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Shaab Pinky

Also known as Sha'ab Pinky; Pinky Reef

Offshore reef between Fanous and Umm Gamar with good soft-coral cover on the deeper faces

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Offshore reef between Fanous and Umm Gamar with good soft-coral cover on the deeper faces. Depth 15–30 m; day boat; Moderate current. Egyptian Red Sea marine protected area; HEPCA-maintained mooring buoys, anchoring prohibited

Highlights

  • Offshore reef between Fanous and Umm Gamar with good soft-coral cover on the deeper faces

Marine life

  • anthias
  • soft corals
  • groupers
  • moray eels
  • glassfish
  • napoleon wrasse

Good to know

Best season
Year-round. Water 22-29 C; calmest seas and best visibility March-November, with the coolest water and strongest northerlies December-February.
Protected status
Egyptian Red Sea marine protected area; HEPCA-maintained mooring buoys, anchoring prohibited
Fees
No separate site fee published; environmental tax historically 3.5 LE/diver/day (Red Sea Governorate, 2001), collection suspended after January 2011 per HEPCA.

Dive centres in El Gouna

Centres that run Shaab Pinky and the reefs around it.

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