Spit Reef

This is a 105 m long passenger and car ferry built in Norway in 1981.



El Arish is also known as El Tor.

El Arish

Sha'ab Bagul

Azra

Great coral garden.
Seafans are located deeper than 20m.

Sha'ab sheer reef is located SE from Safaga. It's a large reef where boats stays for the night during cruises.

Coral Paradise is located on the W side of the reef.

Sha'ab Sheer - Coral Paradise is also known as Shaab Shear, Shab Sheer, Sha'ab Shear West.

Sha'ab Sheer - Coral Paradise

Sha'ab Ghaza



Sha'ab sheer reef is located SE from Safaga. It's a large reef where boats stays for the night during cruises.

Shark point is located on the E point of the reef.

Sha'ab Sheer - Shark Point is also known as Shaab Shear, Shab Sheer.

Sha'ab Sheer - Shark Point

This is a big coral head comming from 17m to 6m. It is covered of wonderfull soft corals.

Located southeast of Sha'ab Sheer.

Sha'ab Claude



Just northeast of Safaga island.

Gamul Kebir is also known as Gamul Kebeer.

Gamul Kebir

The Salem Express is the only wreck of the area. This is a ferry who was carrying pilgrims returning from Mecca. The boat sunk in 1992 during the night.

300 victims perished in one of the greatest marine tragedies of all time. Many divers avoid this site considering it a morbid forbidding place.

The wreck lays on the side, between 5 and 30m deep. You can enter some large places.

Anyway enterring the wreck is stricly forbiden. The Wreck is clasified as maritim Tombe.

It's up to you to decide if you want to dive in cemetery and try before to take your decision to take the place of somebody who lose relative inside.

Going in is an absolute "no do", but going there every year or two is interesting to see how nature slowly regains this tragic place.

The wreck is located south of Hyndman reef, southeast of Port Safaga.

Salem Express

An oustanding, but very far, dive site of Safaga. Gorgeous soft coral structure, and a huge butterfly-fish shoal.

This is the most distant dive site in the South of Safaga. It is located after Sha'ab Sheer reef.

Sha'ab Hamdalla is also known as Shaab Hamdalla, Shab Hamdalla.

Spit Reef

Snorkeling and Scuba Diving at Spit Reef