I started with a beach dive directly from the hotel – the spot called Temple.
Sure I had a quiet some expectations, from all the stories I heard from diving in the red sea. But already the first dive was overwhelming to me: You have crystal blue water, plenty of reef fishes, visibilities up to 30m and a water temperature of 27 degree @ 30m depth ;-)
Here you can find the highlights from my 8 boat dives around the Sinai cost line:
My smallest (20cm) & biggest moray (2m):
The red sea is famous for it ship wrecks which sunk during the 2nd world war. One of the most famous is the Thistlegorm which was discovered by Jacque Cousteau in 40ies but never told to public since it was officially found in the mid 90ies.
Since then it is the No1 dive spot for wreck divers in Europe.
And I was lucky – I got the confirmation to join this dive on my last day.
We arrived the spot after a 2 ½ shuttle with a speed boat in the middle of nowhere. The waves were strong and we expected a dive with quiet some current.
Once arrived at the platform at 20m the sight got better and the current was gone. We were in front of a 122 m long wreck which was transporting tanks, Amory, motorbikes, cars, trains and many other stuff which you still can find down here.
Cannon + monition from year 1929:
But there is also plenty of marine life – like grouper fishes, scorpion fishes, turtles and the funny locking crocodile fish.
My dive buddies and me made two dives that day and thanks to Nitrox, each one last about 45min … it was really worth to make this course during these days.
Time was too short, but the dives were fantastic.One thing is clear to me – I’ll be back!
Pirate of the red sea
