistlegorm

By: Stig Sarre
Dive Site: Thistlegorm

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Scuba Dive Photographers at Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

Alcino Gonçalves (1 spots)	Jim Anderson (3 spots)
João Pedro silva (12 spots)	Manuel Sousa Dias (5 spots)
Sofia Monteiro (6 spots)	Stig Sarre (1 spots)
www.tropicalfavourites.com (2 spots)