DAEDALUS, ZABARGAD AND ROCKYS

Over 180 km south of Brother Islands, this huge reef is surrounded by drop-off walls and strong currents. The hard corals have grown to enormous size! Here you have a great chance of seeing the well-known school of hammerhead sharks in the north-east of the reef.

A top diving area that is particularly characterized by its diversity. Here you can dive along steep walls, float over drop-offs, experience the open water feeling on the edges, circle coral towers in the protected shallow area and explore inlets, watch fish or simply admire this unique coral garden as you swim past. There is an unnamed wreck on the north side. The 70 m long ship lies at a depth of 24 m. The entire stern impresses with its intact superstructure: stairs, railings, davits, portholes, hatches and the bridge make it a picture-perfect wreck.

Rocky Island is a legendary diving site that makes every diver's heart beat faster. The fringing reef surrounding the entire island promotes the growth of all kinds of life forms. The reef walls are full of the most beautiful soft corals, gorgonians, sponges, black and fan corals. Due to its exposed location and small reef size, Rocky Island is a very lively reef. Reef sharks, especially gray reef sharks and silvertip sharks, can be observed in the open water and perhaps manta rays and dolphins too.

This reef is known for shark encounters, whitetip reef sharks, hammerhead sharks, gray reef sharks, thresher sharks and of course what Elphinstone is famous for: the Longimanus – the oceanic whitetip reef shark.

Elphinstone Reef or Sha’ab Abu Hamra, located 20 km from Marsa Alam, is a reef no larger than 300 meters in length. Its spectacular steep walls drop down well over 100 meters on both sides of the reef. Strong currents make this a perfect drift dive along steep walls covered with many species of fish and soft corals. Here you can see barracudas, angelfish and hordes of anthias, groupers, moray eels and schools of sweetlips. The reef is covered with soft corals all the way to the north. At the southern end of Elphinstone is an archway with a depth of 65 meters, this is well beyond the recreational diving limit but ideal for technical divers. Whitetip sharks also occasionally visit this area.
Other species of sharks are regular visitors here – whitetip and gray reef sharks, as well as hammerheads and silky sharks can be spotted.

The east side is a large cliff, the west is less steep and a little sandier. Overall, this area has a lot of soft corals, sponges, gorgonians and giant whip corals.