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Red Sea

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Eight real sites: Ras Mohammed, Thistlegorm, Blue Hole, Tiran and the Brothers.

These are famous, mapped sites. Wind and park rules change; boats publish the day. Depths are typical published bands, not a live plan.

A Dahab jetty or a Hurghada garden is the correct first Red Sea water.

Points

Shark Reef and Yolanda

Ras Mohammed, Sinai · 8-30 m · often 15-30 m · year-round, current

The park's signature drift: a wall, a current, and the Yolanda freighter's cargo on the reef. Crowded, famous, still a real sea.

SS Thistlegorm

Sha'ab Ali, Egypt · 16-30 m · often 15-30 m · year-round, wind

Sank 1941; trucks and BSA bikes made it a mass wreck. Holds are overhead. Typically a liveaboard or long day.

Dahab Blue Hole

Dahab, Sinai · entry 6-20 m rec. · often 15-25 m · year-round

A beautiful hole with a lethal arch folklore. The rim is a snorkel; the arch is not a first Red Sea plan. Also a freedive site with a buddy.

Jackson Reef

Tiran Strait, Egypt · 8-25 m · often 15-25 m · year-round, current

A Tiran classic with current and a wrecked freighter in the site lore. Wind cancels the strait.

Elphinstone

off Marsa Alam, Egypt · 18-40 m · often 15-30 m · liveaboard / weather

An offshore wall with a pelagic reputation. Not a house reef. Current and depth.

Brothers Islands (Big / Little)

offshore Egypt · 10-40 m · often 20-30 m · liveaboard windows

A marine-park pair of walls and wrecks (Numidia, Aida in the lore). Weather is the gate.

Abu Dabbab seagrass

Marsa Alam, Egypt · 5-15 m · variable · year-round

A seagrass bay known for turtles and, at times, dugong sightings. Distance rules; this is not a chase product.

Canyon (Dahab)

Dahab, Sinai · 10-30 m · often 15-25 m · year-round

A shore-accessible canyon/reef site that is a Dahab craft classroom: buoyancy, a guide, and a map, not a Hole dare.

Tips

The Red Sea is a park drift, a mass wreck and a hole that should stay a rim. The Brothers are a later week.

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