This dive site is just before the corner to Marsa Bereika.
It is a gentle sandy slope with lots of coral pinnacles. Take it nice and slow and have a close look at these pinnacles. Many are home of a cleaning station with cleaner fish and cleaner shrimps.
The bigger fish come her to get themselves groomed.
Take care at the corner the current is most of the time picking up but going around the corner is prohibited as you can see on the sign that is posted on land.
The dive is normally started at the big crack in the rock formation.
About 5 minutes in the dive at around 15 meters you will find a huge table coral standing alone with a nice fan coral attached to it.
After about 15 minutes cruising along the wall you will find a chimney full of glassfish.
At the corner look in to the blue, because you never know.....
After the corner the steep wall changes to a slope with coral boulders.
Look for the smaller stuff like nudibranchs and pipefish, but don't forget the blue for the bigger pelagic fish.
The dive starts at the rock outcrop with the white bird shit marking.
After about 5 minutes under the water you will reach a small cave that can be entered at around 7 meter.
After this cave there is an other little swim through as well as an other cave a little further along.
When you dive along you will find a large coral boulder at around 12 meter covered with soft corals and surrounded by glassfish.
A little further one needs to decide where to go. To follow the sandy alley or to venture out to the satellite reef.
Either way you need to make your way back to the main reef before surfacing.
this dive- site is also accessible by land. in front of the beach you find a large sandy area with lots of garden eels, that have to be approached carefully because they soon disappear if a diver comes close.
This species off garden eels is endemic and Eel garden is the best place to go and see them.
At 35 meter the plateau ends in a steep drop off.The dive leeds you along the plateau end ends close to the reef where the plateau ends.
This dive can be done from land as well as from the shore.
From land the start is through is through a shallow cave that has the entrance on the reef plate.
From the boat you will start the dive most of the time from the second balcony.
Sharks Observatory is a steep wall covered with soft corals. Some crevices make this dive very interesting.
Between the corals you cn find all the small creatures like pipefish and nudibranches.
Keep also your eye on the blue as big stuff may be passing by.
Also turtle are often seen on this dive.
This dive- site consists of 2 satellite reefs Shark and Yolanda.
The dive- site is world famous and is one of the five best rated dive- sites in the world.
During the summer months the reefs are visited by big swarms of snapper, batfish, jacks and barracuda. This also attracts the predators like sharks.
But the reefs have also very nice coral gardens and yolanda has the left overs of the wreckage of the Yolanda ship.
The yolanda carried everything that one needs to equip a bathroom, so you can find toilets, bathtubs tubes and lots more.
The current on this dive- site can be strong and it can only be done drift diving from a boat.
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