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Torfa Fanous East

Also known as Fanous East; Dorfa El Fanus East; Torfa El Fanous East; Turfa Fanous East

Shallow wall rising off a sloping sand bottom with spectacular pinnacles split by cracks and cavities

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Shallow wall rising off a sloping sand bottom with spectacular pinnacles split by cracks and cavities. Table corals and coral blocks packed with glassfish - one of the best Hurghada training and photography sites. North of Big Giftun, about 45 minutes from Hurghada. Depth 8–27 m; day boat; Usually mild current. Egyptian Red Sea marine protected area; HEPCA-maintained mooring buoys, anchoring prohibited

Highlights

  • Shallow wall rising off a sloping sand bottom with spectacular pinnacles split by cracks and cavities
  • Table corals and coral blocks packed with glassfish - one of the best Hurghada training and photography sites
  • North of Big Giftun, about 45 minutes from Hurghada

Marine life

  • glassfish
  • silversides
  • jackfish
  • lionfish
  • crocodilefish
  • blue-spotted rays
  • surgeonfish
  • unicornfish
  • dolphins occasionally

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 Hurghada

Centres that run Torfa Fanous East and the reefs around it.

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