rom Ras Abu Soma to Gamal El Kebir you can dive seven pristine sites rich in coral both on the shallow inside or the outer fringe exposed to the sea offering frequent sightings of big pelagic activity. Further out, Panorama to Abu Kefan offer even more excitement. Ras Abou Soma and Tobia Arbaa. A steep outer wall merges into a 25m plateau adorned with huge and majestic table coral, leading to a superb cave festooned with soft coral and teeming with glassfish. Ras Abu Soma offers common sightings of grey reef, whitetip, leopard and hammerhead sharks with mantas during March and April. Tobia Arbaa is protected in the lee of Ras Abou Soma, several tall and narrow ergs festooned with soft coral rise from a sandy bottom. Clouds of anthias, pufferfish, napoleons and barracuda swim around these beautiful pillars in a scene of underwater splendour. Tobia Arbaa is ideal for the unhurried underwater photographer.
Panorama Reef is the highlight of the Safaga dive sites. Rising from the depths an hour from Safaga this oval shaped reef has a dramatic north plateau and drop-off. This is one of the best drift dives in the Red Sea, with sightings of schooling barracuda, giant trevallies, whitetip, grey reef & silvertip sharks, dolphins and rare encounters with oceanics (longimanus).
Hal Hal can be best described as a dense aquarium. Nourished with almost constant and strong currents and only dived in exceptional weather, two ergs rise from a plateau 3m shy of the surface. The exposed outer ledge plummets to over 100m; this is probably one the most prolific reefs teeming with fish life, an explosion of soft corals and gorgornians. Almost every endemic marine specie in the Red Sea can be seen here and in large numbers, with groupers, snapper, tuna, glassfish, turtles, unicorn fish and pelagic sightings along the drop-off.
Abu Kefan is rated by some as even better than Panorama with impressive schools of huge barracuda that glimmer against the pure blue of the deep. Both its northern plateau and colourful southern erg rise from deep water. An abundance of vividly coloured soft corals and intricate gorgonians set the backdrop to a ballet of numerous and dense fish species..

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