Bawaki

This shore dive offers easy entry to the water, and a beautiful dive to a maximum depth of 40 meters. It is possible to see, in addition to the beautiful corals and fish, the engine of an old fishing boat. Sadly the rest of the wreck has been washed away. Pre and post dive refreshments can also be found in the Bawaki Camp!

Dolphin Bay
Is the Taba Steigenberger Hotel’s house reef. This is a stunning shallow dive to a maximum depth of 12meters. The reef houses a multitude of coral and fish, with the possibility to find octopus amongst the crevices. In this calm lagoon you will also find large areas of Sea Grass, where the eagle eyed can spot Sea Horses!

Rock Sea
Is accessed by a short snorkel over the reef table, where you descend to 6-7 meters. Following the sandy slope and coral garden down to 20 meters, you find a beautiful drop off, allowing you to dive to over 30 meters. Here, you can find schools of Basslets, Angelfish and numerous groupers. Most spectacular are the caverns and fissures in the reef wall, and the covering of soft and hard corals.

Ray Hole

Ray Hole is accessed over the reef table, requiring careful entry. The reward however makes this very worthwhile. This is a beautiful dive over a stunning and colorful landscape, to a maximum depth of 40 meters. The reef here contains a number of fissures, and offers the chance to see octopuses! The on site Bedouin camp serves both food and drinks.

T-Reef

Castle Beach Ras Shaitan

Ras Shaitan Ras Shaitan
Which translates as Devils Head, is a beautiful reef with numerous anemone fish, shrimps and Nudibranches to attract your attention. The sandy plateau has large areas of sea grass, and...

Angelfish
On this dive you can visit a small cave and several small canyons, progressing to a maximum depth of 40 meters. The sand plateau has small pinnacles offering home to a variety of Nudibranches,

Ras Abu Galum
These dives are offered as a full day out, with 2 or 3 dives. There is the opportunity to make 3 different dives here, or combine the day out to include one dive in Ras Mamlah. The Bedouin camp here serves delicious freshly caught fish and other Bedouin specialties, and for families and those with a sense of adventure, a one and a half hour camel ride takes you to the Blue Hole in Dahab. These sites are also well known to technical divers, where the landscape at depth is spectacular.

Al Ma'agana
Al Ma’agana has an easy entry by shore to two dive sites. Both enter over a large area of sea grass, the home to many Sea Cucumbers and Sea Horses. Al Ma’agana to the left is categorized by large numbers of anemones, and pinnacles on this sandy slope. A small canyon on 27m offers a nice swim through. Al Ma’agana to the right offers sandy plateaus to 40 meters, and a colorful reef wall to 16 meters. Refreshments can be purchased at the Bedouin camp on site

Um Um Raicher
This is a beautiful shallow dive over both pinnacles and a reef with numerous fissures and chimneys. You begin over an area of sea grass, progressing from one pinnacle to another until you reach the first reef area. You can move through this reef to dive between two reef walls, searching in the many crevices and chimneys for Octopus, baby Barracuda, and sepia, and watching the pelagic fish hunting. You can return to the same point as you entered, or can make this dive as a drift down to El Huwei, when the current is behind you.


El Huwei
El Huwei is one of the most southern of the Nuweiba ‘barrier reefs’. The reef has a number of fissures and chimneys with beautiful soft and hard corals and some beautiful, large Table corals. There is also the chance to see many different species of baby fish in large schools, and Glass Fish in the crevices. This dive can be done as both a beautiful shallow or deep dive.