One of the best places to dive close to Sharm el Sheikh in Egypt is the Straits of Tiran. The Straits of Tiran offers great water for rather deep drift dives but also some great water for snorkels if there isn’t to big waves.
The Straits of Tiran is known for both having manta rays, different kinds of sharks and whale sharks, but it highly depend of the season and some luck what you really end up seeing there.
On this August trip back in 2006 it wasn’t the big stuff that I saw.
Snorklers at Staits of Tiran
I still find the wreck position on the reef sort of beautiful and interesting – it looks cool, but the feeling of that big ship crashing into the reef does of course feel bad… smashing so much of the reef… but it’s a great picture or?
Me coming up of the water after a nice drift dive at the Straits of Tiran
I have already been to Sharm el Sheikh 5 times, but I just cant stop coming back to such a great place for diving… The weather is always nice, I once heard the rumour that it rains not more than 5 days a year and I do really believe thats true… I’ve once experienced rain for around 5 minutes.. not more… it also mean that diving always is great around Sharm el Sheikh… nice sea, LOTS of fishes and sealife, one of best coral reefs in the world and great visibility…
And did I forget to tell that the Red Sea also has one of the best wreck dives? The SS Thistlegorm, a British merchant ship used by the British Navy in World War II, was hit by 2 bombs from 2 German bombers around mid June 1941 and these 2 bombs hit so perfect that SS Thistlegorm went down immediately… nice for us divers, because the SS Thistlegorm is a very well preserved wreck just waiting for divers at around 23-33 meters. I was diving it once and I do plan to dive it again in March…
I’m planning to stay at a hotel (Hilton Sharks Bay) with its own house reef in Sharks Bay, a place I once was diving with a dolphin - such an amazing experience… so I will certainly be snorkling around the reef every day and then some diving… will go at least once to the underwater nationalpark Ras Muhammed and once out to the dive sites at the Straits of Tiran close to Saudi Arabia.
Really looking forward to March!
Bine, Mike and I after diving The Canyon in Dahab, Egypt. 
The Canyon is a very nice beach dive, where you keep your stuff in the shade close to the beach.
The visibility is great (20-30 meters) as many/most places in the Red Sea and the dive is really interesting. The entry to The Canyon is at around 18 meters depth where you can sort of drop into the canyon and the first exit point comes at 30 meters, with the last one down below 40 meters…
Most of The Canyon has some kind of roof with holes in it, so its sort of a mixture of a cave (with light in) and a traditional canyon (but you can only exit through the exit points) - this makes it interesting also in decending towards it where you can see the bubbles going up if anybody is already diving The Canyon.
I can really recommend The Canyon in Dahab - also because Dahab is such a nice and relaxed place.
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