Where 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 World Travel Awards. The Red Sea is a flooded rift valley, which means it is very steep-sided and deep. 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 British transport carrier sunk in WWII fully intact with war armaments. In the same area, it is possible to dive right inside a former British steamer called ‘Dunraven’, which sank in 1878. The Jolanda is another well-known wreck at the famous site of Ras Mohammed National Park. The Jolanda sank recently and her cargo of toilet bowls litters the surrounding area, cre
