Red Sea (Egypt)
Red Sea (Egypt)
A rift filling slowly with the sea, and reef building on both new shores.
The Red Sea occupies a young tectonic rift between Africa and Arabia, its high salinity and warmth supporting some of the healthiest coral cover left on Earth. Egypt's coast — Sinai, the Straits, Marsa Alam — carries the bulk of the world's Red Sea diving.
Conditions
- Season
- Year-round; mildest March–June and September–November
- Temperature
- About 21–29 °C across the year
- Visibility
- Often 20–40 m
- Entry
- Boat and shore entries; several signature sites carry real current
What this water asks
Buoyancy that stays off the reef and an honest read of current before committing to a wall.
The Blue Heart
Napoleon wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus)
A huge, slow-moving reef fish with a bulging forehead, often curious enough to follow a group of divers for a while before drifting off on its own business.
Atlas sites here
Blue Hole, Dahab
Egypt · Red Sea
Read the guideSS Thistlegorm, Red Sea
Egypt · Strait of Gubal
Ras Mohammed
Egypt · Sinai
Elphinstone Reef
Egypt · Marsa Alam
Presence here
Presence notes appear here once enough divers have logged this water — the same house number the Tide holds everywhere.
Safety first
Every practice here fits entirely inside your existing agency standards and dive plan. Slow, continuous breathing only — never breath-holding, skip-breathing or hypoventilation on scuba. No exercise sits in task-critical phases such as descents, ascents or gas management. Mindful Diving is complementary to, and independent of, SSI, PADI, CMAS and RAID.
Dive this water with a trained practice
MD-1 Mindful Diver™ is studied online and practised on the dives you already make — including this one.