Four Seasons, Sharm

At Jackson Reef, diving into the crystal blue oceans surrounding Sharm El Sheikh and swim with colourful fish.

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“There’s a reef at Tiran labeled as Jackson Reef that is the best for fish spotting, ” says John Kean, dive trainer with Sinai Blues, the Resort’s plunge shop, and author of two books about diving in Sharm El Sheikh. “It’s positively teeming with life. We call it ‘the tank.’”

Four Seasons Resort Sharm El Sheikh Egypt

Wreck scuba diving

Numerous scuba divers seeing Sharm El Sheikh have one put on their particular thoughts: the Thistlegorm shipwreck. a plunge the following is like checking out a living museum, while the wreck seems frozen over time at the bottom of sea. “The lure for this adventurous dive could be the drama of their demise, this content of the cargo plus the historic significance, ” states Kean, just who blogged the book SS Thistlegorm: World War Two’s Greatest Shipwreck. This British offer ship ended up being bombed while en route to Suez, and it stayed from the seafloor untouched until it had been rediscovered by Jacques Cousteau along with his Calypso crew in 1955. These days, higher level scuba divers can swim through holds to explore the cargo (Bedford trucks, motorbikes, racks of rifles plus) that’s nevertheless stuffed inside ship.

Ras Mohammed nationwide Park

At the far southern end regarding the Sinai, the rugged headland generally Ras Mohammed juts in to the Red Sea, and since 1983, both land together with sea around it's been shielded as Ras Mohammed National Park. Here, the purple anemone–draped walls of Shark Reef dive vertically into thousands of foot of uncontaminated water, supplying a look at a number of the healthiest and best-preserved reefs in your community. Using this point skilled divers can capture a current for a heart-thumping underwater trip right to fish-packed Yolanda Reef.

Within the protected oceans of Ras Mohammed National Park, scuba divers can explore numerous varieties of coral.

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“Ras Mohammed is where the available expanse for the Red water begins, ” Kean says. “And this will make for exceptional marine life.” As divers drift utilizing the movement, they could pass imposing schools of snapper, tornadoes of barracuda and, sometimes, behemoth manta rays and whale sharks.

Concealed plunge internet sites

Boat trips from the plunge docks of Sharm El Sheikh regularly set you back places further afield, like Tiran, Ras Mohammed therefore the Thistlegorm, but there's also a large number of diving web sites tucked within coves just a few moments from Resort. Websites like Ras Nasrani and Ras Gamilla are calm and superficial adequate for snorkellers and beginning scuba divers, and feature sprawling coral gardens full of the region’s signature schools of brilliant orange anthias. “Near Four Seasons we can also achieve the huge, 500-foot-long [150-metre] wreck for the Million Hope, ” Kean says, “where scuba divers interested in off-piste scuba diving is able to see a rarely investigated, modern shipwreck.”

Revolutionary reefs, no motorboat trip needed

If the water had been drained away, the Red water along Sharm El Sheikh would look nearly the same as the Grand Canyon, with ledges and razor-sharp wall space losing vertically within yards for the land’s advantage. This means both scuba divers and snorkellers can explore amazing reefs right from the shore, without taking a boat ride. “Much of Sharm’s coast is drop-off waterfront, and we can access the reefs from drifting walkways, jetties and—in some places—from the coastline, becoming immediately treated to colourful coral and fish life, ” Kean says. One well-known place for scuba diving through the coast is Sharks Bay. Here, scuba divers and snorkellers of any experience degree can wade into the relaxed seas to breeze through a maze of coral minds and watch for strange creatures like cuttlefish and embellished ghost pipefish.