Also known as Sha'ab el-Qirsh; شعب القرش; Shark & Yolanda Reef (combined dive)
Twin mountain-like coral peaks rising from the shelf edge
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Twin mountain-like coral peaks rising from the shelf edge. Sheer eastern wall clad in orange and purple soft corals, charted to roughly 800 m. Normally dived as one drift with Yolanda Reef. Depth 5–40 m; day boat; moderate to strong current; visibility 10-40 m. Inside Ras Mohammed National Park: declared 1983 by the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency, 480 km2 (135 km2 land, 345 km2 sea).
Centres that run Shark Reef and the reefs around it.
Sloping reef strewn with the amphora cargo of a wrecked Ottoman-era vessel
Dense carpet of sea anemones and territorial anemonefish on the shallow shelf at the southern end of the Shark Observatory wall
The beacon-marked southern corner of Sha'ab Mahmud
Gently sloping sandy plateau with a V-shaped stream of sand issuing from a small cave
Helwa Ya Baladi
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