Sharm El Sheikh City

Sharm El Sheikh City

Sharm El Sheikh city is situated on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, in South Sinai Governorate on the coastal strip along the Red Sea, Sharm el-Sheikh is the administrative hub of Egypt’s South Sinai Governorate, which includes the smaller coastal towns of Dahab and Nuweiba as well as the mountainous interior, Saint Catherine’s Monastery and Mount Sinai . Nowadays it is a major touristic hotspot and resort city in Egypt.

Sharm el Sheikh city is sometimes called the “City of Peace”, referring to the large number of international peace conferences that have been held there.

Diving In sharm El Sheikh

Since the divers have discovered the Red Sea in the ’50s for itself, it is considered one of the finest and most colorful diving locations in the world.

The water in the Sharm El Sheikh is very clean and transparent, The big attraction for divers and snorkelers are surely the many reefs, these fragile ecosystems provide shelters and food for thousands of species,it is a unique diving resort, which, in striking contrast to the “over-water-world” a colored paradise like that of life and colors only.

There are an incredible variety of dive sites, each showcasing abundant marine life. Choose from shallow patch reefs, drift dives and walls, interesting wrecks, vibrant coral reefs, plateaus, lagoons, caves and underwater gardens. The 1240 miles (2000 km) of coral reefs are home to over 1200 species of fish as well as dolphins, turtles and 44 species of sharks.

Diving Sites

Wreck diving : Many divers visiting Sharm El Sheikh city have one place on their minds: The Thistlegorm shipwreck. A dive here is like visiting a living museum, frozen in time at the bottom of the ocean. “The lure of this adventurous dive is the drama of its demise, the content of its cargo and the historical significance,” says Kean, who wrote the book SS Thistlegorm: World War Two’s Greatest Shipwreck, this British supply ship was bombed while en route to Suez, and it stayed on the seafloor untouched until it was rediscovered by Jacques Cousteau and his calypso crew in 1955. Today, advanced divers can swim through the holds to explore the cargo (Bedford trucks, motorcycles, racks of rifles and more) that’s still packed in the ship.

Ras Mohammed National Park: At the far southern end of the Sinai, the rocky headland known as Ras Mohammed juts into the Red Sea, and since 1983, both the land and the ocean around it has been protected as Ras Mohammed National Park. Here, the purple anemone–draped walls of Shark Reef plunge vertically into thousands of feet of clear water, offering a look at some of the healthiest and best-preserved reefs in the region. From this point experienced divers can catch a current for a heart-thumping underwater ride all the way to fish-packed Yolanda Reef. “Ras Mohammed is where the open expanse of the Red Sea begins,” Kean says. “And this makes for exceptional marine life.” As divers drift with the flow, they may pass towering schools of snapper, tornadoes of barracuda and occasionally, behemoth manta rays and whale sharks.

Hidden dive sites

Boat trips from the dive docks of Sharm El Sheikh regularly run to spots farther afield, like Tiran, Ras Mohammed and the Thistlegorm , but there are also dozens of dive sites tucked within coves just a few minutes from the Resort. Sites like Ras Nasrani and Ras Gamilla are calm and shallow enough for snorkellers and beginning divers, and they feature sprawling coral gardens packed with the region’s signature schools of bright orange anthias. “Near Four Seasons we can also reach the massive, 500-foot-long [150-metre] wreck of the “Million Hope” ,” Kean says, “where divers interested in off-piste diving can see a rarely explored, modern-day shipwreck.”

Radical reefs, no boat ride required

If the water were drained away, the Red Sea along Sharm El Sheikh would look a lot like the Grand Canyon, with ledges and sharp walls dropping vertically within yards of the land’s edge. That means both divers and snorkellers can explore incredible reefs right from the shore, without taking a boat ride. “Much of Sharm’s coastline is drop-off waterfront, and we can access the reefs from floating walkways, jetties and—in a few places—from the beach, to be instantly treated to colourful coral and fish life,” Kean says. One popular spot for diving from the shore is Sharks Bay. Here, divers and snorkellers of any experience level can wade into the calm waters to wind through a maze of coral heads and watch for strange creatures like cuttlefish and ornate ghost pipe fish.

Sharm El Sheikh Map

info about Sharm El Sheikh :

• Sharm El Sheik airport

• Ras Muhammad

surely you will enjoy your visit to Sharm El Sheikh, where you will find every thing you need whether for recreation or snorkeling or diving where you will finally get the peace of mind in the city of peace.