What is the best area to dive?
A. The Northern Red Sea has the most popular land based diving at Sharm El Sheikh on the southern most tip of the Sinai Peninsula. Sharm was recently awarded the “Top Dive Destination in the World,” by the World Travel Awards. Every dive is spectacular, with a variety of extremely colorful fish and coral life. Due to the presence of ‘cleansing’ currents, consistently warm water and plentiful sunlight, the corals in this area are particularly healthy and colorful. The visibility is also exceptionally good at between 100 and 200 feet. The Red Sea is a flooded rift valley, which means it is very steep-sided and deep. Either most dive sites are fringing reefs with coral drop-offs to virtually unknown depths or isolated coral heads on a sandy bottom, occurring where there is a coral ‘shelf’ between the land and the drop-off. For those who enjoy wreck dives, one of the most spectacular wrecks sits at the bottom of the Red Sea: The Thistlegorm: a Britsh transport carrier sunk in WWII fully in
