RAS MOHAMMED

Park is situated at the south tip of Sinai, famous for its breath-taking walls rich in soft and fan corals and populated with huge shoals of fish. In 1983 the Egyptian government approved the establishment of Ras Mohammed National Park. The coast is totally deserted, with no shelter, for more than a mile. The eastern coast is composed of a tall fossil coral reef that is interrupted for a few dozen meters by the only accessible beach.

A menagerie of pelagics can be seen here, including hammerheads and gigantic tuna. An ever present school of barracuda and snappers are residents of Ras Mohammed and it's a great place for scuba divers to see Napoleon wrasse.

The other side, facing the west, is much shallower and constitutes part of the plateau that surrounds Yolanda Reef. There are literally thousands of jackfish, batfish and all kinds of sting rays, giant moray eels and lyretail hogfish on the densely coralled saddle. Watch out for scorpionfish, rarely seen on the other dive sites but regularly spotted here.

Finish your dive above the wreckage of the 'Yolanda', a wreck that made this reef its final resting place in the 70's. Its cargo of British standard toilets, bath tubs and pipe tubes remain on and forever as part of the shallow reef. You can enjoy the humorous sight of so many toilets on the sea floor!