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Shark Observatory

Also known as نقطة مراقبة القروش; Ras Mohammed Wall

Sheer soft-coral wall dropping past 90 m below the clifftop shark-watching observatory, riddled with caves and overhangs

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Sheer soft-coral wall dropping past 90 m below the clifftop shark-watching observatory, riddled with caves and overhangs. Runs south into Anemone City. Day boat; variable current. Inside Ras Mohammed National Park: declared 1983 by the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency, 480 km2 (135 km2 land, 345 km2 sea).

Highlights

  • Sheer soft-coral wall dropping past 90 m below the clifftop shark-watching observatory, riddled with caves and overhangs
  • runs south into Anemone City.

Marine life

  • glassfish
  • hatchetfish
  • red-mouth grouper
  • trevally
  • jack
  • barracuda
  • turtle
  • reef shark
  • gorgonian sea fan

Good to know

Protected status
Inside Ras Mohammed National Park: declared 1983 by the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency, 480 km2 (135 km2 land, 345 km2 sea).
Fees
Ras Mohammed National Park entry fee; Emperor Divers quotes EUR 5 per diver per day for park sites (marine-park fees quoted at EUR 5-7/day).

Dive centres in Sharm el-Sheikh

Centres that run Shark Observatory and the reefs around it.

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