Outside
Our nearest and largest bay which provides a huge range of dive sites
suitable for all levels of diver and snorkeller. Sites include:
Panorama - A one
way dive over deep pinnacles and littered with table corals. Hawksbill turtles and
yellow tail barracuda are regular visitors.
Shaab Abu Ziyad - With an extensively
lined and mapped cavern system (for the trained only!) and a stunning hard coral
garden at the start of the dive, you then continue around large pinnacles and even
a gorgeous red anemone before ending your dive on the reef wall.
Madrassah - A
favourite for photographers due to the patient fish life, this site, named after
the word 'school' due to it's versatility for training course does not immediately
'wow' the diver like some of our others. However dive slowly and you will find stonefish,
scorpionfish, pipefish, frogfish and crocodilefish living amongst the nooks and crannies.
When you head around the corner, you are confronted with a set of pinnacles swarming
with juvenile fish and their ever present predators, and even an anemone city. Quite
often, this is the site people ask to dive again!
El Aruk Goa - These inner pinnacles
are reached after heading across some seagrass and are still protected by the north
reef, so can be dived in all weather conditions. Here large parrotfish can be seen
nibbling at the coral while the residents of the seagrass, namely green sea turtles,
come to rest on their favourite coral blocks.
Seagrass - Don't expect a freshly
mowed lawn, but a dive in the seagrass of Mubarak, while sometimes appearing devoid
of life (it isn't!), can bring you face to face with huge green turtles, honeycomb
and feathertail rays. Spot a cloud of sand though and you're probably about to bump
into Dyson, our resident dugong!
Farsha Sahab - So named because this enormous,
immaculate hard coral garden gives you the impression of flying over clouds. The
scenery wins the day here, this is about as good as it gets. Coral further than the
eye can see, all undamaged, shows you why the southern red sea has such a good reputation.
Habili Gudda - An advanced dive that is only reached by zodiac, these large coral
blocks are so detached from the main reef that they are almost considered off-shore.
Subjected to current and wave action, expect to find corals and creatures adapted
to such surge conditions, and visibility is usually excellent. Fish life is hugely
abundant here, and it has the potential to throw up some sightings that will be proud
entries into your logbook - think dolphins, shark, tuna and eagle rays.
Shaab
Abu Mahmoud - When the south winds appear expect to get the opportunity to dive this
relatively unexplored site right on the south tip of Marsa Mubarak. Head off to explore
the coral beds away from the reef, or stick to the wall to swim along with the huge
schools of goatfish and unicornfish - either could bring you close to the resident
white-tip reef shark that calls this site home.
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