Safaga.

About this region

A working port town south of Hurghada with some of the healthiest reefs on the mainland coast. Panorama Reef, Abu Kafan and Middle Reef draw current-fed soft coral, while the Salem Express — a ferry lost in 1991 — makes for one of the Red Sea's most solemn wreck dives.

Region facts

The sites

advanced

5–40 m

Abu Kafan

novice

5–25 m

Canyon Reef (Sharm El Naga)

intermediate

6–18 m

Gamul Kebir

novice

5–18 m

Gamul Soraya

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novice

2–16 m

Hal Hal

advanced

5–27 m

Middle Reef

advanced

5–40 m

Panorama Reef

novice

5–30 m

Ras Abu Soma

advanced

1–40 m

Ras Umm Hesiwa

advanced

30–48 m

Sadana Island Wreck

advanced

12–30 m

Salem Express

intermediate

5–18 m

Shaab Claude

intermediate

1–18 m

Shaab Humdallah

intermediate

2–35 m

Shaab Saiman

intermediate

5–30 m

Shaab Sheer

novice

3–30 m

Sharm El Naga

novice

3–18 m

Soma Bay House Reef (Breaker's)

novice

5–15 m

Tobia Arba'a (Seven Pinnacles)

novice

5–18 m

Tobia Kebir

intermediate

5–18 m

Tobia Soraya

intermediate

3–35 m

Tobya Hamra

Likely sightings

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