If newcomer, beginner or experienced divers!

• Big coral gardens, drop offs or reefs which rise from the seabed
• From small to big and in all colors – fish are a dime a dozen
• Drift diving for the „fast ones“ or only enjoying the calm underwater world

The dive sites around Safaga offer much to everyone.

With the aid of our Safaga reef map (PDF) and the following outlines, you can gain an overview:

Our house reef is particularly suitable for newcomers and settling in after a longer diving break. Here, you can always again see new, small things.

Everyone, if beginner or old hand, will find his right way here between 7 and 30 meters. This dive site is very easy to dive at, if at the main reef or at the separately running coral blocks. This reef is often visited by some dolphins.

A huge hard coral garden, interrupted by some sand channels, you’ll find here. Here is not a rich abundance of fish but the underwater scenery is surely worth a dive.

Parallel to the coast, a hard coral garden runs, interrupted by sand areas, to “Ras Abu Soma“. The most beautiful part lies in a depth between 5 to 15 meters. Very suitable for diving beginners and divers in education.

You can dive in this 2-km-long reef on different ways, what depends on the weather. Ras Abu Soma is also very suitable for drift dives. Very typical for this dive site are the big table corals, where often giant morays tarry. Here, you might have the chance to see some big fish.

A big hard coral garden runs parallel to the coast line. Shaab Saiman offers everything, a large diversity of fish and wonderful coral formations of different sorts. For the dive site lying nearby the open sea, the chance to see some big fish is given. Only if the weather is calm and still, it is possible to dive at Shaab Saiman.

The southern block forms with the main reef a channel through which we find the way to the exterior. At the main reef, there is a small cave in a depth of about 10 meters which is full of glassfish and hatchetfish.

The 2 main blocks form a passage and at its north-western end, 4 towers follow. In the eastern block, there is a cave in a depth of 10 meters which offers the “perfect home” for glassfish and hatchetfish. 

Here, it seems as if diving in an aquarium. Gamul Soraya is a very small reef which can be surrounded in about 50 minutes. The colorful coral growing and the enormous abundance of fish make every diver’s heart beat faster. It is also very suitable for night dives. 

The main attention of this dive site is directed to the eastern offshore blocks. As this reef is not this often visited (weather-related), the coral growing and the abundance of fish is still enormous. 

Here, napoleon fish, stone fish, morays and a turtle with a misshapen shell, “Quasi Modo“, live together.

Middle Reef offers a widespread reef territory as for example a labyrinth of hard corals, the so called „Swiss Cheese“ at the south-eastern side. The outside is highly suitable for drift dives. The reef is well-known for its coral scenery, but not for its abundance of fish.

Very extraordinary is the great brain coral garden which can be reached through a sand channel. This dive site is well-known for its moon-like coral scenery and not for its fish life. 

You will reach an intact, colorful brain coral garden on the north through a small channel. Partially, counter current must be calculated. Drift dives at the outside are possible. 

This dive site is very tranquil and is most suitable for diving beginners and divers in education. Here, schools of masked butterfly fish have their home.

Because of a tragic navigation mistake, the sinking of the “Salem Express“ happened on December 14^th 1991. The wreck is lying on the starboard. For it is relatively new, there is not very much marine growth so that there are many singularities visible. Diving at this wreck is a unique and haunting adventure.

A small but very beautiful reef which can be surrounded in about 60 minutes provided that the current conditions are ok. Especially the gorgonians, which you can discover at the southern offshore reef, are beautiful. With good luck and eye, you will also get to see the there-living longnose hawkfish.  

Abu Kafan is one of Safaga’s most popular dive sites. It is a big, extended reef with a southern and northern plateau as well as breath-taking drop offs at its north and east side. For diving at this reef, the weather conditions must be excellent. Abu Kafan is excellently suitable for drift dives provided that the current goes the right direction. You might have the chance to see some big fish.