ST. JOHN'S  

All of its dive sites are very close to each other, making it easy to travel from one dive site to another on a liveaboard. St. John's offers a lot of variety in its dives: steep walls, tunnels, caves and breathtaking hard coral formations. One of these dives (St. John's Caves or Umm Kharalim) is truly unique and is a photographer's heaven with rays of light shimmering through small tunnels.

Cave Reef is about an hour north of St. John's Reefs. You'll have a lot of fun finding your way through tunnels and around battlements. One of the most beautiful diving spots in the Red Sea.

A vast chain of reefs with a variety of outstanding dive sites. Abu Galawa in the north to Sataya in the south. Have fun discovering caves, tunnels, coral gardens, plateaus and cliffs! For example, at Abu Galawa within Fury Shoal there is a wreck called the “Tugs”.

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.